[nabs-l] Learning Braille

[jonathan franks]

I am not sure if this has been mentioned or not. If you need help
remembering the numerous dot positions or contractions, you can try
the numerous braille aps that are available like pocket braille.

Hope this helps

Jonatahn

On 9/8/14, Arielle Silverman via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I don't know if Hadley is available in India. But your Braille Note is
> a great teaching tool. You can also use it to read documents in Grade
> 1 Braille.
> Arielle
>
> On 9/8/14, Karl Martin Adam via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> As others have said, Hadley is a good resource.  Your notetaker
>> could be useful too because you can set it to display in
>> contracted or uncontracted Braille, and if you have it set to
>> contracted Braille it will uncontract things you put your curser
>> on, so you can find out what unfamiliar contractions mean very
>> easily.
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Rahul Bajaj via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
>> Date sent: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 17:14:33 +0530
>> Subject: [nabs-l] Learning Braille
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Even though I can use assistive technology fairly well, I think
>> Braille would be immensely useful for me in several contexts. At
>> this
>> stage, I only know the basics i.e. how letters/punctuation
>> marks/numbers are spelled in Braille; I don't know any
>> contractions
>> and cannot read large chunks of text In Braille.
>> Unfortunately, there are no Braille instructors in my town who
>> are as
>> proficient in the English language as I'd like them to be, so I
>> need
>> to figure out an efficacious way for learning Braille on my own.
>> What
>> techniques should I adopt for attaining this goal?
>> Would devices like the Braille Note be of any use from the
>> standpoint
>> of learning Braille?
>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>>
>> Best,
>> Rahul
>>
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