Deidre,

Are you telling us  that you do not see pictures on the first lesson of a 
Duolingo? I have been incredibly specific in my description but you are not 
understanding it.

> On Jan 19, 2020, at 9:04 PM, M. Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
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