I'm certainly no expert in Braille, and I haven't taken lessons since I was 14, but it's a language I continue to use and believe is incredibly important. I hope you enjoyed this video and if you want more like it, let me know! PS. This video was filmed before I dyed my hair gray! It is not currently purple! :)
You're so inspiring. I love watching your videos and getting more educated about how you navigate the world, and don't let being blind get in the way of doing anything you want ❤️
I make something called junk journals I have been looking for Braille to put inside the journals I create it is incredibly hard to find Braille it makes me so sad that Braille is in readily accessible.
Love it! One tiny correction from your friendly neighborhood TVI, though - braille isn't a language! - it's a communication medium for reading and writing. It's still the English language. It has different foreign language codes, as well.
That's generous! I would've went with "the big dog was excessively and undeniably an excruciatingly, and very much so, a large species of a very big dog". Yes.
molly was learning it for a long time and using it a lot in school. I'm sure starting is just as slow as us sightees learning to type on a regular keyboard, if not slower!
I was born in 1989. haha When I was a teen I wanted to read books after 9 pm, but mom would yell at me to turn off the light, so I went to the library, learned braille for about an year and bought with my savings books written in it so I could read them in the dark. Mind you, those books were not cheap, so I could only get 2 of them. I would read them at night to help me fall asleep better. Mom never discovered them and she still doesn't know anything to this day. I am still thinking of a fun way to let her know. I donated the books to blind kids after I moved out. I still read the braille on painkiller med boxes when I'm too lazy to turn on the light to take them during night. So braille can be sometimes as useful for sighted people as it is for blind people.
@@yuppi3495 It's not hard to learn a new writing system, if it consists of 30-40 or so letters you can memorize them over a weekend then you just get faster over time from just using it.
It’s a catch 22. They’re government subsidized and they are not in high demand. Companies need to charge more for the further development of equipment of devices that are not flying off the shelves. A company that didn’t make money is out of business. Governments try to help with providing special funds for these to be purchased by DOR or schools which continues to keep the prices high since they are able to be purchased at the high prices. Hopefully that makes sense... :/
Well, the ink kind of has a different feeling compared to the paper. Not enough to really be noticeable if it's small but still. Maybe they just thought that whoever needed to read that had superpowers.
My college move in guide (basically a 10ish page packet with things like 'no candles or fireworks', pictures of room layouts, and the official definition of academic dishonesty) was available in over a dozen languages, and you could get multiple. My aunt (a 4th grade teacher), had a student who was losing his vision- he was blind in one eye (no light perception) and was only a little bit above legally blind in the other eye. This kid was really worried about growing up and trying to be independent, so when I saw that it was available in braille I asked if I could have a copy in braille. It was literally just standard printer paper with printed dots.
There's a public restroom in my city that says "when the green light is on, restroom is unoccupied, when the red light is on restroom is occupied" in braille ...
This may sound crazy but I’d love to see you post a video on the history of Braille, you mentioned France and how they would make letters lifted before Braille came along. I’d love to know what you know about it and what you find fascinating about it! Or even a historical time line of Braille the large events or movements that shifted the blind community in regards to Braille innovations
Louis Braille was I think three years old in France when he blinded himself with a tool in his father's toolshed. He went to a School for the Blind and was an extraordinary child. I believe he invented Braille at around 12 years old but every adult he showed was terrible to him, telling him it would amount to nothing. One of his school directors actually burned the books him and his classmates made and banned the use of Braille at the school. However, they wrote Braille in secret with each other. Louis Braille went on to be an extremely talented musician and braille was eventually recognized years later as an incredibly useful method of writing and reading for the blind
We wrote the book on Braille! Louis Braille, that is! its called A Touch of Genius. Anyways, here's a link to some of the historical info if you want to check it out www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/about/aboutbraille/whoislouis.html
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I went to a restaurant the other day, and there was a sign that said, "braille menus available upon request." But the sign didn't have braille on it...
My aunt teaches kids who are visually impaired and she used to let me use her Braille typewriter to learn! I don’t remember much of it but looking back it was great that she always encouraged and helped sighted people learn more about the blind community
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L.Neshelle uncut and unedited you are literally writing this under EVERY comment!!! Clearly this is a scam and that’s really messed up considering what’s going on in the world right now! I have reported many of your comments so far and will continue to do so as I see theM, and I know I will 🤮
If you really want to learn there this online school that will teach Introduction to Braille as well as Contracted Braille. It's free. Its called Hadley.
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Mydalis Bixler she’s literally commenting on EVERYONES comments!!! The same generic comment!! I’ve reported at least a dozen of her comments that I’ve seen thus far 🤢 pretty messed up what people will do to scam good people who just want to be a helping hand in these troubled times!
I'm not blind, but when I was younger, I was obsessed with everything to do with braille. I would checkout books in braille from the library, I was dedicated to learning how to read braille, one year I even asked for a slate and stylus for christmas and I would spend hours sitting in my room writing braille and translating things into braille. It's so fascinating to me.
Her: "So, I'm gonna show you how quick I can type." **INTENSE BRAILLE SMACKING** Edit: OH MY GOD ON A DIFFERENT VIDEO FROM MOLLY I SAID 110 WAS THE MOST I'VE EVER AD BUT 400?! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
Molly, this might make you scream. Warning In my school we have this super nice blind girl, she is a grade above me I think. But these guys hated her for no reason. So, they went to school after hours, with a hammer they started flattening all the braille signs at our school. They did it terribly, it is still pretty much legible but they were punished and they had to pay for all new signs.
there will always be those in the world that can only make themselves feel important by making others miserable. am glad they got caught and hope paying for new signs was the least of their punishment. i grew up with a blind cousin but that was back in the day there were schools for the blind. i know its segregation but at least they were safe from assholes like these
I’m a med student and a paramedic, so I have tons of finger strength and sensitivity from learning to find veins by feel and doing grip strength stuff because I have EDS. I actually learned braille because of this video and figured out recently I can finger read it too if the bumps aren’t too worn, it’s actually really helpful for dark venues so thanks molly! You’re video has helped me be quicker to find patients in clubs when they pass out in bathrooms and I can’t tell which is which.
When I was really young, I was playing at my great Aunt Bernice's house and discovered something I'd never seen before. I had never met her husband, but she told me that her husband had been blind and what I had found was his board and stylus. It was a wooden board with metal plate on top with tiny round indentations in groups of six, and a metal stylus, very heavy duty. She showed me the super thick paper that went with it, and let me play with it as much as I wanted to. I was so intrigued with that thing that I actually borrowed braille books from the library and taught myself the alphabet. I was a huge writer back then, and loved to write stories in braille. I would have to write the letters over each symbol, though, as I couldn't read the braille after I made it! I even took it to school for show and tell. That is probably my best memory of Aunt Bernice and I wish I had thought to ask about the board and stylus when she passed away. {I don't remember any of the braille alphabet now, but I wonder if it would come back to me if I tried it today)
I just saw a tv segment where someone has made a Braille smart watch! The face of it is the 6 cells and it connects to your phone with Bluetooth to give notifications in Braille - magnets under the face make the pins move. So cool!
YAY! My blind student, Aleyah, and I started a Braille club at lunch time in our public school for the 7th and 8th graders! I taught myself Braille/have been teaching it to myself! I’ve loved being able to share the language with all the kids!
I love that because I also have started something similar at my school. I'm in 7th grade so I had to get permission but... my blind friends where being left out at lunch. Both of them love to sing and play the piano. So with the help of the music teacher me and all the blind and visually impaired kids all meet up in the music room at lunch and we work on brailling there music notes to make it more accessible for them to learn.
Watching this video makes me want to learn Braille now. I read the book about Louis Braille when I was in elementary school and thought it was so interesting how he created his own language from poking holes in cardboard. I would love to see a video where you go more into depth of how you write each letter of the alphabet in Braille along with numbers and how to write sentences. You should make this into a whole series! I think it would be awesome!
If you want a fairly easy project buy a deck of Braille playing cards. It’s pretty easy to learn the thirteen symbols for the cards and the four symbols for the suits. The cards are also printed. Once you learn them, play a card game blindfolded with a friend.
