[nabs-l] grade 3 braille

[Loren Wakefield]

T does come in handy.  I know some of it, and my wife knows quite a bit.
There use to be a course from Hadley that you could take and learn grade
III.  

Loren 



-----Original Message-----
From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Carly Mihalakis
Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 1:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] grade 3 braille


Hi, Sami,

         Grade 3 is even more deeply contracted than is Grade 2  and is used
primarily for personal correspondence and notetaking purposes. Learn it if
you can!
for today, Car
408-209-3239

as far as I know is used for personal correspondence and notetaking  a syAt
06:23 PM 2/3/2014, David Andrews wrote:
>Grade 3 Braille has lots of abbreviations.  It is basically a Braille 
>shorthand.  There aren't a lot of teaching materials, and nothing 
>regularly printed in it.  It was never widely used.
>
>Dave
>
>At 07:45 PM 2/3/2014, you wrote:
>>Hi All.
>>
>>I am creating this topic further to Dave's post about NFB training 
>>centers, who said that he learned Grade 3 Braille in those  centers.
>>I didn't want to post this in that topic so as not to go off-topic.
>>So I would like to know, could someone try to explain how this works? 
>>Because to be honest, this is the first time that I'm hereing about 
>>it.  Was this only discovered recently? Does it have, say, more 
>>contractions then grade 2 braille uses?
>>I'm sure that I'll be able to understand your explanations about it, 
>>because I have been using braille for quite a long time (since I was 
>>in kindergarten, and now I'm in 11th grade).  I don't think I've 
>>learned grade 2 braille when I first sttted to learn braille, but I 
>>have been using grade 2 braille for as long as I can remember, and am 
>>therefore very good at it, if I say so myself.
>>Not only that, but I just finished the course on Braille music at my 
>>music school.
>>I hope you'll be able to explain how Grade 3 Braille works.
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Sami.
>
>
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