How to memorize BRAILLE
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Have you ever wondered how people learn Braille? Today, Paul is going to share all of the memorization tips that helped him learn the 26 different letters of the alphabet! Paul also shares some information about the history of Braille, as well as his experience learning how to “read” it with his fingertips.
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V looks like a vacuum
OMG YESSS!! I’m so excited 😆
@@MatthewandPaulOfficialHaha! Yes!! 👏 I also thought this looked like a vacuum cleaner but wasn’t sure enough people used upright vacuum cleaners like this anymore so didn’t suggest it! (Also my vacuum cleaner looks more like a robot to me coz it has a face! 😂)… BUT! Now I love the idea of vacuum cleaner V ‘hoovering up’ most of the other letters in the Braille alphabet!!
My mind went to vacuum as well.
Watched your video as soon as it came out. My grandson was playing on the floor, I didn't think he was paying attention. But he just brought me my 12 hole muffin tin and said, "Gran how are we going to do our braille with this. There are too many holes!". He was able to repeat alot if what you said Paul. You are an excellent teacher. Now I have to go to Walmart and get a six hole muffin pan. And some tennis balls. See what you started!
Oh my goodness!! My heart is full!
I am 50, and now I am trying to think of an excuse to learn braille. 😂
You’re a born teacher!
Naughty Elephants Squirt Water!
I learned Never Eat Soggy Waffles
@@moonloversheila8238For me it was “Never Eat Shredded Wheat”.
I’m 40 and still use that, lol.
I’m hearing impaired and learning the letters in sign is a lot like learning in braille … it’s a new skill that most people are never exposed to. Back in the 1960’s, I took the school bus with a few blind kids and they were always reading from these THICK books… fascinating! They also had a braille typewriter thin their classrooms.. what an invention that is! Thanks Paul, for such a great braille lesson..😀
My blind friend taught me Grade 1 Braille a few years ago. I started to get into Grade 2 but it was tough and I gave up. I can also sort of make out Braille with my fingers. My friend gifted me an index card slate and stylus set to keep practicing. It’s really fun to learn. 😊
I found that using a good algorithm for repeating the lesson helps. Thus, you do lesson 1 earlier in the day and then repeat it later on in the day. I would review this on day 2 as well, twice at least. Then the following day or day after, you do lesson 2. Then you repeat lessons 1 and 2 and don't start anything new that week. Reviewing twice a day, really helps cement the learning in the brain. I would only add one new lesson a week after this, but keep reviewing everything learnt at least once per day. And I'd even add a couple weeks of nothing new and just reviewing. Best wishes! Slow and Steady wins the race faster than putting everything into short term memory.
My mom is legally blind and did start learning Braille as well. If I remember correctly, she got up to Grade 3 Braille and even won a trip to Chicago for being the best student in her class.
I loved the Shorts on recognising the Braille alphabet. Paul is a good teacher ❤
Writing braille backwards sounds very fascinating. It must take much energy after so much concentration.
I think it's easier if you don't think about them as being flipped or as having a left side and a right side. Better to think of the direction your hand is moving and how e.g. the dots go up or down etc as your hand goes 'forward'.
Never eat sour wheat
Super clever way to show and learn. I live in France and I swear I see/feel more Braille here. On my health card, which is called la carte vitale, there is a letter V in the corner. Prescriptions come in boxes with Braille on the box!
literally went to grab my box of medicines to practise all of this ahahhaha
I had a professor in university who was blind, and his binder that he read his notes from was GIGANTIC. Now I know why. He held it against his body so he could use both hands to read, and now I understand why!
He had no vision, and it was the only class I ever took that I would occasionally put my head down on my desk during the lecture...
You 3 make me happy. Our world needs more people like you!❤️
I love that all your (alone) videos are genuine. You keep all the flubs and incidents in. Thank you for the Braille lesson and history lesson. I would love to learn more! ❤❤❤
P.S.: Maple being sassy over not getting dinner....needs to be a comic 😅😂
Braille was one of the hardest things I have ever learned. You did an awesome job showing the alphabet and your memorizing tips were adorable.
my sentence to remember the directions is a german one: "Nie Ohne Seife Waschen" which translates to "Never wash without soap", learned that at some point in my childhood and have used it ever since 😄
Jop, that's the german language alright, also grew up with that, it's so easy to memorize - cheers from Austria
I Manage a retirement apartment complex. We recently had a lady move in who has limited vision. I am amazed by all the gadgets she has.
