[nabs-l] Learning a foreign language

[Nijat Worley]

Greetings Nabsters,
   Speaking of learning a foreign language, I am also going to be learning a foreign language this Faull and I need some advice from anyone that can give me some suggestions. I will be learning Russian. I went and downloaded the Russian voice for Real Speek Solo, and it works great. If I change my keyboard layout to Russian, and type in the Russian language, the Real Speak Solo voice reads the text in the Russian language for me. This is great, but for some strange reason it does not read Russian websites in Russian. I think JAWS has an automatic language recognition feature that should recognize the Russian language, and switch to it at once. Do any of you know why JAWS is not reading the websites in Russian?
   I am also trying to find the international Braille code so that I can learn Russian Braille. I understand that they use the same Braille as we do, however, they have more letters in their alphabet than we do, so some of our contractions become letters in their language. Does anywon know where I can get a hard Braille copy of the international Braille code, or the Braille code in Russian? I called the American Printing House for the Blind, and they did not have anything for me. Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.
   Thank you very much.
   Yours
   Nijat