How BRAILLE Works

Grade 1 Braille (now called Uncontracted Braille).
Braille revolutionized life for the vision impaired. Discover how this remarkable system works. This video will teach you the braille alphabet, numbers and punctuation marks which are found in Grade 1 Braille.
I was inspired to make this video after reading a great book called Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software amzn.to/pR9MwK I highly recommend it.
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[@likeakittie]

I was watching a hilarious KZbin video and now I am learning Braille. The surprising part is that I am actually putting my effort in learning it.

[@sallyibrahim9135]

Same here lol xD I'm going to the library tomorrow for some braille bokks lol

[@assassinpanda9958]

Phyu Phyu Aung I was watching video games and that led to binary, morse, tap code and finally braille

[@Slaylovesyou]

Literally same. But then I thought that it could be helpful if *touch wood* I ever go blind

[@beckybodaschweri9215]

It surely seems that way. I myself also just stumbled my way randomly upon this video...

[@pecania]

I was watching a video about two guys having a sax battle

[@desynonsochecognomefintome4806]

I think that Braille and sign language should be teached at school

[@sr6571]

Desirè Mileo *taught, but i agree

[@desynonsochecognomefintome4806]

smooop Sorry but I'm Italian, my English isn't perfect. Thanks for correcting me ♪

[@jacobclement7707]

Sign language I agree on but for people who can see there isn't a point

[@desynonsochecognomefintome4806]

Jacob Clement Why? you can lose your view also if you aren't born blind

[@jacobclement7707]

Desirè Mileo That's true but then you can learn it on your own time. Why waster valuable teaching team with brail when you could be learning people skills and math

[@sophieminter0]

The hardest part is remembering the story

[@alexrapp8569]

i dont remember the whole story, just the words that correspond to the letters

[@nafishy]

Alex and Akoni same

[@forg7864]

I remember the things that they drew

[@joslynmarqs2651]

I just remember the pictures and then try to recall wht the word cos possibly be after all it's only like the first 10 alphabets

[@aj5401]

So there Is more than one alphabet?

[@spartankongcountry6799]

"now we discard the rest of the cells as we won't see them again" ahaha I see what you did there

[@NERDmNERDf]

GET IT. CAUSE YOURE BLIND. wait. How can a blind man/woman watch this video.... My God. A pointless video on KZbin.

[@f556784q3]

shockingly you don't have to be completely blind, or blind at all, to learn braille

[@spartankongcountry6799]

***** You don't need to be either to understand satire either ;)

[@foodismybae9532]

Wreethee Faaangs i

[@deannapotter2289]

You can teach a blind person using a muffin tin for 6 and tennis balls.

[@trancestimuli]

I was diagnosed last week as a glaucoma suspect with an OHT of 26 and a disc of .55 in both eyes so I figured I'd start learning now. Better to have a skill that I have no use for than to someday need it and not have it. Thank you for making this concise.

[@BlizzardPeak]

Hope you're doing okay these days.

[@bigdog6704]

@@BlizzardPeak I wonder if she needs it now

[@du42bz]

WE NEED AN UPDATE

[@grassdungeon8433]

How are you now?

[@gavinkeeler1887]

I have to learn this soon I, so freaking scared .....I'm 13 and losing my vision everyday..without my glasses I can only see by holding the book about half an inch from my eye

[@armaghankhankhalil4208]

julianna Madrigal you are blind right can you tell that can you see a person face a man or a animal face

[@xyr0n121]

It´s sad, he probably can´t read our comments anymore :(

[@zakariyahthetruthseeker325]

Bro can you read this

[@vizklm9161]

@@xyr0n121 Vision impaired people can use modern technique that reads the comments for them.

[@juancena1117]

Same. My visions horrible and im pretty sure one day ima lose my vision. Hopefully ill have a good 30 years til that though. Never take anything for granted.

[@zin8324]

You mentioned that “w” isn’t a classical french letter so i stopped on 2:52 and ended up doing a research about that and found great stuff.. Thank you!

