A guide to the Braille alphabet and numbers, for GDP's birthday. Sharing in case anyone else has the kinds of hobbies and has been wanting to learn Braille.
Sample:
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Clinton's VP was ⠁⠇ Gore.
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Her head is in the clouds; she's in ⠇⠁-⠇⠁-⠇⠁nd.
No, you'd still need to learn punctuation and contractions to really read Braille. Also, feeling the dots is very different from reading them, and I don't have good advice about how to do that.
Doing this was also a way to test out some of my language learning ideas, even though this was just teaching a writing system:
- Make learning about discovery rather than using explicit instruction
- Frequent repetition in a variety of contexts, rather than using static flashcards that get stale fast
- Encourage discovery of meta-patterns and extrapolation to unseen items
Open a Github issue or contact me on Twitter with comments, corrections, questions. I'm @michelleful in both places.