[nabs-l] question concerning Spanish 1 class

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I absolutely abhore realspeak solo, it sounds like a reporter from
Telemundo with a real bad, bad cold.

On 8/26/13, Laurel and Stockard <laurel.stockard at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Kayla,
> You can easily make JAWS speak in Spanish. You can either select one of the
> Spanish voice profiles, save it, and adjust it how you want, or you can
> download a realspeak solo direct voice from freedom scientific's website and
> use that. It's very doable. I can't help you with the pac mate stuff, but I
> know 6 languages and successfully use JAWS/voiceover both in my language
> use.
> Hope this helps
> Laurel
> On Aug 26, 2013, at 3:03 PM, Mary Fernandez wrote:
>
>> Kayla,
>> Having taken quite a number of foreign courses, I'm a big believer in
>> Braille, particularly when you are starting. For assignments, you can
>> either copy and paste the assignment questions into Word, if that's
>> possible, and import them into your Packmate that way, and just type
>> up your answers on the online assignment. I don't have a packmate so
>> cannot help with the Braille display connectivity, but I'm sure
>> someone here will. For tests you can either ask for an electronic copy
>> and ask the professor how confortable they are with you taking it
>> using your packmate, or get a Braille hard copy. If you can do it on
>> your own, I strongly recommend that you do instead of getting a
>> reader. It's important to learn spelling, syntax, grammar, and
>> pronunciation, and with a brand new language these might be lost if
>> someone is just reading to you.
>>
>> Best of luck!
>> Mary
>>
>> On 8/26/13, Kayla Weathers <brailleprincess at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> I’m taking a Spanish 1 class this semester in college and was curious
>>> as to the strategies that other blind students have used to be
>>> successful in foreign language courses. I have a Braille copy of the
>>> textbook and from what I have seen thus far, there doesn’t seem to be
>>> that many differences in Spanish and English Braille. The professor
>>> posts the majority of the assignments, quizzes, and tests for the
>>> course   online.  I know it is possible to configure JAWS to speak in
>>> Spanish, and have considered trying this to complete the online
>>> assignments however, since I have had no prior experience with Spanish
>>> I’m not sure how effective that particular strategy will prove to be.
>>> I’ve also considered the option of using a reader to complete the
>>> assignments. I was also wondering how to configure the Pacmate qx 400,
>>> so that I will be able to use it to complete assigned work in Spanish?
>>> Thanks, Kayla
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Mary Fernandez
>> "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will
>> forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them
>> feel."
>> —
>> Maya Angelou
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