Actually, watching your videos the last year has helped me a lot understanding her needs.
Hi from England, Paul I am a 71 year old lady and always wanted to learn the Braille alphabet but failed miserably using dots and gave up. At midnight I was about to sleep when I saw this video. I thought I’d try again to learn it with your visual technique. Wide awake and 20 mins later I had consolidated it ‼️ next day I bought a patty dish and small balls and going to teach my grandkids.
I’m so happy Thank you ❤ love you guys and Mr.Maple
I always use Never Eat Shredded Wheat Xx
My great aunt went blind from glaucoma at a young age, but she loved to write poetry. She had a braille typewriter she taught me how to use, it was really cool. It punched the letters into paper as you went along and seemed to be much quicker than a stylus. I remember it only having maybe 8 keys or so in total which blew my young little mind lol.
OMG, thank you so much for this video! Paul, you explain everything so well and in a very fun way, I think I have already memorized like ten letters. I have wanted to learn braille and sign language for a long time and I think the universe is telling me to do it. I'm going to start learning braille with this video as soon as my winter vacation starts ❤ (it's winter here because I'm from South America, so it will be soon). Paul, you could be an amazing teacher if you wanted to be. Thanks again for doing this, love you guys!!
I do know Grade 1 and 2 Braille. I was taught it in Middle and High School and use it almost everyday.
Braille Academy has a free app. I just downloaded. Thank you I am going to finally learn Braille before I go completely blind!
Learn all the braille Paul. I was in Seattle at the Monaco last week and tried reading the braille on the elevator. It was so fun to get some right. Your happy voice was in my head as I worked on it. I almost expected you to walk out with Mr Maple!
Thank you for sharing this with us, it's so interesting 😍
As for North, South,East and West as well as Never Eat Shredded Wheat I also learnt N- Naughty
E- Elephants
S- Splash
W- Water
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I was taught "Never Eat Soggy Weetbix", but at the time I actually enjoyed soggy Weetbix, so now I use "Never Use Slimy Worms".
A very long time ago - when I "attempted" to take piano lessons (I say attempted because I was not very good at it) - my piano teacher was blind. Yep, I am being honest, he was 💯 percent blind. At that time, I was quite young, in college, and newly married. That was a long time ago -- but the one thing I will never forget is being taught piano by a blind teacher. The man was brilliant. And I'll never forget how he used to fiddle around with my wedding band as I played the piano, spinning it around, running his fingers over my diamond engagement ring💍 I thought it might be insulting to ask him why, so I never did; but as time went on I found myself looking forward to my lessons and having him spin my rings around my finger. Somehow, I thought that it was something he needed to do: 1) to keep himself entertained while I played the piano terribly 🤷 or, 2) it was somehow a built-in mechanism? I know for myself, I suffer from chronic pain, and I tend to rock back-and-forth at times to self-soothe: when I'm going through a tough flare-up, when I'm just standing still, or to go to sleep at night. No matter why he did it, I will never forget him as long as I live.
I learned braille at university as a sighted student so I could braille things for students that read braille. It was the mid 90s so no voice messages or texts, just pen and paper notes on our doors! Took about twelve weeks to learn grade 2 sighted. I also learned how to read braille by touch, just so I could really appreciate the challenge. Took months, and I am very slow. I can discriminate the individual cell patterns quickly, but my dyslexia means that it takes time to work out what the string of letters and contractions are saying. I learned to read using 'look and say' whole word recognition and learning braille actually helped me learn to spell!
The braille writing frame is like learning a whole new language as it is backwards. I don't know many who use it. The Perkins brailler was given to most braille learners in the UK in the 90s. Technology is so different now. Even in the 90s there was an electronic braille note taker.
My career went in a different direction and has changed lots in the last 30 years. I no longer use braille regularly, but I try to keep my basic skills.
I had a couple of friends in college who were completely blind. One of them showed me his Braille typewriter. It was basically 6 keys plus a space bar. It punched from the back to the front so that he could type left to right. Also there was a "preview" feature where he would type some letters and pins would pop up. He would read the pins with his fingers then touch the button that printed it into the paper. So he basically alternated typing a couple of words and printing a couple of words until he got through the whole composition. You had to press the keys simultaneously, like on a stenography machine. That was a long time ago...I imagine that, now that everyone has a computer, you could use a normal (or Braille) keyboard and a Braille printer, and that the software could read it back to you so that you can check for mistakes.