As a linguist, I am here to remind people who may be confused: Braille is *not* a language. Braille is an orthography system, or a system of reading and writing.
@@Alice-si8uz they would have to communicate in braille if they were blind and mute (can't/don't speak) But because most blind people aren't also mute, they just talk normally, obviously without their sight :)
"Sighted people can't learn to tactile read braille" - why do I want to say challenge accepted? My Mom is a mainstream school system primary grades teacher, and she incorporates braille into the curriculum when she can. The alphabet strips she puts up around the classroom have print letters, braille dots, and hands showing the signs. When she does units on braille and sign, she has a thumb tack alphabet puzzle the kids have to assemble.
@@atomic.castle I'm partially deaf myself. I have no idea if this is something she was already doing in her classroom before me or not, because I know she finds Sign helpful with her students on the autism spectrum as well.
I disagree with that statement that sighted people can't learn it. I was obsessed with Anne Sullivan when I was kid, and did learn to read braille as easily as reading letters on paper. Probably the biggest challenge is sensitivity. You really have to pay super close attention, then get used to doing that without thinking about it. But it's definitely doable. I was 8 when I could, no kidding. It was a challenge and I loved it, and I wanted to be Anne when I grew up.
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Here I am, a fully sighted person and I am in awed by Braille, I have always find it fascinating that people can read all the dots, just as much as ASL, I think more people should learn all of this, we should be able to understand each other better... You are awesome
I'm a Junior in college studying to be an elementary school teacher and this video is so helpful to me. My university doesn't teach us about ASL, Braille, or ESL and I feel that it's something we should REALLY be learning about as future educators. Please make this a series. It would be so helpful to me.
That’s why I’m here too! I’m in secondary ed but have learned the ASL alphabet, am hoping to learn braille, and have begun Spanish classes. My mom is native so I have some experience. So glad there’s other educators doing this too!
i always forget she's blind because she's so good at eye contact with every single thing and she's such an amazing person and she's teaching so many people what is valuable i love her channel soooooo much
Yeah though it’s pretty annoying how people say she’s not blind. Like if you look carefully it’s obvious her eyes aren’t focused on things the way a sighted person would idk why that’s so hard to grasp. She is great at eye contact though.
Hi Molly! My name is Lina and I come from Colombia. I started watching your videos a year ago and it has been amazing to know about your story. Currently, I'm studying for being an English teacher, and like 2 weeks ago one of my professors gave us an interesting assignment. We had to create a book for children (I'm specialized in teaching English to young learners). To be honest, I did not know what to do. It may look like something easy to do, but it is not at all, and it is even more difficult when English is not your native language. You or anyone who may read this comment may be wondering why I'm telling you this... Well, I stumbled across one of your videos, the one about how you felt discriminated when you had to use transport apps, and your testimony was so touching for me and, it made me realize that a lot of children around the globe might be struggling to feel included and not discriminated at schools. That's why I decided to create a book addressed to visually impaired/blind children. I created the story and I translated it to grade 1 braille in English using a TH-cam video and a braille translator (grade 2 braille looked too complicated for me and I did not have that much time). I also used different materials with different textures to create the characters of the book (it was about routines) and I tried to make it as interactive as possible. I presented my little book to my professor as well as my classmates, and I felt so good and proud because I got out of my comfort zone and I was able to create something that in a future may be used by a visually impaired/blind child to learn another language. Now, watching your video about your experience at writing and reading braille was amazing. I thought it was a marvelous coincidence and it made me even more interested in learning braille. Even though braille or special education falls outside my area of expertise, I strongly believe that all educators must create and ensure a safe environment in which all children regardless of their abilities or disabilities receive quality and inclusive education. So, I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your inspiration and all the amazing content that you create on this platform. You are one of the few content creators that I really admire for your advocacy for access to education and inclusion. Thank you so much!
When you where talking about Uncontacted Braille and Contracted Braille it reminded me of Sign Language. ASL is my first language and I've learned that there are signs to shorten words or they just skip over some words like the, and, I, etc. because it would take so long to form one sentence. And I just think it's really cool how braille and sign language are connected in that way. Also I love you so much Molly and I think this video was amazing, very educational and I wanna learn braille now. #killerbee
I am a Deaf Studies minor and part of that is becoming conversationally fluent in ASL and studying in linguistically. ASL is so efficient it's crazy. It makes English seem like the clunkiest/most round about language. It is like reading is 1D, spoken English is 2D, and ASL is 3D with how the gammer works. I have studied Spanish, Manderine, German, and Latin. I am very excited about linguistics in general. You probably already know everything that I mentioned, but I just think find it so freaking ingenuous.
Molly, a young adult. " I want braille legos." Molly, you are so kind and although I am not blind I think the legos are a cool nd fun idea. Also, when she was typing it was SO fast! I was amazed even though i have seen her type i am always amazed at how fast she can type and when I was in second grade my class used a half a dried green pees to writ in braille to help the girl in 5th grade feel more welcome and the messages were all to show how much she did matter because she tried to commit suicide nd because was in 2nd grade i was confused on the word but now in 6th grade nd being 12 not 8 makes a difference.
Love that you are doing this. When I was in daycare / preschool I had a friend that was blind, a friend that was deaf and a friend that sat in a wheelchair. They taught me a lot, braille being one of the things. I am so thankful for having them growing up, I now look at disabled people in a totally different way then many others. I have kind of a disability myself, I live with pain every day. But I can walk, se and hear. So I am one of the lucky ones. Keep up the good work in teaching people that all disability doesn't mean that you are a helpless victim. And that even that what many would describe as a weakness, can be a strength.
That's what I was thinking. I always feel bad for people who need to pay more for foods they can eat because they can't eat the "regular" stuff. Like people who can't have gluten spend so much more on gluten free stuff. It isn't fair. This is just worse though. It's so expensive for a way to live.
I'm a teacher-in-training, and watching this video has inspired a desire in me to learn Braille and teach at schools for the blind! I have friends who majored in ASL Education, but I've never heard about learning Braille to teach the blind or visually impaired until this video! Thank you for sharing all this awesome history and information and for the inspiration! :)
I lost my majority of vision from 2 messed up eye surgery's when i was 39 years old. When i started being trained with my guidestick and the company i use to help keep my home "safe" 🙄 they refused to teach me braille. They didnt even really teach my husband the right way to guide me. Anyway when i expressed intrest in wanting just to see how it felt. I was screamed at and told i had better things to worry out. I from NY opened my door and told her that i had nothing to worry about but she needed to get the &#
Ya know what I love about this other than all of the fascinating info (and I'm serious about that)? It's the fact that one of the first things you preach is proper ergonomics. No matter if you are blind or sighted, using a brailler or a keyboard wrists level to slightly up will save you a ton of pain in the future. If you have wrists down and fingers up you run a very high risk of strains and developing carpal tunnel. So thank you for the wonderful information, and the ergonomics lesson everyone can benefit from both of these.
In countries with disability regulations requiring publicly displayed braille signage, they're at standardized locations (in terms of height, distance from doors, etc). Whether those regulations are actually followed, well... That's a bigger issue.
I’m not sure in general how it would work, but I’m thinking if they had a guide dog, the guide dog could probably be trained to point them in the right direction? I’m just going out on a limb here but those good boys and good girls are *SMART*
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Mollyyyyyyy!! I just watched this one and to be honest, I am really fond of learning languages. I wanted to learn something not everyone understands. And right after I finished watching this video, I went ahead and googled a list of Braille alphabet and numbers. And I must say, the way you taught where each dots corresponds the Brailler helped me memorized the whole alphabet (not totally though, I can't do it randomly yet). I was like singing the alphabet while typing it out. I just had to memorize A to J then the pattern is the same with just dot 3 for the next 10 letters and a remember that W is letter J with dot 6. It's like I'm playing piano but Braille. I hope I could get the hang of it and really learn to use it. 😍😍
When you said you have to memorize everything while you're reading, that was the moment i knew I wouldn't be able to learn braille. Cuz I'm dyslexic and I most at the time need to read a sentence multiple times to remember and understand it. So I'm definitely out😂💕💕💕
@@scorpio._.queen._. You might find that because you are also coding different bits of your brain are activated. I'm dyslexic too and find that my memory for written word verses printed sheet music are different.
