you DON'T need to SEE this video (BRAILLE memorization tutorial)

[@NelsonDellis]

hi

[@greecko13]

First lol

[@mrlinuxosu7757]

o _ _ o o o o _ _ _ _ _

[@simiphukan467]

Can u make vdo to remember lines n numbers together when spoken at speed

[@amirPenton]

So great to see this video! I’ve never seen a braille tutorial show the associations between letters like AKU and BLV that you did, that was *such* a nice touch and it helped SO MUCH! Thanks for all you do Nelson, you’re the boss & such an inspiration to me

[@anakimluke]

you forgot the twitch link! NotLikeThis

[@dolby6013]

This actually means a lot. My brother is blind, so I learned braille as a kid to help him out. And finding out people is really interested in learning braille to help other people makes me really proud . :)

[@keepyourfaith3472]

Is this UEB or EBAE code?

[@komal_Aryan7858]

🤗🤗🤗💞

[@nihalbhamrah4726]

Not really i don’t care 🤷

[@nikiTricoteuse]

​@@nihalbhamrah4726Yet you care enough to watch a video about braille and be an arsehole in the comments. You need to get out more.

[@ROKillUminati47]

I swear, I'll say this all my life: Braille and your native language's Sign Language should be taught in schools. There's no guarantee that you'll always have your sight or hearing all your life - besides, it'll be super helpful especially in your elderly years so... Win-win

[@ericagestelle9655]

Thank you for pointing this out! I will be adding it to my list of things to touch on in homeschooling!

[@talialeora]

I'd add Morris code because why not

[@talialeora]

And knot tying....

[@ROKillUminati47]

@@talialeora yes, agreed. I know a very interesting story regarding Morse code: Jeremiah Denton was a POW and sent a Morse code message by blinking while he was forced to record a video saying everything is OK. So yeah, we'll probably never need it in our lives, but you never know!!!

[@danielsykes7558]

True & if you're passing notes in the dark, in war (heavens hope not), or on the other side of a coffee shop, you can communicate

[@resourceress7]

I learned from the deafblind guy who taught Braille at an organization where I used to work that it's much better to use little rubber duckies with a flat bottom surface instead of tennis balls, or any other kind of balls, in the muffin tin. Because when they roll off and bounce away he couldn't hear where they went. And even if you can hear where they went why would you want to spend all your time searching for them - especially if you are blind or low vision. Plus, the rubber duckies had little round heads, so they made good muffin tin braille dots, too.

[@miriamdixon3850]

I am a braille teacher with 42 years experience. Great video! I will use it for my students. One small correction, though. A cell by definition is a 3 by 2 rectangle with 6 dots. W is dots (not cells) 2 4 5 6. It is one cell. W points west. That is my only improvement. Everything else is correct.

[@lukeyxo]

thank you w points west is way better than the shape of w

[@jeffireymurdock2073]

It depends because the original language was made by a classical French speaker and because w isnt a part of the language there is some variants of it

[@SafirHamduilah]

@@jeffireymurdock2073 w is pronounced "dooble-v"

[@ninjaguyYT]

​@@lukeyxobut it points left. :o

[@lyingcat9022]

@@ninjaguyYT That's west on a map or globe.

[@sulu758]

I've been diagnosed with macular degeneration, and I need to learn braille for the time my eyesight goes. So, this video really helps a lot!

[@timmahsound]

How are you doing now? Can you still see?

[@sulu758]

@@timmahsound Yes - The opthalmalogist says that I have the problem where that debris at the bottom of the lens is inside not outside. (I don't really understand it...) But I'm okay!

[@timmahsound]

@@sulu758 great to hear!

[@anda9169]

Did you learn Braille?

[@sulu758]

I started learning Braille, but then I got the good news. Thanks for asking! :)

[@devnanji2754]

Insane video. Literally learned Braille just by watching. No flashcards, hours of writing or practicing, etc. You are brilliant!

[@markmywords3817]

Do you still remember braille 3 years later? Unfortunately, it will only stick permanently if you practiced it frequent enough.

[@devnanji2754]

⁠@@markmywords3817Honestly, after 3 years I was only able to remember a few letters. I haven’t actively practiced, but thanks to your comment, I was able to revisit and solidify my understanding of Braille once again. This video made it as easy as I remembered. Much appreciated!