[@pumpkingreen31]

omg respect to all the blind people out there. I got lost through the video.

[@Enphoso]

Same

[@damonwalsh100]

Eric Perez that really simple and im dyslexic but we all have great memory so i thil i will go more in to this

[@ShilohPark]

Same. Reading with your fingers and not your eyes is hard. Proud for the blind tho.

[@stapuft]

Why is it so needlessly complicated? Feeling the plain letters seems much easier...

[@ogelbeh]

@@stapuft this is more effecient for blind people due to its simplicity. They can easily slide their finger across the surface without wasting time feeling for a tail to differentiate an O from Q. People who are born blind also wouldn't know the letter shapes we use and the dots would be much simpler to learn because each letter follows the same format rather than an obscure squiggle shape.

[@bakes887]

I can read braille but not with my fingers. Kind of defeats the point.

[@swirlingfizz9990]

Lol ye the thumbnail on the video 😆😆 it says jelly

[@Karina_frfr]

I'm watching this for my first time and I already can read it, I wrote something for my parents to read and their brain went dead because they couldn't read what it said, also the thumbnail says jelly in braille

[@devinsisco4101]

U must be stupid

[@Ahn-mu3db]

@@devinsisco4101 ur dumb as fuck

[@onesyphorus]

I can scan with toe

[@sombiee]

oh wow that story was really effective for memorising braille, I got all the answers right, although I did have to count the alphabet with my fingers

[@kajalvirjianu3335]

Very nice

[@tcd3077]

Same lol

[@hahahello1885]

Oh my god I know I’m two years late but saaame

[@louisemanuel3109]

I've now created my own mnemonics for remember each pairing from the first row to the second

[@sewoh100]

Definitely gona show this video to my blind friends who want to learn Braille

[@cabbageman3456]

KineticCat lol

[@Justintime_1]

I keep seeing these types of jokes a lot but they really aren't that funny as somebody could simply watch it and then show their blind friend it by teaching it to them.

[@exocakes4587]

Reading this comment is like listening to a man with no legs say "Break a leg" or a man with no arms say "I need a hand".

[@limediamond4595]

KineticCat wait...

[@m35926]

Took me a second

[@rickdunn4361]

I never realized people can get so hyped over Braille...then I read the comments. My entire life is a lie

[@CreeketsCreek]

I need to learn braille okay? It is useful, for... ehrm... stuff! XD Seriously though, I once found an "exit" sign that said "exit" only in braille and they forgot to write it down with normal letters... So yeah XD

[@IkarusFlight]

I always wanted to learn it. To be able to pretend to speak freely, while I read something under the desk.

[@HaloPwNnCrab]

Have you tried speaking and focusing on a conversation while reading normally? It's pretty damn hard and if you can't do that, it's not likely you can do it with braille either. You will always either be neglecting the convo or the book

[@IkarusFlight]

Hippy Lemonz I don't talk about conversations. I talk about speeches.

[@HaloPwNnCrab]

Ted Logan Haha, I'm not sure you'd be a very engaging speaker. I can only imagine that you'd be speaking and then slowly trail off into silence, then start speaking again and the cycle repeats. All while the audience is wondering what the fuck is going on 😂

[@IkarusFlight]

Is that what happens when you read? :-P Then you should never use a teleprompter.

[@HaloPwNnCrab]

Ted Logan Well, teleprompters are quite a bit easier due to them being one train of thought 🙂

[@leontius5502]

Is this video for blind people?? Well yes, but actually no

[@JamButter123]

Leontius my friend’s friend who is blind and still uses any social media by using her voice and device for blind people to read and understand what are they saying.

[@InOneLesson]

@steventaylortteca Thanks for the comment! I've changed the video description to "vision impaired" from "visually impaired."

[@InOneLesson]

@meemeekoeX Thanks for the comments, I'm glad this was helpful! The first punctuation mark is the comma, the apostrophe is just dot 3 raised. There is a great resource for braille punctuation at brl.org

[@adventuresoftheabbotttclan2828]

My friend came up to me the other day and said "you know, the girls' toilets have braille on the door. I finally know what it's like to feel women."