When she explained why learning braille is important next to technology. Spelling, grammar and an understanding of language. My dyslexia was laughing. I hate writing in my native language because there is no spelling control that works as well as grammarly in that language.
When I was in third grade, I had a friend who is blind. I wish I would've started watching your vids sooner so that I could have understood her more. You are such an inspiration Molly💜💙💜💙
When you mentioned braille Legos, my mind immediately thought of braille Uno! I saw it at Target once and I thought that was really cool! I don’t know if it would be a good way to learn braille but it certainly would be fun to play!
Hi molly :) Im partially blind and have nystagmus (i use a white cane) Your videos inspire me so much and its amazing to watch your videos as they feel relatable to things i deal with Ive just started leaning grade 1 braille but struggling a little bit but you inspired me to start learning it and i will keep learning You are so amazing molly Much love from the UK ❤
I didnt expect you to be do fast still. I got a fright but I guess it's something that also would stay with you forever. Such an amazing video and thank you 😊 Also, love your book, just finished it a second time
YES PLEASE to more videos about Braille! More of the history, maybe a longer 'lesson' on how to use it, and I'd really love to hear more about your personal experience with learning it in terms of how hard/easy it was, if it was frustrating, how you felt about the whole thing in the beginning, etc.
This is SUCH a fascinating and well-presented video - thank you so much! I'm trained in linguistics and always reflecting on what technologies can help us (especially marginalised communities) learn and communicate and navigate the world of language. I have never seen such a thorough introduction to this topic, so again, thank you immensely
You literally just uploaded this as I was just wanting to learn how to write in braille so I can write you a letter that won't have to be read to you! How incredible is this? Watching now!!
@@MollyBurkeOfficial Oh my goodness, you replied to me!! Thank you so much!! I can't wait to get a letter written to you!! You are incredible and so inspiring and I love you so much!! Never stop what you're doing!!!!!
I’m so glad you made this video! For a school project I actually did an entire essay in Braille and it was a really cool process but oh my it was quite difficult
I'm 12 years old and I am in a program at my school where I help a student who is blind complete here tasks like brailling. So with that I picked up some braille. I aspire to be able to braille just as fast as you do. I can finger read some of the simple letters but still mix up m's & n's and i's & e's. I love that you share the history of braille with the community because when I was first learning I could not find very many videos on the history of brailling and the proper technique. I now know how to braille and hope that some day I will be able to use it in m future. You inspire me every day and help me a lot when it comes to how to properly interact and help my friend who is blind.
There's a picture book about Louis Braille that taught me about braille history from a very young age. It's pretty good, you should check it out. Edit: I belive it's called Six Dots
Rebecca M I was thinking that too but I think it’s because she mentioned it’s universal for all languages, it’s like a code that fits all languages so it’s become it’s own language? Esp with the shorthand version she was talking about idk
@@Alina07061 no it doesn't because its own language , it's just like the cyrilic alphabet its a writing system used in several languages like Russian or Kazakh it doesn't mean it becomes its own language separated from the languages that uses it
Yeah it's a writing system, Korean braille can also be used to write in English. There's a South-Pacific jungle tribe that adopted Hangul as their writing system. Has she never come across French or Spanish words in her own braille before?
Braille isn’t universal it’s more like a letter system If you learnt English Braille you wouldn’t be able to read the braillle in China but there can be short hand versions which have less letters to represent a word to make it faster
Hey Molly! I learned Braille 3 years ago when I was put with a 3rd grade girl who is rapidly losing her eyesight, (I was a teaching assistant). I'm not fluent, but I fell in love with the "code", and even though they sent her to a deaf and blind school, I still continue to practice often. I really enjoyed watching this video to refresh my love for it. Thanks for the wonderful video! 💖🦸♀️
I remember doing a blind awareness week at school when I was about 8. We had to draw pictures with our eyes shut, be guided around the playground by a partner a breaktime (blindfolded) and decode some printed braille. We also watched a video re-enactment of Louis inventing braille and it was so much quicker than raised letters that his teachers thought he must be cheating somehow!
I love the video molly, you look great and you're glowing, I think its awesome to have this video out there for anybody who dont know how to do these things, but I love you and I hope you have a amazing day
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😂 using the high-pattern paper for assignments you didn't want your teacher to easily read!! 😏 I love it. That's definitely something I would do, too haha. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! It's like I've gone my whole life without really being aware of this entirely different way of life. I'm quite embarrassed about this ignorance... but I am learning now! And, thanks to you, I am able to learn about life without sight! Really glad I found this channel ❤️
OMG when you started going through the ABCs I could not keep up, this would take me forever to get the hang of. I struggled enough with learning to read with sight as a kid.
I can imagine me watching this at 2:00 in the morning and my mom walks in and says" that blue light is bad for your eyes you could go blind" and me showing her the phone saying "well im training for that"
I might be a Braille sight reader and touch reader. I learned Braille in grade school in case I needed it later in life. I have very fragile retinas. And I remember when I was younger, I learned Braille visually. I did a little bit of tactile reading but I did most of it visually. And then I got a new TVI in middle school who forced me to read blindfolded. Now I can read it either by looking at it or by feeling it. It never occurred to me before this video that Braille teachers always sight read Braille 😂
This is exceptional! Thank you for being so eloquent Molly. I am a teacher, currently a Teaching Assistant working with students with disabilities including a couple of students with visual impairment and your videos have been teaching me so much about the blind and visually impaired community. This was one of the most informative videos and I appreciate it so much. I would love to see more about braille because this did cover so much and it would be cool to see like more detail on the letters and numbers, something separate on the equipment, the history is so interesting in itself as well. In fact last year I was working with I think it must have been similar to the braille label maker and it was effective for what we were trying to accomplish but I love your typewriter style typer. (Sorry that was long but that was so interesting) I just really wanted you to know you are helping me be a better teacher. Thank you for that.
My grandma owned tons of slate and styluses, thats ALL she had, that's how she taught me to write out braille, now seeing thats how she wrote EVERYTHING even with these other options, her hand must have hurt a lot 😂
I've used a Braille machine before, it was very hard to figure out at 1st but once you get going it's like a normal typewriter. I have terrible spelling though, so without auto correct I could never be a professional Braille typer
@Grâce Wilson you should hear hashtags, honestly mostly their just gibberish. Which is why you should always capitalise the first letter of each word in a hashtag. But yes, screenreader spelling mistakes are funny, also foreign sounding place names, and also the times when a screenreader doesn't know which word to read for words that are spelled the same, so just picks one. ie I gave a bow to the king and picked up my bow and arrows or I want to live my life live streaming every second. It just picks one lol, so one is always wrong
2:24 I mean, it's more of a script or writing system than a language, and the International Phonetic Alphabet is also like that - it works for every spoken language out there. Like with your example, Korean Braille is still Korean, English Braille is still English, it's just a writing system that can be used for any language, and the IPA is also that.
Hi Molly I really enjoyed this video with you giving your take on Braille, advocating for learning it and explaining how it worked. I also absolutely loved that you got patterned cardstock paper and Braille did it hand it into your Braille teachers who couldn't read it because they don't know how to read with their fingers. I went to grad school to be a teacher of students with visual impairments and our textbook to learn Braille showed all sight Braille. Just the patterns of dots printed on the page. I was working on learning it with my fingers. This for some reason surprised that teacher even though I am visually impaired. Braille is like print for me, I can read it with my eyes but it's a lot faster to read it with another sence. anyway, I love that you made this video. It was awesome!
There was a My America book called "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" about a girl who goes to a school for the blind in the 1930s. I distinctly remember part of it being about how she had to use that stylus thing! I loved it, I hope there's an audiobook version.