[@GretSeat]

I can't believe I just learned Braille. Wtf. Your method with the apple and bat, etc I memorized the entire story almost immediately, and then since braille is super intuitive I got the rest quickly. Thank you Nelson. This is incredible. I immediately went and looked up a site for braille tests, and I started at 77%, then 88% and then 100%. This is so awesome.

[@geoffdandrews]

Yep, I can’t believe it was this easy to learn braille, in about 20 minutes for me. Incredible video.

[@X-157.98]

@@GretSeat great idea re test site...off I go 🙂

[@Zerbey]

Great explanation, I remember learning Braille in elementary school because we had a blind student and since we were kids we all picked it up in a matter of days. Much harder as an adult of course. I totally forgot about the patterns, but your method really helps!

[@amirPenton]

My notes/personal take: A: Apple B: bat C: car D: detour E: exit or empty gas tank pointer F: F-shape (dots 1,2,4) G: gas or full square (dots 1,2,4,5) H: house w/chimney or letter h shape I: ice cream (opposite of E) J: J-shape Letter associations: AKU = Alaska University (Apple => school) BLV = bee love CMX = CarMaX DNY = DeNY or Detour --> NY (New York) EOZ = Exit to OZ FP = The FP (movie) or similar shaped letters GQ = similar shaped letters (both look like Braille shape too) HR = Human Resources IS = the word “is” JT = JeT Others: W: sideways W Numbers: dots 3,4,5,6 (everything except 1,2 is how I remember) End of numbers: dots 5,6 (kind of like the opposite of 1,2 is how I remember... idk but it seems to work) Nelson is the boss, thanks so much! I mentioned this in another comment, but the letter associations is something that I’ve never seen before in a Braille tutorial and it helps *so much* with being able to quickly determine which letter goes to what. Something that’s slightly related: the letters in the word EJOTY are the 5th, 10th, 15th, 20th, and 25th in the alphabet, so you can use that little mnemonic word to help you determine what number any letter in the alphabet is.

[@aailah.f8564]

Isn't W 2,4,5,6?

[@amirPenton]

@@aailah.f8564 yes

[@moony2703]

Thanks so much for the notes! It’s a great quick reference for the video as well as the other adaptations. :)

[@SarahMichelle777]

Thats awesome thank you.

[@JackOfClubsBlog]

This comment should be pinned.

[@LoriPoulin]

I am 52 and just learning due to 2 retinal detachment surgeries and possible vison loss in the future, this vid is so great! Thank you!

[@nature3116]

Hi I am a new blind and I have learnt TalkBack can I use screen reader on my computer but I was thinking of learning braille as well because you may never know when you will need it and I found you video it is super helpful I just watched it once and I think I have already memorized Braille letters and will watch it a couple of times more to be good at it. This video is really a great piece of help and very good work thank you

[@moony2703]

Just downloaded the Braille Academy app and did levels 1-5 fairly easily thanks to this video and the helpful reference notes in one of the other comments. Most of my mistakes so far have simply been my brain being too quick on the trigger Eg. sometimes going ‘Bee!’ instead of getting to the next bit with ‘Bee LoVe’ and entering L or V instead. So even when I make mistakes the foundational knowledge is still solid. I do like that so far the app hasn’t had a timer on things rushing me, which means I can also take my time and reference the video’s comment reference notes when a new letter combo appears. Repeating the key words/references out loud as I enter the answer also helps it stick.

[@JoshandElanaZana]

I’m 12 and had cataract surgery as a baby. I love to read and I’m worried one day I won’t be able to anymore. Thanks to your tutorial now I will!

[@photelegy]

7:29 I love how you say the "wrong" word (which blind people can hear) and correct it written with the "right" word (which blind people can't see) 😅 Genious ✌🏻😉

[@E102Gaming]

yeah, first thing I did when I was watching this video was to close my eyes and see how well it actually works for blind people and I got lost very fast. It's definitely a failure of a video for blind people.

[@SharonCurtis7]

Genius

[@landsgevaer]

​@@E102Gaming Hmm, I think one should not let a seeing person judge whether a blind person can follow this. Blind people have made all kinds of adaptations in their lives. The fact that he made an effort to nmake it accessible deserves some praise.

