The Ponca language has less than a dozen speakers, but this online dictionary I developed with certainly help pass the language on to the next generation. The website has thousands of Ponca words and comes with a built-in keyboard for Ponca letters that don't occur in the English alphabet.
This website is meant to train casino dealers to pay out dozens of different games from Baccarat to Blackjack, including lesser-known games that can be found in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
Nearly 200 years ago, Louis Braille invented an alphabet of raised dots to allow blind people to read with their hands. Converting entire books to Braille used to be very tedious, but my website lets anyone convert any text to Braille instantly. In the present day, Braille is used around the world for over a hundred languages, most of which are included on my multilingual website.
While the text you're reading now is in the familiar Latin alphabet, it's just one of dozens of writing systems used around the world. The quizzes on this website aim to teach you the basics of reading dozens of languages from Arabic to Yiddish.
Braille is a tactile system of writing designed to allow visually-impaired people to read and write. Cells composed of dots form various patterns which correspond to letters, numbers, or punctuation marks. Braille has been developed for many languages to adapt to the various alphabets and writing systems used around the world.
Braille was invented by Louis Braille in the 19th century to write allow blind people to read the French alphabet, and it was soon adapted to other major languages around the world. Generally, Braille is similar across languages; for example, the Braille symbol ⠙ represents the letter D in Spanish Braille, D in Italian Braille, D in Indonesian Braille, and even the equivalent letter Delta (Δ) in Greek Braille. In 1953 UNESCO established international standards regarding the uniformity of braille alphabets which govern patterns to follow for the creation of new Braille alphabets. I reach out to communities around the world and follow UNESCO's guidelines to develop new Braille alphabets to help visually-impaired people.
After reading about how Braille works in different languages, I wanted to develop it for smaller languages in order to help aid their revitalization and do my part to help reverse the global trend of language loss.
I am not blind and neither was anyone I knew growing up. Through my work, I have become friends with blind people around the world.
While I can speak a bit of Polish, Italian, Greek, and some other languages, the only languages I speak fluently are Spanish and my native language, English.
I was born in New York City, grew up in the Silicon Valley, and went to university in Washington DC where I remained for a couple years after I graduated.
After traveling around the country for the past year, I moved to New York City to June.