This is so cool! I am so fascinated by all sorts of different language; my goal for 2021 for my little bath soak business is to get versions of my labels made in braille so that my products are more accessible for blind shoppers or even as a gift from someone to a blind friend or relative. I don't know if it will be worth it or not but I feel like it would be, considering my products have herbs in them and what if someone is allergic to something in it but buys it not knowing the ingredients? I just feel it would be nice to make my products as accessible as possible! I found a company here in Canada that prints braille labels so that's my 2021 goal, as I'm sure it won't be cheap!
My 12 yr old daughter loved your video. She went blind in 2018 and she's been learning braille since then. She's just started high school and she now uses a Polaris to do all school work on. She absolutely adores you and she gets so excited when a new video comes out 💜
Molly you are awesome. I had a good friend that went blind at a young age. But I wanted to learn and ask so many question but was to scared and didn't want to upset her about braille. So you have been a very big help to me. Love your channel.
there was a girl in my school who was almost bling, so she was legally blind, literally, and one day she was learning braille as well, so when everyone else was doing something like improving our hand writing she went out and did something different like learn braille. every time she went out to do something she would get to take out one person with her and on one of the days she chose me because we were friends, and what her helper did ws wrote the 6 numbers on our and and learnt brail like that, it was pretty cool tbh.
I'm so glad they provide all of these things for blind people! I'm not blind but I've always wanted to learn sign language and brail, so I can speak to people.
My neighbor growing up was the teacher for the visually impaired in our school district. She gave me a Braille poster, and let me borrow one of her Braille machines regularly. I would sit there for hours typing out whatever came into my head. But - being sighted - I never learned to read it with my fingers! I always figured I was the only person who read Braille with my eyes. :) Thanks for a pleasant trip down memory lane!
1999... I was in my first year of college. Old lady me is gonna go hide in a corner. Also my mom is a Burke. Maybe we are 14th cousins 6 times removed.
Very nicely done! I think you covered everything pretty well in a short amount of time. I have been using Braille since 1972 when I started school in Fort Worth, TX. Braille has gone through a lot of changes over the years and I continue to keep up with the changes. I couldn't agree with you more on the subject of Braille and phonetics. I remember the struggle I had with spelling words I had not "seen" written in Braille. I was so glad to hear you cover that issue. Growing up I had just the opposite attitude towards Braille. I struggled with having to listen to audio books and preferred -- stubbornly I'll say -- reading over listening. Now I incorporate both senses in my continued learning. Audio for general and leisure reading, Braille for referential reading. I use Braille exclusively when operating my phone and could not do so without it. Did you know that some sighted people have learned Braille so they can "chord?" The process of typing Braille into a phone or tablet screen? The most fascinating things about Braille is in the unique ways it has been used by innovative and creative people. Thank you so much for doing such an awesome job in explaining this very complex language as completely as you did, as thoroughly as you did.
Loved this! As a sighted computer science teacher, I needed to assist a blind student with getting her Braillenote on our school's wireless network. So, I needed to learn enough Braille to navigate the menu system. I have found many ways to use Braille in teaching computer science - from design to binary. I have used many of your videos to talk about accessibility considerations in my computer science courses. (Specifically the self-driving car video.) Love your content!
I'm certainly no expert in Braille, and I haven't taken lessons since I was 14, but it's a language I continue to use and believe is incredibly important. I hope you enjoyed this video and if you want more like it, let me know!
PS. This video was filmed before I dyed my hair gray! It is not currently purple! :)
You're so inspiring. I love watching your videos and getting more educated about how you navigate the world, and don't let being blind get in the way of doing anything you want ❤️
I make something called junk journals I have been looking for Braille to put inside the journals I create it is incredibly hard to find Braille it makes me so sad that Braille is in readily accessible.
Love it! One tiny correction from your friendly neighborhood TVI, though - braille isn't a language! - it's a communication medium for reading and writing. It's still the English language. It has different foreign language codes, as well.
I found this so interesting. I would love to learn the logic around how the patterns are formed
I would definitely appreciate more videos discussing this topic. A steep learning curve, but one worth experiencing.
“the big dog was big”
me trying to reach the word count on my essay
I gave an ugly laugh at this
That's generous! I would've went with "the big dog was excessively and undeniably an excruciatingly, and very much so, a large species of a very big dog". Yes.
Nonayur Beezwax 💀💀💀😂😂
😂
also just repeat variations of a sentence too
Little Molly handing in her homework on patterned colorful braille paper is so cute
very Elle Woods ...
Jennie Finken what
Audreytrix she was a character in Legally Blonde (she used pink scented papers).
shes adorable
Jennie Finken XD true
The actual typing process is much faster than I had imagined.
It looked similar to someone writing at at keyboard or a typewriter.
& louder! So intriguing!!
**aggressively types in braille**
And it one hundred percent looks like she has no idea what she's doing and is just pounding the shit out of the keyboard
molly was learning it for a long time and using it a lot in school. I'm sure starting is just as slow as us sightees learning to type on a regular keyboard, if not slower!
I was born in 1989. haha
When I was a teen I wanted to read books after 9 pm, but mom would yell at me to turn off the light, so I went to the library, learned braille for about an year and bought with my savings books written in it so I could read them in the dark. Mind you, those books were not cheap, so I could only get 2 of them. I would read them at night to help me fall asleep better.
Mom never discovered them and she still doesn't know anything to this day. I am still thinking of a fun way to let her know.
I donated the books to blind kids after I moved out.
I still read the braille on painkiller med boxes when I'm too lazy to turn on the light to take them during night.
So braille can be sometimes as useful for sighted people as it is for blind people.
Haha this is gold!
Daaaamn! So you basically learned an entire writing system just to read at night? Damn, if that isn't dedication I don't know what is.
Imma learn braille now, my mom doesn’t let me read at night so this is useful
for somereson im guna try!!
@@yuppi3495 It's not hard to learn a new writing system, if it consists of 30-40 or so letters you can memorize them over a weekend then you just get faster over time from just using it.
I find it frustrating how expensive Braille equipment is.
Anything that assissts a disabled person is expensive and medical aids don't cover these things as they say it's a luxury to have them
It should be a right to at least have some basics covered
It’s a catch 22. They’re government subsidized and they are not in high demand. Companies need to charge more for the further development of equipment of devices that are not flying off the shelves. A company that didn’t make money is out of business. Governments try to help with providing special funds for these to be purchased by DOR or schools which continues to keep the prices high since they are able to be purchased at the high prices. Hopefully that makes sense... :/
icatstaci77 yeah it SUCKS
Does any one else think it is weird that people want the three Dimension printers in EVERY library around yet...
Hm, they are being kind mean.
I still can’t get over the fact that the buses in my home town had signs in Braille PRINTED OUT ON REGULAR PAPER
Well, the ink kind of has a different feeling compared to the paper. Not enough to really be noticeable if it's small but still. Maybe they just thought that whoever needed to read that had superpowers.
That's funny
Lol *stop it* ...no way! 😂
My college move in guide (basically a 10ish page packet with things like 'no candles or fireworks', pictures of room layouts, and the official definition of academic dishonesty) was available in over a dozen languages, and you could get multiple. My aunt (a 4th grade teacher), had a student who was losing his vision- he was blind in one eye (no light perception) and was only a little bit above legally blind in the other eye. This kid was really worried about growing up and trying to be independent, so when I saw that it was available in braille I asked if I could have a copy in braille. It was literally just standard printer paper with printed dots.
There's a public restroom in my city that says "when the green light is on, restroom is unoccupied, when the red light is on restroom is occupied" in braille ...
This may sound crazy but I’d love to see you post a video on the history of Braille, you mentioned France and how they would make letters lifted before Braille came along. I’d love to know what you know about it and what you find fascinating about it!
Or even a historical time line of Braille the large events or movements that shifted the blind community in regards to Braille innovations
Oh my gosh that is so cool!!