[@photelegy]

@@E102Gaming But to be fair I wouldn't have done better 😉👍🏻

[@FT029]

I often do "hunt puzzles", where one of the steps is some cipher such as braille. I've always had to look it up; this was really helpful in memorizing it!

[@davidcovington901]

Same-old same-old greatness. Thanks! I'll be reading the bumps below the written letters of my building's door signs now.

[@angelinefaithplan8797]

This is really a fun way to learn braille. I did memorize it in just 12 mins and its my first time to try to learn braille.

[@heatshield]

This is the weirdest Carmax commercial I’ve ever seen. I won’t be using your extra stuff like that right away because I know there’s know way I’ll remember it. Your visuals with the muffin tin and tennis balls, and your explanation of the indicators in 3 and 6 are enormously useful. Also the switch objects from numbers to letters. Unbelievable! I never thought there was any pattern or object like that. Just sssumed you had to memorize absolutely everything so I never even tried. Thank you. Seriously. A lot.

[@katrineee7092]

Watched this video, and learned braille alphabet with such ease! Took me an hour or two, next day - I still remember everything. Thank you

[@staple_gun6367]

Holy crap. I actually learned this and knew everything you spelled at the end without looking at any notes or anything. After the initial explanation, I wrote the entire alphabet without any reference and then checked my work. From there, I was able to read your examples.

[@haidaralhassan4621]

7:29 The fact that he's apologising to us for using the word "see" instead of "feel" and doesn't voice it over for the people that might be mad at is hilarious 😂😂 Great video btw!!

[@solandge36]

I was just taking a quickl youtube break and now I know braille? WTH?. Keep it coming nelzor!

[@nathankoh7247]

Making a story out of letters is actually how we solve Rubik's cubes blindfolded! Each edge "sticker" on the cube has a position labeled with a letter A-X, and the same with corners. Pick an edge to start with and figure out the sequence in which you need to swap edges until all edges are solved, and move on to the corners. We remember the sequence by remembering the letters each sticker is associated with and coming up with a short story. Often we'll also employ the same strategy you used when describing how different letters belong to a subset based on shape and indicator dots on the bottom: pair up the letters and make them into one word that's easy to remember.

[@suran396]

That didn't make any sense. Is there a video on this? Or can you explain it better?

[@cmyk8964]

Believeait or not, that little “apple, bat, car, ..., house, ice cream, jog” animation really helped.

[@theeflatlander]

I watched this video 5 days ago. And just now randomly thought about braille. I remembered most of it!

[@dmr778810]

I actually wanted to learn a few months back. And here you are, helping me out, yet again.

[@xdragon2k]

I thought the mnemonic at the beginning was dumb as we know how the alphabet was ordered. But then I realized the genius. I read everything you assigned first try. I just learned Braille in 12 minutes.

[@PaisagensRelaxantes5]

I don't know how, but me too LOL

[@asmaqadeer8243]

Thank you so much for making learning braille, scrip that I love the most - Though I am not blind but reading in braille has become my passion since 2004 - Wow ! Brilliant 👏👏👏👏

[@heatherbrown3685]

Thank you... I had no interest of need to learn this, but KZbin popped it up and I am glad I watched! I think I will need to watch it a couple more times to fully get it down, but I am excited to use my new knowledge someday! 💙

[@jeopardy60611]

I am sighted, and I picked up Braille because I designed an application to read email and web pages over the phone, which was marketed to the blind. I had a Braille documentation book done for my application and got interested in learning Braille from seeing my documentation transcribed. Learning Braille made me realize what it's like to not be fully literate, because I find that I see words one letter at a time in Braille, rather than having them automatically come together real fast when I read print.

[@joiscara7191]

I self taught in elementary. A is alpha, always on top. B is beta 2 and below. C is CEE with two Es. D is pointing Right and F is pointing Left. E is diagonal Left, and I is diagonal Right. G is gangster in a group of four. H is a mirrored J, and J is J. K are snake eyes. L is lowercase L. M is two dots top, one dot below, mirrored with U. N is Arrow Pointing Right Up, and Z is Right Down. O is omega inside the triad. P is an upside down V. Q is literally P. R is R in dot form, and W is mirrored. S is an unfinished R. T is Tetris. X is connecting line dots. Y is a C that’s almost like an E.

