Hello All, Let's keep this thread on point, okay?
I haven't tried using DuoLingo in over a year or so but when I last used the app, I was confronted with photos, only, also. Now again, this was quite some time ago so I will download the app and see what happens; with any luck, I will be able to use the swiping gesture to select from the list of possible choices. What I would really like is an app that would allow me to explore the grammar of the foreign language as well as the vocabulary. I'm hoping that DuoLingo will work with my Braille display so I can at least be certain of how a foreign language word is spelled. If I recall correctly, I attempted to use DuoLingo, last year, to explore Japanese. My Braille display was useless as Duo did not use Romanji (Roman) characters for the Japanese words. Spanish, however, should work well on the Braille display, I hope. Another option that seems to work well with my Braille display is the Kindle app for iOS. This is to say, when I downloaded a Japanese language learning book, I was able to explore the Japanese words on my Braille display because, along with the Chinese characters, the book also used Roman characters for each word. Mark -----Original Message----- From: 'jan howells' via VIPhone [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2020 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 01 Spanish Basics Lesson 1 Duolingo Penny, The accents are a bit eisier now to understand and write then they were when I was in high school in the 702s. Back then, for example, the accents were: for a, it was the of sign. e was the the sign. i was the still sign. o was theing sign. And u was the with sign. Now, you just put a dot 4 before the regular letter that is accented. So a would just be a dot 4 and then the a. This is how the Spanish books are now that they have recently been revised bz Hadley. For my own notes, I used the old way, just because that is how I was trained, and I am used to it. That is why Spanish is always grade 1 braille, because of the accents. I have seen Italian in contracted grade 2 braille. So I do not know what they do for accents. I would like to learn Italian. Funny thing, I am full Italian, yet no of my name shows it, and I do not know any. My taste buds like the food, though. My father's mother changed his last name when she remarried. My mother's maiden name is Ciccone. It ended with an i, but when my grandfather got here off of the Adriata ship, the customs officer changed his first name to Joseph, and he removed the i from his last name and put an e on his passport. He never knew it, because he knew no English. I tease my family, because Madonna has the same last name as my mother. I tell them that she is a great relative relation to us. I do not know how to spell the Italian name for Joseph. I know how to say it, but I do not know how to spell it. My father's father had the same name. Joseph is my brother's middle name. My mother's mother's name is my sister's confirmation name. My father's real last name was Caravelo. Too bad I could not get a discount to change back since it was his last name. It is too expensive to change your name legally. Love with every stop out, Chanah -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/5e24e027.1c69fb81.72328.4adfSMTPIN_ADDED_MISSING%40gmr-mx.google.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/000901d5cf35%24f14f9ac0%24d3eed040%24%40edu.