I can tell you about it!!!!! I know all about it
Louis Braille was I think three years old in France when he blinded himself with a tool in his father's toolshed. He went to a School for the Blind and was an extraordinary child. I believe he invented Braille at around 12 years old but every adult he showed was terrible to him, telling him it would amount to nothing. One of his school directors actually burned the books him and his classmates made and banned the use of Braille at the school. However, they wrote Braille in secret with each other. Louis Braille went on to be an extremely talented musician and braille was eventually recognized years later as an incredibly useful method of writing and reading for the blind
We wrote the book on Braille! Louis Braille, that is! its called A Touch of Genius. Anyways, here's a link to some of the historical info if you want to check it out www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/about/aboutbraille/whoislouis.html
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When she typed “the big dog was big”, it looked like she just typed random letters, like “ibduhvnydbhdnudnudnuemjdnud”
Firstname Lastname I know it is crazy that to her it is a completely normal sentence.
AHAHHAHAHA
Because she is blind stop being mean
Yep. That’s the only way I can type that fast in English is if I type fgiivfrwwhbiobfdgjjkk
I went to a restaurant the other day, and there was a sign that said, "braille menus available upon request." But the sign didn't have braille on it...
Lmao
You had one job
Omg 😂
Lmfao
Lol
As they just assume you are with a seeing person at all times.
My aunt teaches kids who are visually impaired and she used to let me use her Braille typewriter to learn! I don’t remember much of it but looking back it was great that she always encouraged and helped sighted people learn more about the blind community
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L.Neshelle uncut and unedited you are literally writing this under EVERY comment!!! Clearly this is a scam and that’s really messed up considering what’s going on in the world right now! I have reported many of your comments so far and will continue to do so as I see theM, and I know I will 🤮
Laurel Wood that’s so cool.
OH! I’ve always wanted to learn Braille can’t wait to watch!
If you really want to learn there this online school that will teach Introduction to Braille as well as Contracted Braille. It's free. Its called Hadley.
Same!!!
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@@youtubeyoungestgrandmastor4523 your probably a scammer. Your commenting it on people's comments
Mydalis Bixler she’s literally commenting on EVERYONES comments!!! The same generic comment!! I’ve reported at least a dozen of her comments that I’ve seen thus far 🤢 pretty messed up what people will do to scam good people who just want to be a helping hand in these troubled times!
I'm not blind, but when I was younger, I was obsessed with everything to do with braille. I would checkout books in braille from the library, I was dedicated to learning how to read braille, one year I even asked for a slate and stylus for christmas and I would spend hours sitting in my room writing braille and translating things into braille. It's so fascinating to me.
Her: "So, I'm gonna show you how quick I can type."
**INTENSE BRAILLE SMACKING**
Edit: OH MY GOD ON A DIFFERENT VIDEO FROM MOLLY I SAID 110 WAS THE MOST I'VE EVER AD BUT 400?! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!
**KEYBOARD SMASHES**
OMMG HAHAHA
Alexandra Turman me too :)
Intense Braille smacking had me wheezing 🤣🤣
Aren’t we going to point out how she looked up and proudly said “the big dog was big” in the funniest way ever
Molly, this might make you scream. Warning
In my school we have this super nice blind girl, she is a grade above me I think. But these guys hated her for no reason. So, they went to school after hours, with a hammer they started flattening all the braille signs at our school. They did it terribly, it is still pretty much legible but they were punished and they had to pay for all new signs.
Good thing they found who did it and make them pay for it. But I do hope the school does more to actually make those guys see how wrong they were.
Good they had to pay for new braille signs
there will always be those in the world that can only make themselves feel important by making others miserable. am glad they got caught and hope paying for new signs was the least of their punishment. i grew up with a blind cousin but that was back in the day there were schools for the blind. i know its segregation but at least they were safe from assholes like these
They should have to do community service with blind kids. What a bunch of punks!
while wearing blind folds see how they deal with it. not very well im betting
If a blind person touches my forehead he will be like «WTH is written here»
scorpio 2803 sameee hahaha
😂
I have eczema bumps on my arms and they would be very confused by what’s on my arms.
BLIND GIRL READS MY ACNE???? *W/ Molly Burke*
@@sydseibert5042 Nooo, bruh
I’m a med student and a paramedic, so I have tons of finger strength and sensitivity from learning to find veins by feel and doing grip strength stuff because I have EDS. I actually learned braille because of this video and figured out recently I can finger read it too if the bumps aren’t too worn, it’s actually really helpful for dark venues so thanks molly! You’re video has helped me be quicker to find patients in clubs when they pass out in bathrooms and I can’t tell which is which.
When I was really young, I was playing at my great Aunt Bernice's house and discovered something I'd never seen before. I had never met her husband, but she told me that her husband had been blind and what I had found was his board and stylus. It was a wooden board with metal plate on top with tiny round indentations in groups of six, and a metal stylus, very heavy duty. She showed me the super thick paper that went with it, and let me play with it as much as I wanted to. I was so intrigued with that thing that I actually borrowed braille books from the library and taught myself the alphabet. I was a huge writer back then, and loved to write stories in braille. I would have to write the letters over each symbol, though, as I couldn't read the braille after I made it! I even took it to school for show and tell. That is probably my best memory of Aunt Bernice and I wish I had thought to ask about the board and stylus when she passed away. {I don't remember any of the braille alphabet now, but I wonder if it would come back to me if I tried it today)
This is such a lovely story to read. I’m glad you had that experience with your aunt 🙂
That device is called a slate and stylus. You can get them for pretty inexpensive. You should try to get one and practice. That’s an awesome story btw
Hi! My wife and I just had a child born with no eyes. I appreciate your intro as we are just starting to immerse ourselves in the world of the blind!
I just saw a tv segment where someone has made a Braille smart watch! The face of it is the 6 cells and it connects to your phone with Bluetooth to give notifications in Braille - magnets under the face make the pins move. So cool!
YAY! My blind student, Aleyah, and I started a Braille club at lunch time in our public school for the 7th and 8th graders! I taught myself Braille/have been teaching it to myself! I’ve loved being able to share the language with all the kids!
I love that because I also have started something similar at my school. I'm in 7th grade so I had to get permission but... my blind friends where being left out at lunch. Both of them love to sing and play the piano. So with the help of the music teacher me and all the blind and visually impaired kids all meet up in the music room at lunch and we work on brailling there music notes to make it more accessible for them to learn.
Watching this video makes me want to learn Braille now. I read the book about Louis Braille when I was in elementary school and thought it was so interesting how he created his own language from poking holes in cardboard. I would love to see a video where you go more into depth of how you write each letter of the alphabet in Braille along with numbers and how to write sentences. You should make this into a whole series! I think it would be awesome!
I also learned about him in elementary school.
I would also love to watch more on this... Was a tiny bit sad when it was only 21 minutes!
If you want a fairly easy project buy a deck of Braille playing cards. It’s pretty easy to learn the thirteen symbols for the cards and the four symbols for the suits. The cards are also printed. Once you learn them, play a card game blindfolded with a friend.
@@kmbell22 That sounds like a good idea! Never knew there was Braille playing cards. Will have to look for those! Thanks for telling me about them.
It’s been done. Just search TH-cam, and google.
I'mm not blind but I loved this video!!
@@giovannisetaro262 she said she is not blind :/
Same
Edit: I'm not blind but from molly I can work out some brail. By looking at them not by feeling them.
I was thinking how you type is and then I remembered typing exist
As a linguist, I am here to remind people who may be confused: Braille is *not* a language. Braille is an orthography system, or a system of reading and writing.
Do people communicate in braille or is it just for reading/writing information (like school work or signs)
@@Alice-si8uz they would have to communicate in braille if they were blind and mute (can't/don't speak) But because most blind people aren't also mute, they just talk normally, obviously without their sight :)
Thank you! I'm also a linguist 🙈
Aw man so if I learn Braille then I can’t say I know two different languages, oh well I still wanna learn it
Who asked? I’m not trying to be rude, but seriously, this just seems like a way for you to correct something that no one really needed to know. Sorry.
"Sighted people can't learn to tactile read braille" - why do I want to say challenge accepted?
My Mom is a mainstream school system primary grades teacher, and she incorporates braille into the curriculum when she can. The alphabet strips she puts up around the classroom have print letters, braille dots, and hands showing the signs. When she does units on braille and sign, she has a thumb tack alphabet puzzle the kids have to assemble.
As a hearing impaired person, I love that your mom has posters with signs on them! 💕💕 Tell her thank you for me!