Thank you for this video. I thoroughly enjoyed it! In a way, Braille reminds me of Morse Code. I had to learn that years ago in order to get my amateur radio license. It's no longet required, but I still love the "language".
My dad has ( I don't remember the name of it ) the opposite of what Paul has. Dad can see a little bit, but only in the peripheral vision, as all of his sharp vision is gone. He took a class to learn Braille. He figured that if he tilted the page slightly, he could use his eyes and read the braille writing. Teacher didn't like that and turned the lights off.
Thank you Paul for a great and very educational video
This Video is Brilliant. 👏 I often wished I could read the braille on packaging and it is on the boxes of my medicines, so I am definitely going to try reading them. Thank you Paul. Love all 3 of you.
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Glad it was helpful!
When I saw N, I thought “never” from the way never is signed in American sign. (your lays flat palm side down and draw a giant seven)
My friend is blind, I wanted to braille short messages for her, it was … complicated. So I made a braille writing aid out of a square “pop it” by cutting it in half. Here is how it works, set the two halves side by side, arranging the braille dots as you would read them. Then flip them over (your raised dots will be your indents) punch out your “indents” on a braille slate. Then flip your paper over to reveal your message.
When I got engaged, I added braille to my friend’s wedding invitation, while my mom read off the information. My friend was so happy that she could her read her invitation.
You always put so much joy and optimism in your videos! Love love love how much you remind everyone to have compassion and grace for yourself, too, especially when you're learning something new. Love that it's always an adventure! xx
Thank you so much!!
For the directions, you can also use the word NEWS if you go in a sort of lightening bolt way⚡but opposite. I also think that news is called news because it tells you about your surroundings you know north, east, west and south. I don't know if it's a true fact but I like to think it.
7:41 as a german person i remember the sky directions as "Nie ohne Seife waschen" (Never wash without soup) or "Nie ohne Schuhe wandern" (Never hike without shoes) (east -> ost).
I would love more videos of braille! 💛
You are such an excellent teacher and so fun to listen to 😊 Thanks for this!
Thank you! Very informative and finally understand what all the dots mean. Awesome video, please keep them coming.
Years ago, when I was a boy in Washington DC, the "Joy Boys" were a popular radio duo: Ed Walker and Willard Scott. They were hilarious, and they were on every evening. Walker was blind, though they never said a word about it on the radio. I got to watch a live broadcast and Walker was amazing. He was reading the text he was saying into the microphone with his right hand while he searched through the big notebook with his left to find the next ad or comment he was supposed to do. Reading two things at the same time!
It worked great! And so fast! I’ll keep testing myself every few days anyway. Thank you Paul
Better then my teacher!! 💯💯💯
I wish I had had this video when I was learning Braille. How fun!
Very interesting! I had a couple blind friend back in the early 90s. I was always curious.
Im sighted but genuinly curious.
This is fascinating. We had one lesson on Braille in school, in RE of all subjects, and it gave me the impression that we should pity the blind instead of accepting them. My adopted son, who was born with bilateral coloboma, has had no help at all in Braille or any other useful skill. From experience, it's been dependent on postcode and then piecemeal at best here in Britain how the blind are treated, which unfortunately paints our nation in a poor light. We could do better. So glad you have these crucial services in your area.
This reminds me of when i was helping my boyfriend study for his programming exam and i was coming up with the most outlandish ways to remember things. And as weird as they were, they helped 😂
As soon as I saw this video came out I was so excited because I remembered asking for a full vid on braille on one of your shorts a little while ago. Thank you so much! Love ur content! ❤
As someone who works with VI students this will be fun to share with my team and students. I can visually read braille levels 1&2 and I'm working on Nemeth and music. I've only been doing this for a year so I'm a bit slow when typing it. I use a Braille writer (type writer) not a stylus though so I don't have to write backwards.
I would love to be able to get that chat with the braille letters and numbers. do you know how I could get one? My friend is blind, I'm trying to understand her world a bit better, so your videos are very useful. The major difference is your loss is total and happened suddenly.
Please illustrate this for your next book! It would be absolutely darling in your style :)
I saw this on a post and clicked the link of the video just like "hmm..why not?" Then once the teaching begun, I didn't expect it to be that quite enjoyable lol. It's like watching a bleepy episode with my niece lmao😂 Fun and knowledgeable!
N is at the top and then going line by line you spell from left to right on each row to make W E S (T).
The lifts at work go from the ground floor and then 31 to 46 but the floor buttons have the numbers in Braille underneath. So I hope Paul can teach us more so I can check the lifts. 😁
I would love to learn more about your braille. My only vision issue is that I have to wear glasses to read, so I’m quite fortunate.