[@pathosofmine]

s t o p .

[@kathvodkath]

I tried so much to memorize the letters a few time ago and now you've explained it so easyly... mindblown.

[@InOneLesson]

@inmate223 I'm glad that you're benefiting from this video and want to share it. Thank you for your comment, God bless you!

[@pikachu3b366m]

Wow this is surprisingly easy to memories. I think the difficult part is your sense of touch. Trying to figure out what the sign is without seeing is gonna be difficult. Idk how blind people can read these so quickly. Truly impressive.

[@AlejoEremita]

Nooo, I've been binging on this channel for the last hour only to find out your last video was from 5 years ago... Come back!!!

[@astridlafere6707]

This was sooo helpful and that story helped out a ton. I didnt expect that I'd be able to memorize it but it's so simple! Now all I have to do is retain this info lol

[@sabralowe84]

I have been teaching myself braille for the past year and while I have learned to read and write grade one braille this video was a nice refresher and has definitely helped and hopefully the videos on grade two braille will help me finally learn grade 2 thank you so much for posting

[@InOneLesson]

@kazuma13 I've finished up the outline for the video so now I just have to clean up a few things and then I'll create the script, record the audio and sync up the slides. Shouldn't be too much longer. Hope it'll be worth the wait for you!

[@MasterChef-ux3gk]

"....." Blind people: wheeze, **slaps table**

[@madayrose]

How did u know I was wheezing? Or blind? Creepy

[@mavmav0YT]

I have perfect vision, I don't need to know braille. Why am I here :O

[@WalnutSpice]

You probably wouldn't be ~watching~ a video about anything

[@nickmarsala3787]

Because it's always good to know something if God forbid you ever became blind. Learning something new is always wonderful to do.

[@EldritchCloak]

AirDragon helps you cheat in tests

[@peterforrest3424]

I was same lost sight in one eye 30 years ago and now good chance other will go so i am learning Braille now.also music keyboard.

[@rachelthomas5120]

Because Braille is awesome

[@InOneLesson]

@ronitravels Thanks for the comment! I'm glad this was helpful for you.

[@michellebrooker5779]

Fantastic resource - I'm just starting to learn braille and this has made things alot easier to understand. Thank you

[@zaharainvestment3509]

This was an amazing Lesson, so well explained, thank you so much. Look forward to Grade 2 Braille.

[@blindbrad4719]

And yet, he could have made it accessible for actual blind people to learn braille.

[@josedelatorre7696]

can’t wait for the blind to see this video! truly inspiring.

[@thefellows8484]

bro 💀

[@kiratemple8025]

My eyes are perfectly fine but I found myself watching this bliss KZbin, Molly Burke gotta love her, and next thing I know I’m learning Braille. Also, I was so proud of myself when I got the two words right. I legit stopped the video for like 4 mins just trying to figure it out. Respect for the Braille readers!

[@lilliank3542]

She's part of the reason I decided to learn Braille!

[@Jordanwfisher]

Great work, I kinda figured out there was a pattern from a-j and k-t while reading about braille on wikipedia but you have cleared it up so well, you made my day.

[@MERTZY]

Really interesting

[@lucidboi5334]

Never thought I'd see your comment here

[@skyyz_1477]

hi bro

[@christianfletes1]

Why would a Rocket League Pro Player be watching how to read Braille? Just to let you know, I respect your channel. I really love watching your videos bro! ❤️

[@Potatochipsanddip]

I now not only know Morse code some what (it takes me a while to remember the alphabet but with enough time I’ll be fine) but I also know the brail alphabet. Learning the alphabet in different ways is honestly really cool. I’m now gonna try and learn the alphabet in sign language.

[@jelindayma5825]

Same as me

[@UnclearMind]

So many things happened in the last 14 years But rest assured, sir, knowing that your video is still appreciated to this very day.