@@atomic.castle I'm partially deaf myself. I have no idea if this is something she was already doing in her classroom before me or not, because I know she finds Sign helpful with her students on the autism spectrum as well.
I disagree with that statement that sighted people can't learn it. I was obsessed with Anne Sullivan when I was kid, and did learn to read braille as easily as reading letters on paper. Probably the biggest challenge is sensitivity. You really have to pay super close attention, then get used to doing that without thinking about it. But it's definitely doable. I was 8 when I could, no kidding. It was a challenge and I loved it, and I wanted to be Anne when I grew up.
@@atomic.castle My 10-year-old takes an elective class that teaches both Spanish and sign, and she loves it!
Same here, I really want to learn to finger and sight read braille
The lego braille set should be out this year!:) as I know you can't buy it, they want to give it to some organizations to gift it to blind kids.
Hey, Lego - gift some to Molly!
Let’s spam @Lego with this request
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Molly: “Half the people here probably weren’t born until 2006” 😆
Me (1978): “oof!” 😅 ... I feel old Molly! 😂
Hold my beer (Born in 68).
I’m not that old, but I was born in 1999
I'm only a little younger than molly, but definitely born before 2006 (1997)
I was saying the same thing. If Molly feels old, what does that make me?
1960 here - I’m a boomer!
Here I am, a fully sighted person and I am in awed by Braille, I have always find it fascinating that people can read all the dots, just as much as ASL, I think more people should learn all of this, we should be able to understand each other better... You are awesome
I'm a Junior in college studying to be an elementary school teacher and this video is so helpful to me. My university doesn't teach us about ASL, Braille, or ESL and I feel that it's something we should REALLY be learning about as future educators. Please make this a series. It would be so helpful to me.
That’s why I’m here too! I’m in secondary ed but have learned the ASL alphabet, am hoping to learn braille, and have begun Spanish classes. My mom is native so I have some experience. So glad there’s other educators doing this too!
i always forget she's blind because she's so good at eye contact with every single thing and she's such an amazing person and she's teaching so many people what is valuable
i love her channel soooooo much
Yeah though it’s pretty annoying how people say she’s not blind. Like if you look carefully it’s obvious her eyes aren’t focused on things the way a sighted person would idk why that’s so hard to grasp. She is great at eye contact though.
Yeah I love you
Hi Molly! My name is Lina and I come from Colombia. I started watching your videos a year ago and it has been amazing to know about your story. Currently, I'm studying for being an English teacher, and like 2 weeks ago one of my professors gave us an interesting assignment. We had to create a book for children (I'm specialized in teaching English to young learners). To be honest, I did not know what to do. It may look like something easy to do, but it is not at all, and it is even more difficult when English is not your native language. You or anyone who may read this comment may be wondering why I'm telling you this... Well, I stumbled across one of your videos, the one about how you felt discriminated when you had to use transport apps, and your testimony was so touching for me and, it made me realize that a lot of children around the globe might be struggling to feel included and not discriminated at schools. That's why I decided to create a book addressed to visually impaired/blind children. I created the story and I translated it to grade 1 braille in English using a TH-cam video and a braille translator (grade 2 braille looked too complicated for me and I did not have that much time). I also used different materials with different textures to create the characters of the book (it was about routines) and I tried to make it as interactive as possible.
I presented my little book to my professor as well as my classmates, and I felt so good and proud because I got out of my comfort zone and I was able to create something that in a future may be used by a visually impaired/blind child to learn another language.
Now, watching your video about your experience at writing and reading braille was amazing. I thought it was a marvelous coincidence and it made me even more interested in learning braille. Even though braille or special education falls outside my area of expertise, I strongly believe that all educators must create and ensure a safe environment in which all children regardless of their abilities or disabilities receive quality and inclusive education.
So, I just wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for your inspiration and all the amazing content that you create on this platform. You are one of the few content creators that I really admire for your advocacy for access to education and inclusion.
Thank you so much!
When you where talking about Uncontacted Braille and Contracted Braille it reminded me of Sign Language. ASL is my first language and I've learned that there are signs to shorten words or they just skip over some words like the, and, I, etc. because it would take so long to form one sentence. And I just think it's really cool how braille and sign language are connected in that way. Also I love you so much Molly and I think this video was amazing, very educational and I wanna learn braille now. #killerbee
I am a Deaf Studies minor and part of that is becoming conversationally fluent in ASL and studying in linguistically. ASL is so efficient it's crazy. It makes English seem like the clunkiest/most round about language. It is like reading is 1D, spoken English is 2D, and ASL is 3D with how the gammer works. I have studied Spanish, Manderine, German, and Latin. I am very excited about linguistics in general. You probably already know everything that I mentioned, but I just think find it so freaking ingenuous.
@@jaydehall9731 Lovely!!!I would ask, can we speak, but you translate differently.I would press my fingers together-more. Thanks !
Molly, a young adult.
" I want braille legos."
Molly, you are so kind and although I am not blind I think the legos are a cool nd fun idea.
Also, when she was typing it was SO fast! I was amazed even though i have seen her type i am always amazed at how fast she can type and when I was in second grade my class used a half a dried green pees to writ in braille to help the girl in 5th grade feel more welcome and the messages were all to show how much she did matter because she tried to commit suicide nd because was in 2nd grade i was confused on the word but now in 6th grade nd being 12 not 8 makes a difference.
Love that you are doing this.
When I was in daycare / preschool I had a friend that was blind, a friend that was deaf and a friend that sat in a wheelchair. They taught me a lot, braille being one of the things.
I am so thankful for having them growing up, I now look at disabled people in a totally different way then many others. I have kind of a disability myself, I live with pain every day. But I can walk, se and hear. So I am one of the lucky ones.
Keep up the good work in teaching people that all disability doesn't mean that you are a helpless victim. And that even that what many would describe as a weakness, can be a strength.
This stuff shouldn't be so expensive if I were needing them I know for a fact I wouldn't be able to afford those things it's nuts
That's what I was thinking. I always feel bad for people who need to pay more for foods they can eat because they can't eat the "regular" stuff. Like people who can't have gluten spend so much more on gluten free stuff. It isn't fair. This is just worse though. It's so expensive for a way to live.
cuz its not normal. A.k.a not worth as a product to make but its expensive to make.
So the makers need some way to make up for money lost
Could you please do a part 2 I am really interested in this braille code for the blind and even though I am sighted I want to learn more about it
I’m convinced that reading Braille is a legit superpower now.
I'm a teacher-in-training, and watching this video has inspired a desire in me to learn Braille and teach at schools for the blind! I have friends who majored in ASL Education, but I've never heard about learning Braille to teach the blind or visually impaired until this video! Thank you for sharing all this awesome history and information and for the inspiration! :)
My conclusion to this video: being blind is very expensive
I’m a sighted person and I love learning about all of this. I would absolutely love to see more Braille/informative videos!
I lost my majority of vision from 2 messed up eye surgery's when i was 39 years old. When i started being trained with my guidestick and the company i use to help keep my home "safe" 🙄 they refused to teach me braille. They didnt even really teach my husband the right way to guide me.
Anyway when i expressed intrest in wanting just to see how it felt. I was screamed at and told i had better things to worry out.
I from NY opened my door and told her that i had nothing to worry about but she needed to get the &#
I am 46 now BTW. My hubby just like blurting my age out
That's awful.
Wow that’s awful! Hey, it’s never to late.
Sending hugs. I'm so sorry that happened to you. :(
So sorry that happened to you. You deserve to have all of the tools you want to live your best life!
Since my school is out for the rest of the year I would love for Molly to just teach us Brail and its history💙💜💙
Ya know what I love about this other than all of the fascinating info (and I'm serious about that)? It's the fact that one of the first things you preach is proper ergonomics. No matter if you are blind or sighted, using a brailler or a keyboard wrists level to slightly up will save you a ton of pain in the future. If you have wrists down and fingers up you run a very high risk of strains and developing carpal tunnel. So thank you for the wonderful information, and the ergonomics lesson everyone can benefit from both of these.
I've always been curious how someone who's blind actually finds braille signs? I mean they could be anywhere and nowhere.