Matthew I need some advice
7 years ago I met my best friend she has a disability. But still I help her. She cannot speak I have learned to understand her.
I have never even heard of the braille alphabet until I started watching you guys. I love how well you guys get along. But let’s be real Mr maple is the real star.
Paul, you're so wonderful. You make learning Braille fun with your mnemonic tips! I want to continue learning! And Maple is a great teacher's aide! ❤
When I was a kid mom took me to someplace called Lighthouse for free Sign Language class's and Braille class'. I remember more from ASL but you bringing back memory I think I remember about a 3rd of the Braille letters. TY for the lessons.
I have a good memory and i learned a lot of braille letters from the 2 shorts you posted!
I have low vision but have enough vision that i don't need braille but i want to learn the letters and treat it as a memory game!
If you played tennis as a kid i suggest you try blind and visually impaired tennis!!! You can check it out and contact the US representative.
Hi I'm Abdullah from India and I have low vision due to retinopathy of prematurity
Learning braille was fun :D
Yay!!
I’m learning Braille right now. I’ve learned the alphabet and numbers by sight but just now putting it into practice.
Things to your video I'm not so scared about learning Braille I know I will eventually have to know it as I too have vision limitations. Post a poll and see how many people would love this to be a new series that you continue with we'd love to join you in your journey as it's best when you have support from others so we can encourage each other to keep on going.❤❤❤❤
Thank you for your insights on blindness. Your videos are so much fun to watch.
This is the most genius way the learn braille! I❤ this!! ❤ from South Florida!
I would love to see more videos on braille!! ❤
This is fascinating. Absolutely loved how and what you’ve taught us. Would love more please xxxxx
I use Never Eat Sour Wieners. There was another Never Eat that we used as a kid, but i can't remember it. I just know that none of the ones you said were familiar. Also, you need to turn this into a book with all your cute illustrations.
I love this lesson in thinking after I do my regular things in going to try to learn this! I'd love to learn all this with you teaching any blind tips.
Very helpful when I write my book because its going to be written and tactile with braille too
I Love these memorizing examples ❤
Lovely Family!!!! Always!!!!
Great mnemonics! Since you are fairly certain that eventually you will have zero vision, it might be a good idea to continue to work on your Braille reading ability!
I love that you are able to teach the basics to new learners!
This is amazing! And a Very easy way to learn braille without feeling overwhelmed with the thoughts of " I can't learn this", would it be possible for you to make more content like this? While watching the video I thought about buying books in braille to see how I do it, thank you so much for this video!!
Nice! I’m not blind or deaf but I have had an interest in learning things like sign language and the “dot language” as I called it since I had no clue what they were called before now. From your visual teaching just now, I think I can remember maybe half of the braille or a little more than half. I would love to learn more since you made learning them simple and fun.
As for the directional words, I remember it by right first; meaning north, south, east, west = up, down, right, left.
Thank you for the lesson. It was very interesting
Love the mnemonics! Thank you for the lesson. I hope you share more. BTW it’s never eat shredded wheat for me
Thanks Paul
Another great live
for right-hand drive you could also think of D as pointing to the driver's seat in the car
This was AWESOME!!! Thank you so very much for taking the time to teach us.
For V. Instead of the left 3 dots being a wall. 3 dots are a mountain and the bottom dot is in a valley.
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire taught me and millions of people when we were kids!
7:50 I remember these by "Nie ohne Seife Waschen" which is german for "Never wash without soap".
Edit: forgot to mention, the directions are "Norden Osten Süden Westen" in german
You are quite simply flipping awesome! You are an amazing teacher, such fun, I found your tutorial so interesting and yes please, more about braille please! ❤❤❤🏆🥇
I know W as: Never Eat Slimy Worms. I loved all the ones you said as well.
If I remember right, the z in cursive looks like an extra curvy 2 with a bump after it? 🤔 That kinda makes sense for the braille version "looking like a z".
Very random, I know, but yeah, still no idea why they did that.
Thank you for your amazig video's and personality! I love your humor! My best friend has about 5% vision and has the same sort of humor and self-irony as you do, which makes it so easy to enjoy his company and find things we can do together. Also the guide dog helps him a lot to move more freely in this world. Happy to see it serves you so well too!
For 'v' I immediately thought of Louis Vuitton 😉
This is actually really cool! I went and immediately took a braille quiz after watching this once and got 40% right, so if i watch again knowing my mistakes i could actually get it down!
