French Braille

I am Living In Australia, I am Blind, I am Looking For Books In Braille For Learning The French Language, And Also I Want Harry Potter In French Braille, One More Thing, I Want To Know Whether There is A Cellular Phone For Blinds In Australia and From Where I Can Bring All This? Thanks

if your are a blind dude, how in the fuck did you type this question, and go to the internet and find yahoo answers....how in the hell are you gonna read our answers?!?!

2007-11-04 21:47:05 by nadercorner

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I mean, they all have accent marks and stuff, so how do they express that in braille? Or do they have a different system of writing for the blind. Thanks!

I don't know the specifics, since I can't read or write in Braille, but the inventor was a Frenchman, Louis (IIRC) Braille, so I'm sure there is a way to indicate accents.

2008-12-07 16:15:39 by Miles

so we have letters 1-26 in the english languages in braille. how about for non english languages? ie. french or german with additional letters like c with the comma thing underneath it or o with 2 dots over it. or how about chinese, japanese, thai, arabic etc?

Every language has its own Braille system. Look up DUXBURY - they do Braille in all languages.

2010-01-31 08:42:58 by  

I have to just do a bit of info about him and Edith Piof... but mostly Louis Braille for French class =) Help much appreciatted

Louis Braille
1809-1852
Educator & Inventor of the Braille Alphabet

Louis Braille was born in the French town of Coupvray, near Paris on January the 4th, 1809. His father, Simon René Braille, was a harness maker and was married to Monique. Louis often played in his fathers workshop, unaware of the dangers of the sharp tools his father used in his profession. While playing, he stabbed in his eye with an instrument used to punch holes in leather. The wound wasn't very serious, but it infected and spread out to the other eye. At the age of 4, he became completely blind.

But Louis was a very bright boy, and with help from his family, he was able to receive a very rich education. He went to a normal school, studying with kids who weren't blind. Despite his handicap, Louis was one of the best students of his class. At the age of ten, Louis went to the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris. The lessons were oral, but there were books available in a raised-print system, invented by Valentin Haüy, the founder of the Royal Institution for Blind Youth in Paris.

His system wasn't very efficient, though: the books contained large, raised letters, which took up alot of room, so the books were very large and heavy. Those books were also very heavy. In general, Louis was a very good student, but he distinguished himself from the others because of his musical talent. He played the piano and the organ.

Louis got the idea for the braille alphabet from a French army captain, Charles Barbier. It was very annoying. Soldiers had to make light before they could read messages, because the enemy could easily spot the light source and use it as a target. So he invented a tactile alphabet, allowing soldiers who knew the code to read & write messages at night, without the need for light. He later saw the usefulness of his invention for blind people, and he adapted his alphabet so it could be used by the blind. His invention was only partly appreciated, but Louis studied and re-invented the alphabet, making it especially handy for blind people. He used the spelling as a basis for the alphabet, instead of the phonetics Barbier used. He also replaced the Barbier's 12-dot cell by a 6-dot cell. Due to his addiction to music, he also customized the Braille system so it could represent music.
In 1829 he published a book, named "Method of Writing Words, Music and Plain Song by Means of Dots, for Use by the Blind and Arranged by Them".

Before his death on January 6, 1852, his system never really got accepted. But the next years, the popularity of the Braille system increased dramatically. People realized the simple but powerful system was the perfect means for blind to read.

Today, the Braille system is the standard reading system blind children learn. People using the Braille system read almost as fast as you are doing right now. --

2009-03-15 22:14:18 by gakalala

i googled it but i cant find
primary sources on when braille was created
i dont mind if the site is in french because i can translate it but it just wont work
can someone also give me peoples reaction to braille in the US when it first came here?????????

In 1824 Louis Braille, a French student and later teacher who was blind himself, invented the system that enables blind persons to read. It was based on the night writing principle of Charles Barbier, a captain in the French cavalry, who used a combination of 12 dots that were embossed, or pressed, into paper to allow military communications to be read at night. Braille's system used six raised dots arranged in cells of three rows of two. Dots were arranged in different combinations that blind people feel with their fingertips. The patterns formed a code that spelled out letters and numbers and symbolized concepts.

Although the Braille system was published in 1829, it was not officially accepted in the United States until 1916. During that time, Braille advocates argued in favor of three different embossed-type systems: English Braille, which closely followed the original French Braille; American Braille, which assigned Braille signs to the letters of the alphabet on the basis of how often each letter was used in the language; and New York Point, in which dots were arranged in cells two dots high and one to four dots long. The United States eventually accepted English Braille as its standard. In 1932 English Braille also became the universal system for the English-speaking world.

Braille was first printed using a pointed sharp instrument that elevated small dots on a sheet of heavy paper. A metal template that clamped over the paper kept it secure while the dots were inscribed by hand. Printing later was done using presses consisting of two stereotype plates, each imprinted with the dots for the Braille text being printed. These dots had to be hammered by hand into the plates or the plates were cast in a custom-designed mold. In 1893 the stereotyping machine was developed, which automated the process of transferring the dots onto the stereotype plates. A further printing innovation was interpoint printing, which enabled Braille to be printed on both sides of a page. It was introduced in the United States in the 1920s. These developments made producing Braille books faster and easier.

In 1858 the American Printing House for the Blind was founded in Louisville, Kentucky, to produce and distribute books to blind children. In 1879 Congress permanently funded this national printing house. It produced its first raised-print book in 1866, in which letters were embossed on the surface of the page, and its first Braille book in 1893. Today publications in Braille are produced using computer programs that translate print into Braille. The files containing the Braille text are sent to electronically driven machines that make the printing plates.

2009-12-30 23:12:53 by anonymous