[@keepyourfaith3472]

First time learning anything braille. Got all the questions at the end correct and quickly. I'm impressed with how you teach. Thank you!

[@eusou0]

Amazing work, Nel! I can't believe I hadn't watched this before. Your video on Morse Code was just as great, and it helped me a lot! It's been 20 minutes and I can read sentences in Braille because of your quick and candid explanations!!

[@elmalleable]

Love how you are taking memory techniques to tackle new skills for fun and learn. I've been wondering, if muscle memory is really brain memory, then; shortcuting initial memory acquisition using memory techniques can leave us with more brain power to focus on practice rather than trying hard to remember what the next step of something is. I think you could demonstrate this by making a video series on acquiring a new skill like piano or guitar or asl but with a buddy who doesn't use memóry techniques. And try to Guage when the skill becomes routine for you VS the friend. You do have a leg up in braille, asl and cubing so maybe piano or flying an fpv drone in acro mode.

[@Michael-ql7kq]

7:24 him speaking: SEE and he's WRITING "feel". So betrayal.

[@SarahMichelle777]

Oh my gosh I wish youtube had existed back in the early 80’s when i was teaching myself Braille! What a great way to remember it.

[@rajeshwaripawar3806]

You earned a new subscriber. Saw your Morse code video and it was really great.

[@shivajikumarram577]

Many many thanks Nelson sir, with your short and sweet video., I have learnt braille alphabet & numbers in just week . Ur a great teacher.❤

[@lordbaybilon8058]

Man, I actually learned it, it's very easy with this method, thanks

[@herringnjd]

Amazing, just read the braille on a medication box, It's still a struggle but not bad for 15 minutes, now I just need to feel the cells.

[@robyroad_]

Awesome, after watching the video i did some exercises and i made only few errors. I never thought i'b be able to memorize Braille so fast, thank you.

[@alexkilgrow725]

Stumped me in the last one. Thought for sure I had misremembered a letter! Very helpful vid!

[@feel-the-rain85]

It's a great explanation for people who can still see. I could easily learn it with just memorizing the pictures you put in the video. But I think that it would be much harder without the pictures. Just think about the exit sign.

[@lawnmower16]

Wow, I was able to read them all (albeit I had to stop and think a bit first) with no prior instruction. This is awesome

[@vickikonishi6229]

So useful! THank you. I heard that I should learn Braille, so am starting it now while I can still see, and the quick memory tips are so great! Thank you!

[@Acleris]

You are such a great teacher!! You blew my mind when i actually correctly guessed the answers to those pop quiz towards the end, even though i never thought about learning braille until 10 min ago... Now all i gotta do is actually learning to read using my finger, which is probably x1000 harder 😂

[@NelsonDellis]

Thank you!

[@lialara343]

Seeing how teachable this is makes me extra disappointed it isn't taught in schools to the general population. Sign language too. No reason not to introduce students to different forms of communication.

[@vamothvam4614]

I appreciate this video. I needed it for my studies to care for children with special needs. Thank you Very much!

[@crystalperry6370]

I will have to watch several times. But I always like to learn something new. Thank you! 👍

[@moniquekelly1725]

An awesome inspiring video on learning Braille. It is on my to do list now. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and skills. Staying inspired! MK Australia

[@8greatkids303]

I found your video to be extremely helpful in the mini videos that I watched while trying to learn braille yours was very easy and helpful to understand thank you I really appreciate it I lost my vision about nine years ago and it has been really difficult although I do still have some vision in one eye I do feel the need to learn braille so again thank you🙏

[@shubhamg9495]

I LEARNT BRAILLE IN 12 MINUTES WOOOHOOOO!! Just wrote down some words and all of them were correct :) Thanks!

[@denisecomeau4158]

Thank you so much!! I really want to learn it to teach it to my middle schoolers. This makes this so much easier for me and it will translate into easier for my students.

[@kittymervine6115]

this story trick is how my daughter, who has extreme dyslexia, learned her times tables and also she was allowed to use so many items that help the blind. Her cousin is actually blind, as by her just being "blind" and "thinking in pictures" (thank you Temple Grandin), she could. learn as quickly as her cousin could. Bless the blind community for helping those with dyslexia!

