A Small Update on the German Front

In a further communication to me, my librarian told me that the audio is farther along than is the Braille, which was contracted out to another company. I never would have thought that audio production was faster than Braille.

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  1. I found out today while looking on BARD that Behind the Wheel, the title of the coming German course, is also written for other languages as well. I saw level 3 in Spanish.

  2. Reading helps me know how exactly a word is spelled, but it is much more useful when learning English compared to German. So I suppose listening alone would be mostly sufficient for me to learn German or any other language in which I can predict how a word is spelled when I hear it pronounced.

  3. In order for me to learn a foreign language it is better that I have both audio and Braille together. Reading physical Braille helps me learn, or that’s the way I learned what I did in French when I was in high school. The audio help with pronunciation of course and reinforces what I read. I can only hope for better results in German than what I’m having so far.

    I would think there would be more work for audio editing and such, mistakes or whatever, plus, DAISY has special qualifications for pauses in paragraphs, chapters and such.

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