[@delphy13]

Thanks so much. I decided 10 min ago to learn braille to see what it looks like.I have a big memory, but more important, you made a perfect lesson, i know it by heart now!. Thanks so much

[@LMF5000]

Wow, this method is amazing. I watched the video without pausing and I was actually able to guess the "c" and "a" in "cat" (I remembered the "closed" gate means horizontal line, means top two dots). I'm amazed I managed to memorize that in just 7 minutes, your method rocks!

[@nightrix4904]

As a person from the BVI community I think it's nice to see these kinds of videos on youtube.

[@medula444]

That was an amazing lesson! Thank you for making it so simple!

[@TheBlindYoutuberr]

Hi, I'm a blind student at the TSBVI (texas school for the blind or visual inpaired) and I got an award for the best braille reader and contracted braille reader. contracted braille is a shorter version of braille. like the word t h e it's the dots 2 3 4 6 which is also known as grade 2 braille.

[@WokWongz]

Holy shit who let that blind guy jump a river on a motorcycle !

[@theelephantintheroom69]

I'm blind, and this is very helpful for me. Wait...

[@nathanaelmalm5641]

@@znk753 exactly

[@CommentsRage]

@@znk753 How are you supposed to know what a cell looks like when you can't fucking see

[@Missprincessbabyblue]

@@CommentsRage being blind doesn't mean u literally can't see or its all black. Most of their eye sight is just very unclear and very blury. Which makes it hard for them.

[@mominairfan2104]

May He give brightness in your eyes

[@madayrose]

@Namer I use text to speech especially spoken text since I have tunnel vision/ peripheral vision. I have usher syndrome so my vision isn't that good. 👁👄👁

[@pauswa1966]

I want to learn something new every day. Even if I don't master it, I will have at least heard of the concept and will have a very basic understanding of it. This is an excellent video to teach the layman the basic concept of Braille. Well done.

[@edcohen9843]

Many thanks for a very clear, very concise intro to Grade 1 Braille!

[@allaboutglaucomajasmynpoli7681]

Braille is awesome! My favorite is grade 2 ! I love it because you can use more words to write sentences and challenge yourself. I feel like Braille has made me more confident in myself and able to do things without sight! Thank you God for allowing Louis Braille to create a wonderful writing system to help all blind and visually impaired people be successful in life!

[@Chloe-im9rc]

Why does the thumbnail say Jelly though

[@faridanurieva1512]

Youknow Idontknow cuz Braille is his jam..

[@eimanyounis762]

I just noticed😂

[@totallyasher]

@@faridanurieva1512 lmao

[@danielleanderson6371]

Wow, I actually learned it well enough just from this video to go and write some messages for my partner in Braille, and I only had to check back for some of the punctuation.

[@B.ermluv]

I learned braille 15 years ago so, sometimes i forgot the letters but this type of videos help me to remember the way that they are written.

[@didimajeed]

This is a useless skill for me but im gonna learn it anyways cause....maybe it will be usefull one day?

[@louisemanuel3109]

and that's what learning is all about. You learn it first then work out where the hell you're ever going to need it. Useful for keypad numeric password creations?

[@ultimAvalon]

mindblowing... thanks so much for a clear explenation and great voice for the video!

[@ernestorodriguez6128]

GREAT VIDEO, just kept on re watching and memorizing. THANK YOU!

[@loonathefoxgirl6375]

Thank you very much for this video. It will benefit myself and many others in the future. Keep making more of them.

[@philtrash2890]

Thanks for that, as a visually impaired person trying to adapt, this really helped :)

[@garrysmith1029]

You're scaring me

[@norashine]

This was a great explanation! Thank you. It's like cracking a logical code.

[@acevanchurro1148]

good job man..........this will help parents learn the basics so they can teach their kids to read braille kudos to you for helping me learn braille so I can help others

[@MrGallagher]

This was so well done. So informative. You've expertly explained what appears to be complicated into its fascinating and quite well-organized system. Thank you. By the by, when are the next parts coming out?

[@2AmBr]

Thank you - very helpful.