[@hdskl2150]

My 5 year old son is very fascinated by braille. We saw it on a ticket booth for the train a few weeks ago and he keeps brining it up. We are not visually impaired but I want to encourage his interest and hope it helps someone.

[@reesescreases]

the accident that lead to infection which blinded Louie Braille was with an awl, the same tool he used to write braille, later

[@EpicMonkeyFries]

Nelson, do you think you could apply this to shorthand? I've always wanted to learn shorthand in order to do very quick journaling, but it seems daunting; and yet, I was quizzing myself a few hours after watching this video, and I was able to remember so much of Braille!

[@isabellach]

going into this I wasn't sure how well it would work, but those silly mnemonics were really helpful. thanks!

[@mikehaynes3845]

Wow, actually got all the tests correct. Great video!

[@ThisCanBePronounced]

That was an awesome video. I love little things like this to quickly learn something one might think (or be told) isn't easy or quick to learn. Even if you don't learn it the whole way, in 12 minutes, the huge progress is enough. It's like 20% expected effort for 80% memorization. Let me propose a slight improvement on the story (as a reminder that everyone should do this to personalize or make it easier to remember). You're about to eat an Apple but your sibling/friend "threatens" with the Bat and then whacks it away. You immediately get in your Car to chase after your precious acor-- I mean, apple, but you're forced to take a Detour onto the highway. You take the first Exit out, but see you're low of Fuel, so you give up and go get Gas, then head Home. No apple, so you get some Ice cream, but then you feel guilty and go for a Jog. And once you have that story, you can add the other details in. You two were at AK U, you Both Love Bees, you got your Car at CarMaX, the Detour was just there to Deny you, Exit should have been Ee-o-zy, barely and inconvenience (or was the End Of your Zen, etc.), Fuel to Fill uP, GQ mag at Gas station, HaiRy Home or Home needs Repair, I Scream for Ice cream, and when you Jog you jog fast to keep up with a distant Jet, and We Were going West.

[@ThisCanBePronounced]

House mnemonic was tough, I'd imagine a corner rowhouse, L-shaped 1-story house (but direction could still be confused), etc. Or maybe the image is the roof and chimney only, because House Roof needs Repair.

[@daffied98]

Thanks for the video. I was always interested in learning braille and now I know bc of you! I hope I will meet some people that are blind in my life so I can help them if they don't know braille yet

[@LetticeTravels]

Great video. I have learnt some Braille now! Please can you do a video about learning IPA (the international phonetic alphabet). Thank you!

[@matrenitski]

Awesome! No idea why, but I learned it and memorized it. It's fun to learn new things! Looking forward to try and read the small letters in my elevator.

[@jimbobleeharry]

Please make a Grade 2 Braille video. This one was incredible and the next would be so viral we would need another lockdown!

[@TomDLuv777]

WOW!! Just what I needed (the memorization part). Immediately subscribed.

[@rahulnjst4u]

Hello Nelson, you really are an inspiration for me, Thanks a ton for the content. I was wondering if you could make a video on How to memorize the american sign language? if its possible? Thankss

[@amirPenton]

He already had one for the ASL alphabet, I believe it was more of a “learn along with Nelson” thing but it is there. I’ll see if I can find it & edit the link in

[@amirPenton]

Okay the ASL alphabet video is literally linked at the end of this one

[@rahulnjst4u]

@@amirPenton Thanks yeah i found it ! :P

[@wilhellmllw3608]

Watched it and took notes, only once! Now I can read everything hahahaha, now gotta study the abbreviations

[@MarceldeJong]

I'm pretty proud of spotting the 1W at the end.

[@RazaXML]

amazing. great mnemonics. i got all 3 examples pretty quickly watching that video only once.

[@francisjacquart9618]

YOUR METHOD IS SIMPLY FABULOUS! THANKS SO MUCH FOR IT!

[@weswes5876]

Amazing lesson! Very easy to understand.

[@iammaybeasliceofpie4674]

That was really fun! Thank you!

[@olafschermann1592]

I recognize you are a remembering pro. Picture stories are the way our brain works great. I myself could remember 100 figure numbers using 2 pictures as a memory address 00-99 adding the content ontop.