The Tommy Edison experience on TH-cam has a video about that
In countries with disability regulations requiring publicly displayed braille signage, they're at standardized locations (in terms of height, distance from doors, etc). Whether those regulations are actually followed, well... That's a bigger issue.
I was wondering that too cuz they have Braille on restroom signs but how do they find the sign?
@@TheHappytan They can find the door just by asking someone, signs are usually on the door. Ain't that deep. :D
I’m not sure in general how it would work, but I’m thinking if they had a guide dog, the guide dog could probably be trained to point them in the right direction? I’m just going out on a limb here but those good boys and good girls are *SMART*
THIS IS WHY I WATCH AND LOVE TH-cam AND YOU MOLLY!! Thank you so much I've always been curious about Braille
Hello Nicole.
m.th-cam.com/channels/ItlLTOci7wcorW4A1JAY7w.htmlvideos. If you like Molly. Then, you might also like this girl. She's going blind and wants to leave a mark on the world be for that happens. Have a nice day.
Mollyyyyyyy!! I just watched this one and to be honest, I am really fond of learning languages. I wanted to learn something not everyone understands. And right after I finished watching this video, I went ahead and googled a list of Braille alphabet and numbers. And I must say, the way you taught where each dots corresponds the Brailler helped me memorized the whole alphabet (not totally though, I can't do it randomly yet). I was like singing the alphabet while typing it out. I just had to memorize A to J then the pattern is the same with just dot 3 for the next 10 letters and a remember that W is letter J with dot 6. It's like I'm playing piano but Braille. I hope I could get the hang of it and really learn to use it. 😍😍
When you said you have to memorize everything while you're reading, that was the moment i knew I wouldn't be able to learn braille. Cuz I'm dyslexic and I most at the time need to read a sentence multiple times to remember and understand it. So I'm definitely out😂💕💕💕
that's apparently a thing in general when being blind... you better have a good memory!
@@flagerdevil something i don't have😅
@@scorpio._.queen._. You might find that because you are also coding different bits of your brain are activated. I'm dyslexic too and find that my memory for written word verses printed sheet music are different.
When she explained why learning braille is important next to technology. Spelling, grammar and an understanding of language. My dyslexia was laughing. I hate writing in my native language because there is no spelling control that works as well as grammarly in that language.
With my dyslexia and memory loss I think I would be doomed
Molly" most of these people weren't born till 2006"
Me"wow i was born in 2006....."
Same. I felt like I was being called out
same mmao
@@kai-hs3db lmao* xD
Kaili Pancocha mmao
When I was in third grade, I had a friend who is blind. I wish I would've started watching your vids sooner so that I could have understood her more. You are such an inspiration Molly💜💙💜💙
When you mentioned braille Legos, my mind immediately thought of braille Uno! I saw it at Target once and I thought that was really cool! I don’t know if it would be a good way to learn braille but it certainly would be fun to play!
Hi molly :)
Im partially blind and have nystagmus (i use a white cane)
Your videos inspire me so much and its amazing to watch your videos as they feel relatable to things i deal with
Ive just started leaning grade 1 braille but struggling a little bit but you inspired me to start learning it and i will keep learning
You are so amazing molly
Much love from the UK ❤
I didnt expect you to be do fast still. I got a fright but I guess it's something that also would stay with you forever. Such an amazing video and thank you 😊
Also, love your book, just finished it a second time
YES PLEASE to more videos about Braille! More of the history, maybe a longer 'lesson' on how to use it, and I'd really love to hear more about your personal experience with learning it in terms of how hard/easy it was, if it was frustrating, how you felt about the whole thing in the beginning, etc.
This is SUCH a fascinating and well-presented video - thank you so much! I'm trained in linguistics and always reflecting on what technologies can help us (especially marginalised communities) learn and communicate and navigate the world of language. I have never seen such a thorough introduction to this topic, so again, thank you immensely
I’m sighted, but I really want to learn Braille! Much love! 😊❤️
You can, it is possible for sighted people to learn
Emma's Everyday Life it’s pretty easy to catch on to at least the alphabet, I taught myself! 😋
Angel Heffner that’s awesome!
@@angelheffner How did you fo it?
I am as well and I would also love to learn it!
You literally just uploaded this as I was just wanting to learn how to write in braille so I can write you a letter that won't have to be read to you! How incredible is this? Watching now!!
Aw, that's so sweet! Thank you!
@@MollyBurkeOfficial Oh my goodness, you replied to me!! Thank you so much!! I can't wait to get a letter written to you!! You are incredible and so inspiring and I love you so much!! Never stop what you're doing!!!!!
I’m so glad you made this video! For a school project I actually did an entire essay in Braille and it was a really cool process but oh my it was quite difficult
Glad you touched on this as I have often wondered why raised lettering isn’t used as I thought it would have been easier
I'm 12 years old and I am in a program at my school where I help a student who is blind complete here tasks like brailling. So with that I picked up some braille. I aspire to be able to braille just as fast as you do. I can finger read some of the simple letters but still mix up m's & n's and i's & e's. I love that you share the history of braille with the community because when I was first learning I could not find very many videos on the history of brailling and the proper technique. I now know how to braille and hope that some day I will be able to use it in m future. You inspire me every day and help me a lot when it comes to how to properly interact and help my friend who is blind.
There's a picture book about Louis Braille that taught me about braille history from a very young age. It's pretty good, you should check it out.
Edit: I belive it's called Six Dots
Wouldn't Braille be a writing system not a full language? Since you're transcribing English words in the same sentence structure.
Rebecca M I was thinking that too but I think it’s because she mentioned it’s universal for all languages, it’s like a code that fits all languages so it’s become it’s own language? Esp with the shorthand version she was talking about idk
Yup, definitely a writing system, not a language.
@@Alina07061 no it doesn't because its own language , it's just like the cyrilic alphabet its a writing system used in several languages like Russian or Kazakh it doesn't mean it becomes its own language separated from the languages that uses it
Yeah it's a writing system, Korean braille can also be used to write in English. There's a South-Pacific jungle tribe that adopted Hangul as their writing system. Has she never come across French or Spanish words in her own braille before?
Braille isn’t universal it’s more like a letter system If you learnt English Braille you wouldn’t be able to read the braillle in China but there can be short hand versions which have less letters to represent a word to make it faster
My ADHD deciding to focus on the fly in the background lol
I would have probably done the same if I were still able to see it 🤣
Hey Molly! I learned Braille 3 years ago when I was put with a 3rd grade girl who is rapidly losing her eyesight, (I was a teaching assistant). I'm not fluent, but I fell in love with the "code", and even though they sent her to a deaf and blind school, I still continue to practice often. I really enjoyed watching this video to refresh my love for it. Thanks for the wonderful video! 💖🦸♀️
I remember doing a blind awareness week at school when I was about 8. We had to draw pictures with our eyes shut, be guided around the playground by a partner a breaktime (blindfolded) and decode some printed braille. We also watched a video re-enactment of Louis inventing braille and it was so much quicker than raised letters that his teachers thought he must be cheating somehow!
I love the video molly, you look great and you're glowing, I think its awesome to have this video out there for anybody who dont know how to do these things, but I love you and I hope you have a amazing day
wow molly, you are so inspiring! lysm!
Hello Olivia.
m.th-cam.com/channels/ItlLTOci7wcorW4A1JAY7w.htmlvideos. If you like Molly. Then, you might also like this girl. She's going blind and wants to leave a mark on the world be for that happens. Have a nice day.
Lol so awkward
I met Dr. Nemmeth before he passed
Great man
May he rest in peace
ElReyDominicano612 i also met him! But unfortunately his code is not being used anymore. So ridiculous in my opinion.
I remember calling him on Christmas Eve when I was taking my Nemeth class. Such a sweet man! I love his "I can feel blue on Monday" speech.
😂 using the high-pattern paper for assignments you didn't want your teacher to easily read!! 😏 I love it. That's definitely something I would do, too haha.