[@michaelundas1212]

"OK, but I can't see the video because I'm blind"... Hey, what if there were braille videos????? You could feel out the texture of the video, almost like a pop-up book. THAT'S IT!!! I'm going on Shark Tank!!! LOL ;)

[@calfischer1149]

Seriously dude

[@SavannahSorton]

Lol you can't feel a flat glass screen

[@vickyneville4456]

Shut up

[@HueHanaejistla]

there is actual technology that could make this possible, converting RGB into a height measure on a pin board screen, though it would only be useful for digital Braille books or such as you can’t really feel an image

[@Sajid009]

That was amazing! I almost learned it all in the first try! If I watch it more carefully (which I didn't, cuz rn, I just wanted a little taste of it) I would learn it in no time with this explanation!

[@rml695]

as someone who's known Braille since elementary school, I have never seen a more creative way to teach. The story made me smile and laugh. :)

[@91msJill]

rml695 Can you tell me what the picture for "Harley" is supposed to be?

[@00chouette]

I discovered your video yesterday, and learnt that today was the international braille day. Coincidence? ^^

[@CouncilEstatePopMusic]

thanks for this. my medication pack has braille on it so it'll be easy to remember, training my finger tips may take some time though!!!

[@ailinos]

That's so cool :)

[@MrArthoz]

Thank you so much for making this very easy to understand. My family have a genetic problem where if got diabetes it could cause the blood cells in the eyes to be damaged and some of my cousins and uncle could no longer properly see. Someday I might go blind myself....hopefully life would never be empty as long as I could still read.

[@dracosummoner]

This is a wonderful, wonderful teaching tool. Thank you so much.

[@amauro1385]

A person with 20/20 vision here getting this in their recommended. I feel like it’s telling me something

[@camacaron06]

No Braille is actually LEGO bricks seen from above

[@wordedpuppet6278]

*are

[@ifitistobeitisuptome]

Thats very interesting, I've always wondered how Braille works. Excellent video, very clear and easy to understand. Thank you.

[@beafboy01]

This is amazing, something to put on the CV I guess. Thanks a bunch, so easy to learn...

[@asdfghjkl1aff196]

it was a good lesson but I have a question, what about other languages do they use the same letters or what?

[@AUnicorn666]

No.

[@girlsniteout]

No.

[@roomijsjeeee]

No.

[@54sofree54]

Nope

[@baf03]

No

[@cadederrick6751]

I should show this to my blind friend.

[@ali3nch1ck12]

Donald Trump S Not sure that'll work... depending on their level of sight.

[@hughmungus3415]

WOW RLLY

[@musiclover7004]

Really what?

[@harkharring2572]

Lol

[@SabrinasLaptop]

Well done and very clear. Thank you for posting.

[@InOneLesson]

@MrGallagher Thank you, that's very kind. I hope to have Grade 2 Braille completed soon but it may be a little while. Its proving to be a little bit more difficult to simplify and consolidate than I had expected. Thanks for the interest.

[@otomodachifan]

Do a Morse Code lesson please!

[@AVERYhornyMrDinosaur]

1:18 that is not what a harley looks like

[@folkpilot6631]

ikr....

[@nejx8711]

dgs .astgh Can someone plz tell me a harley is?😂

[@folkpilot6631]

KobraNejc 420 a type of a motorcycle

[@theodorkollerd2524]

It's an arm stretching out, just before shaking someones hand

[@harkharring2572]

It’s supposed to look like someone grabbing the handles of a motorcycle so you have the body and the arm. It’s better described in the part 1 of grade 2 video.

[@photon2724]

i completely lost my eyesight 10 years ago. never learnt braille. was browsing youtube and came across this video. I thought today would be a good idea so i could finally read my picture book. great video. i now know basics of braille. thank you. Cant wait to watch the next video. Ill browse the comments till then.

[@ivana9541]

if you completely lost your eyesight how are you seeing again? did you get surgery?

[@photon2724]

@@ivana9541 r/whoooooooooosh H...Ho..How...is that the only thing you found wrong?!?

