[optacon-l] Re: Reading languages
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:31:42 -0600
Hi Dan!
That's a shame you had to give up your Optacon when you went to college,
not having it to use in Russian class.
I took a ten-week Russian class through adult education. I took my Optacon
to class and read when it was my turn. The Cyrillic alphabet isn't
difficult to read with the Optacon.
Debby
At 06:16 PM 1/26/2013, Dan Tevelde wrote
>I remember reading Spanish books in high school and was able to tell what
>accent marks look like. That's something I can't do now even though I can
>read the special characters on Braille displays. I had to return my optacon
>to the government when I went to college so I wasn't able to use it in
>Russian class. This was a shame since I couldn't get any accurate
>information about Russian Braille.
>At least there is some promising research going on to create tablets to
>display graphics. Look at the January 2013 issue of AccessWorld and read
>what the DAISY Consortium is doing to make refreshable Braille available to
>more people. This also includes access to graphics which relates to what a
>new type of optacon could do.
>
>Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:optacon-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>On Behalf Of Tracy Carcione
>Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 8:22 AM
>To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [optacon-l] Reading languages
>
>Hi Dan! Nice to see you here.
>I have used my Optacon to read French, Spanish, and Japanese. The only
>thing I couldn't read very well was the Chinese characters used in Japanese,
>because they tend to have a lot of tiny bits in them that are hard to
>distinguish, but make a big difference in the meaning.
> From your description, reading Vietnamese should be pretty straightforward,
>similar to reading French.
>Tracy
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