Of the 4 arrow letters the two that are pointing down to look like thier lower case letters : h and j. (down lower case)
The braille the Z is the same shape as an N - it has just been flipped upside down.. In print just push over a capital N and you have a Z.
Or you sleep (zzzz) at home and the braille character looks like half a house
The Y nemonic doesn't click for me....still searching for that
Very interesting video, Paul. Please do some more like this?
PAUL: YOU MUST READ THIS!!! When I was in college in the 70s, I knew a blind person named Greg. When he and his friend would go out to dinner, the waitress would always approach his friend and ask him what he wanted to order. Then she would say, "And what would your friend like to order?" This happened all the time. Anyone could tell Greg was blind just by looking at him. One day, they went to another restaurant and the same thing happened. This time, Greg was the first one to speak. He said to the waitress, "I'm sorry but my friend is deaf. I will tell you what he would like to order." The expression on her face was priceless. This story needs to reinforce the fact that all of us are human with feelings that can be hurt. Cheers!
👏 Yay! I love this so much! You’re such an excellent teacher Paul!! ❤️ I especially love your moooing🐮 and questioning yourself, Ok?! Right?! and all the clever little punny mnemonics! It all helps us remember them even better! (I have to say, junior J and periscope for P are very good, aren’t they?! 😉 Hehe!). I finally thought of a mnemonic or two for those pesky Q and V letters and I’ve put them in my comment on your Patreon post, if you’re curious! I wish they were better but they’re tricky ones, aren’t they?! Thanks again for this fun vid! Now you and Matthew can bake some Braille Buns and eat your way through some of the Braille alphabet with each muffin! ❤️
Sam! THANK YOU for your brilliant contributions! I will always remember Periscope and Junior J!! ❤️❤️❤️
@@MatthewandPaulOfficial Nerd Every Single Word! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Hey Paul I know you guys have been to Canada at least once based on your Mr Maple short, but did you know that we have Braille on our money? (I'm like 95% sure of this) Speaking of which, I think you'd like our currency, there are plenty of cool designs, and our coins have animals and other pictures too. Anyways, just wanted to say that this was a really helpful video, keep it up!
3 minutes in and my brain shut off 😂😂😂. I always say that sign languages are the hardest for me. I wonder if there's a correlation.
I admire you tremendously ❤
What IF, something happened to the world, where all ability of our technology stop existing!
It would behove to at least learn all grades of braille.
I don’t know that’s just my thoughts 😊
Be well and stay happy ❤❤❤❤❤
Luv you Mr. Maples 🐕
That's a cool way to teach braille. Apparently, it's way easier than remembering finger spelling of the alphabet (which I have also done). Also, the compass I learned as "never eat sour watermelons."
It’s so COOL that you thought to share this with us! 😘
I found this video super interesting!! I have a child in my class who is visually impaired so I'm excited to learn more about it 😊
I have two ways "never eat slimy word" or another one is: generally north and south are easy to remember in terms of position. I only ever really get confused with West and east, so I remember them just by spelling out the word "we". My gran also learnt the opposite growing up so she uses "now we shall eat"
Even though we have all of this technology, I would always suggest learning Braille; computers do break down.
I have the story of Louis Braille in book at home, and it's really one of my favourites. I wish there were contents like this for the others disabilities!
Also, do you think braille can be improved?
Ozon Layer woooooow you are the best in letters 🎉
Not only actually
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Fabulous tutorial mate. Interesting and very well explained. Love your work.
So glad it made sense!!
I have three children that are deaf. One of the most asked questions I get asked, "Is it hard to learn braille?"
Of course I say that braille is for the blind, not the deaf and they go, "Oh, that's right!"
I would think it's about the same time and practice to learning braille as it is to learn sign.
I would love to know braille, maybe I'll learn it at some point 🤔
I'm sighted, but decided to learn braille just for fun. There's an app you can get for your phone to drill the letters and there's a free online course you can take, also. I'm probably at about 1.5 grade - I know the letters & numbers and have been working on punctuation.
For V it reminds me of the song L-o-v-e by Frank Sinatra.
It was so fun watching your video and how you explained each letter.
I always go with never eat soggy waffles classic😂 I love watching you teach and laugh at your quirky little things to remember thank you I did enjoy that
In swedish west is väst and left is vänster. The west is in the same direction as the similar word is pointed.
I didn't need anything to remember north and south, for some reason I learned them immediately. So that means the one left over is east 😝