[@jcortese3300]

Good god, I'm reading Braille. This was super-cool. I got all of the examples, too. Of course, it's a different thing to do it with your fingers instead of your eyes, but it's a great start. This video is incredibly useful.

[@Coccinelf]

You are a genius! I'm down with covid and I memorized, not everything surely, but all your examples! I took forever to remember the one for "number" though. I was like which letter is this??? lol

[@Quazlyy]

Correcting a spoken "see" to "feel" using written text is just devious 😂

[@aimeerivers]

incredible! i could read your examples by the end! super useful!!

[@markmywords3817]

I'm not blind, but I tried listening to this with eyes closed, and happy to report that I got all the exercises perfectly, even the 1W trick question! I just wasn't sure if A-J mapped to 1-0 or 0-9 so I went with a gamble (and I won the 50/50 haha). I did press the "Left" keys repeatedly to rewind a few seconds when I didn't hear clearly, but the fact that I learned braille in maybe under 30 minutes is insane! I know you combined a lot of memory tricks in this video to make that happen (visualization, mnemonics, memory palace), so learning it felt easy to me but I know on the backend you put a lot of thought to make this happen! So thanks for teaching me a new skill! This lesson will only stick if I tried recalling this a few times the next day. I have a few public places to try this with e.g. elevators

[@NelsonDellis]

@@markmywords3817 ahh that makes me so happy to hear!

[@northkord9306]

Omg! I can’t believe I know how to read braille now because of this video! This is so unexpected for me to learn this quickly! Thx 🙏

[@pritikumaritiwary4850]

I want to teach this to my students .. That's why I am here. Very enlightening👍

[@becci2543]

Thank you for this tutorial on braille! You made this easier to get started in learning the principles of braille.

[@esteemcollectivellc-sz6or]

This is amazing! Thank you for sharing! I just want to mention that your mnemonic remind me of how Michael Scott remembers peoples names😂I love it

[@shivajikumarram577]

Thanks so much for beautiful explanation.

[@rinaisaans]

Thank you Nelson!♡ Adding this to my commonplace book!

[@dutchpropaganda558]

I was like half paying attention to the video, and already memorized it

[@T-Pup12345]

I am a kid, and my friends dad got visually impaired so I would like to learn grail to help him tysm for this tutorial

[@philrichmond7567]

Hi Nelson. Good to see you again.

[@noeyedeer2758]

This was brilliant - I feel I've got the hang of Stage 1. Can you do something for the second Stage please?

[@OnlyHumlan]

This was truly great! Thank you!

[@thematdust]

@NelsonDellis Thanks for this great video. About the W : this letter was officially added in the french alphabet in 1948... Braille created this method more than 100 years before ( by the way he was only 15 when he did it !). The W was then not considered as "a real letter", that's why Braille had no reason to include it in his work !

[@TimVanS]

Didn’t expect to learn this today

[@AJ-qd5cs]

Cool, I always wanted to know how Braille works ! Your videos are great.

[@lyndagabriel6539]

I'll take the exit to OZ... this was great, thanks! P.s. I've never known anything about braille before this video, and I got all your examples (although I had to pause to work them out). This gives me some confidence going forward!

[@Chezboi30003]

I have a blind date tomorrow night. I need to learn braille quick!

[@gbemisolaomokanye8677]

You’re an amazing teacher!

[@NelsonDellis]

Thank you! 😃

[@notfranklin4916]

Wait that's actually wild. I could actually read the word "apex" from just a 10 minute video with no pauses or rewatches. Crazy stuff

[@haraprasadmishra1578]

Awesome I learnt Braille in 2 mins coz of this video, magical video

[@jaynainsync]

I taught the alphabet to my daughter in one evening by using 6 magnetic marbles in each hand, doing a mirror image of each letter's dots in the cell by touching them with the thumbs. That way you learn how to read them by the position in left hand, and write them by the position of the right hand....since we were writing with a slate and stylus...you have to punch from left to right across the page (forming the letters bacwards)and when you turn the paper over, read it right to left. with the letters now apearing forwards.SUPER BRAIN INTEGRATION EXPERIENCE!

[@esferundito]

very interesting video!! learning new stuff is not enough!! 🙂