[@GG256_]

This is what youtube was made for. This is awesome.

[@kelvintrinh6483]

Daredevil brought me here.

[@youtubeluffy2142]

Kelvin Trinh me to

[@xxpaulaxxlove5907]

Same 😂

[@Mickalyto]

⠠⠓⠊⠞ ⠕⠗ ⠍⠊⠎⠎

[@pristiq.]

..................F*** u

[@jackoonz]

hit or miss ⠊⠛⠥⠑⠎⠎ ⠞⠓⠑⠽ ⠝⠑⠧⠑⠗ ⠍⠊⠎⠎ ⠓⠥⠓

[@Kyon]

Absolutely wonderful! Thank you.

[@shannonbriggs100]

Thanks! I am a quick learner and have memorized this in an hour.

[@KennyRogacki]

Who's here trying to watch the skating channel braille

[@0001234567771]

yeah lol

[@SG-255]

Braille aka Lego

[@Howtoeatrocks]

There is braille-lego

[@kynigosthewolf4573]

I wanted to say thank you. I am 17. I was recently diagnosed with an anamolous form of glaucoma, that is progressing very quickly. I'm expected to go blind sometime in the next 5 years, even with treatment. I was struggling to learn braille, but this helped a ton.

[@christianfletes1]

God Bless You girl or man!!

[@AndreHypnosis]

That was a great video! Thank you for sharing this knowledge.

[@gus9132]

It's channels like this one that should make big money on KZbin. Not some stupid gamer channel like pewdiepie.. or other.

[@seanfletcher212]

First of all he doesn't know shit about braille there is way more to it than letters he's a fucking idiot

[@Xatzimi]

+Sean Fletcher Because this is only grade 1 level. He explains that there's more stuff later, and they're in his other videos.

[@ThePrinceHasArrived]

I agree MrDANK!

[@luxlox9029]

' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' '

[@xyz7572]

, , , , ,

[@poppycock3954]

"love"

[@nildasalguero4567]

Jozie Charles hai

[@eimanyounis762]

I'm so proud of myself that I understood it

[@eimanyounis762]

😂

[@Leorhit]

I don't know why or how i'm here but you kept me here and i learned some braille! I even did the exercices seriously! haha

[@julbombning4204]

Very well explained and easy to understand! Thanks!

[@lindam.7819]

Who else came here from Pokemon? #REGIPUZZLES

[@ritsuki0305]

I did.

[@NicknooVision]

Me too XDXD

[@Lotlus]

using this for cheating :p

[@syok4929]

You're a fucking hero haha

[@a-rex]

Lotlus this is literally the best idea

[@marley-yf8or]

Lotlus how exactly

[@sapphirelheart]

But if you're actually going to put effort into learning something to help you cheat why don't you just put effort into the thing you're doing the exam on xD

[@jessmclean117]

It's not as fun to do it the legit way

[@namronromedlab5446]

Thanks for the video, i've always wanted to learn this!

[@user-qm9wd3pg1t]

I pretty much learned it within the first 3 minutes, i need it to read books before sleep without light, because i have insomnia I don’t think there are books in braille where i live, but still i am going to learn it Thanks for the great video

[@sirzyr]

I learned it FIRST TRYYYYY

[@yoshtg]

braille skateboarding LUL

[@apexpredator8039]

Kymate lol ikr

[@nijigon03]

Im so bored im gonna learn braille...

[@girlanachronism9332]

wow. how did you make this so easy to learn?! i had no idea it would be so simple! Thank you, thank you thank you!!! ♥

[@slaywee]

what is surprsing about YT is one minute you listening a song, next you watching the Avengers trailer break down and now you are learning Braille. Literally YT has weird pattern

[@mattgsm]

0:37 otherwise known as a volcel

[@believeinpeace]

What an amazing teacher. Thank you for this lesson

[@MrUnix-xf8dq]

This is so surprisingly easy, everyone should take a day to learn this!

[@Draxel]

You're an incredibly good teacher.