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us! It's like I've gone my whole life without really being aware of this entirely different way of life. I'm quite embarrassed about this ignorance... but I am learning now! And, thanks to you, I am able to learn about life without sight! Really glad I found this channel ❤️
In Spanish there are opening question and exclamation marks, as well as closing ones. Do you think that would make reading more enjoyable?
How so?
OMG when you started going through the ABCs I could not keep up, this would take me forever to get the hang of. I struggled enough with learning to read with sight as a kid.
I can imagine me watching this at 2:00 in the morning and my mom walks in and says" that blue light is bad for your eyes you could go blind" and me showing her the phone saying "well im training for that"
Oh cool, I can't wait to learn more about this!!!
I might be a Braille sight reader and touch reader. I learned Braille in grade school in case I needed it later in life. I have very fragile retinas. And I remember when I was younger, I learned Braille visually. I did a little bit of tactile reading but I did most of it visually. And then I got a new TVI in middle school who forced me to read blindfolded. Now I can read it either by looking at it or by feeling it. It never occurred to me before this video that Braille teachers always sight read Braille 😂
This is exceptional! Thank you for being so eloquent Molly. I am a teacher, currently a Teaching Assistant working with students with disabilities including a couple of students with visual impairment and your videos have been teaching me so much about the blind and visually impaired community. This was one of the most informative videos and I appreciate it so much. I would love to see more about braille because this did cover so much and it would be cool to see like more detail on the letters and numbers, something separate on the equipment, the history is so interesting in itself as well. In fact last year I was working with I think it must have been similar to the braille label maker and it was effective for what we were trying to accomplish but I love your typewriter style typer. (Sorry that was long but that was so interesting) I just really wanted you to know you are helping me be a better teacher. Thank you for that.
My grandma owned tons of slate and styluses, thats ALL she had, that's how she taught me to write out braille, now seeing thats how she wrote EVERYTHING even with these other options, her hand must have hurt a lot 😂
I've used a Braille machine before, it was very hard to figure out at 1st but once you get going it's like a normal typewriter. I have terrible spelling though, so without auto correct I could never be a professional Braille typer
When someone misspells a word do you laugh at how your text to voice reads it?
yeeeessssss
I do that all the time
its hilarious
@Grâce Wilson you should hear hashtags, honestly mostly their just gibberish. Which is why you should always capitalise the first letter of each word in a hashtag.
But yes, screenreader spelling mistakes are funny, also foreign sounding place names, and also the times when a screenreader doesn't know which word to read for words that are spelled the same, so just picks one.
ie I gave a bow to the king and picked up my bow and arrows
or I want to live my life live streaming every second.
It just picks one lol, so one is always wrong
Grâce Wilson Yeah it does sound weird. There will be some where it will say it, but others where it won't.
@@susanwilliams2392 Wow. I did not even think about that. That sounds funny but like it would get annoying really fast haha.
2:24 I mean, it's more of a script or writing system than a language, and the International Phonetic Alphabet is also like that - it works for every spoken language out there.
Like with your example, Korean Braille is still Korean, English Braille is still English, it's just a writing system that can be used for any language, and the IPA is also that.
Hi Molly
I really enjoyed this video with you giving your take on Braille, advocating for learning it and explaining how it worked. I also absolutely loved that you got patterned cardstock paper and Braille did it hand it into your Braille teachers who couldn't read it because they don't know how to read with their fingers. I went to grad school to be a teacher of students with visual impairments and our textbook to learn Braille showed all sight Braille. Just the patterns of dots printed on the page. I was working on learning it with my fingers. This for some reason surprised that teacher even though I am visually impaired. Braille is like print for me, I can read it with my eyes but it's a lot faster to read it with another sence. anyway, I love that you made this video. It was awesome!
That’s awesome! I’m not blind, but I know someone who is. It’s amazing that you try to help! You’re just so inspirational!
I’ve been reading braille since I was 5 years old.I learned grade 2 braille at about age 8.
There was a My America book called "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" about a girl who goes to a school for the blind in the 1930s. I distinctly remember part of it being about how she had to use that stylus thing! I loved it, I hope there's an audiobook version.
Katie G I read that book!! I was thinking about it the whole time
Molly, YOU ARE THE SUPERWOMAN! I love you as a person, I love your confidence, and I love your content. I’m so happy for you as a person.
Great video, Molly ! It was very informative ! Thanks a lot.
Molly: senior kindergarten
Me (from the UK): **visible confusion** huh
This is so cool! I am so fascinated by all sorts of different language; my goal for 2021 for my little bath soak business is to get versions of my labels made in braille so that my products are more accessible for blind shoppers or even as a gift from someone to a blind friend or relative. I don't know if it will be worth it or not but I feel like it would be, considering my products have herbs in them and what if someone is allergic to something in it but buys it not knowing the ingredients? I just feel it would be nice to make my products as accessible as possible! I found a company here in Canada that prints braille labels so that's my 2021 goal, as I'm sure it won't be cheap!
This is very informative. I always wondered why people didn't raise letters and didn't realize they have to be so big. Braille is so cool.
My 12 yr old daughter loved your video. She went blind in 2018 and she's been learning braille since then. She's just started high school and she now uses a Polaris to do all school work on. She absolutely adores you and she gets so excited when a new video comes out 💜
Molly you are awesome. I had a good friend that went blind at a young age. But I wanted to learn and ask so many question but was to scared and didn't want to upset her about braille. So you have been a very big help to me. Love your channel.
YAYAYYASSSS MOLLYYYY I NEED THIS MY FRICKIN DREAM WOULD B 2 TYPE OUT BOOKS IN BRAILLE BEEN WAITIN SINCE U "THOUGHT" KARLIE KLOSS 4 DIS ❣❣❣
Sorcha you don’t realize a small book would equal 72 binders of Braille?
OMG this is incredibly informative
there was a girl in my school who was almost bling, so she was legally blind, literally, and one day she was learning braille as well, so when everyone else was doing something like improving our hand writing she went out and did something different like learn braille. every time she went out to do something she would get to take out one person with her and on one of the days she chose me because we were friends, and what her helper did ws wrote the 6 numbers on our and and learnt brail like that, it was pretty cool tbh.
I'm so glad they provide all of these things for blind people! I'm not blind but I've always wanted to learn sign language and brail, so I can speak to people.
My neighbor growing up was the teacher for the visually impaired in our school district. She gave me a Braille poster, and let me borrow one of her Braille machines regularly. I would sit there for hours typing out whatever came into my head. But - being sighted - I never learned to read it with my fingers! I always figured I was the only person who read Braille with my eyes. :) Thanks for a pleasant trip down memory lane!
Molly: *moving her fingers and teaching about the alphabets etc*
Me: "what just happened?"
*love & light to everyone reading this* 🕊
1999... I was in my first year of college. Old lady me is gonna go hide in a corner.
Also my mom is a Burke. Maybe we are 14th cousins 6 times removed.
1990 lol
Very nicely done! I think you covered everything pretty well in a short amount of time. I have been using Braille since 1972 when I started school in Fort Worth, TX. Braille has gone through a lot of changes over the years and I continue to keep up with the changes. I couldn't agree with you more on the subject of Braille and phonetics. I remember the struggle I had with spelling words I had not "seen" written in Braille. I was so glad to hear you cover that issue. Growing up I had just the opposite attitude towards Braille. I struggled with having to listen to audio books and preferred -- stubbornly I'll say -- reading over listening. Now I incorporate both senses in my continued learning. Audio for general and leisure reading, Braille for referential reading. I use Braille exclusively when operating my phone and could not do so without it.
Did you know that some sighted people have learned Braille so they can "chord?" The process of typing Braille into a phone or tablet screen? The most fascinating things about Braille is in the unique ways it has been used by innovative and creative people.
Thank you so much for doing such an awesome job in explaining this very complex language as completely as you did, as thoroughly as you did.
Loved this! As a sighted computer science teacher, I needed to assist a blind student with getting her Braillenote on our school's wireless network. So, I needed to learn enough Braille to navigate the menu system. I have found many ways to use Braille in teaching computer science - from design to binary. I have used many of your videos to talk about accessibility considerations in my computer science courses. (Specifically the self-driving car video.) Love your content!