 This is how to memorize 50 of the 64 Braille cells in one lesson. 50 out of the 64 Braille cells have the exact same pattern of dots as letters A through J with just a few small changes. Let's look at what's different about each row and then we'll come back and see what letters all of these cells represent. The row directly below letters A through J is different in that it also has dot three raised. The next row has both dot three and dot six raised. The row below that just has dot six raised. And finally the last row has the same pattern of dots as letters A through J except they've all been dropped down one position. Now to see what these cells represent, the row with dot three raised represents letters K through T. The row with both dot three and dot six raised represents the letters U through Z without the W and then the words and four of the with. You'll notice that if a cell represents a full word that word is shown in blue instead of black. The row with dot six raised represents two letter contractions such as CH, GH, SH, etc. Contractions by the way are just a way of shortening words so that you don't have to use as many Braille cells to write them. In other words instead of expanding the word we want to contract it to save space. Also some of the cells in this row if used by themselves represent whole words such as TH is the word this if used by itself and the OU is the word out if used by itself. Finally the cell on the end is our missing W and the W if used by itself represents the word will. The last row with all the dots from letters A through J drop down one position also represents contractions such as the letters EA and BE or even the words to, was and by. If you'll remember from the grade one Braille video this row also represents punctuation marks but we'll look at those and some rules for usage in later videos. For now let's see if we can determine how to translate this Braille cell. Well if we remember our story from the grade one Braille video we can determine which of the letters A through J this cell most looks like. So let's see our story was about crossing a river so we approach a bridge but it's closed no it doesn't look like any of those so we take the detour but realize we're on empty so we fill up a fuel and there we go our cell looks like the fuel sign from the F but it also has dots three and six raised which means it's on the third row of the grid that we looked at earlier. So F is the one two three four five sixth letter of the alphabet so now we just have to figure out what the sixth cell is on the third row. Now the second row starts with K and goes through T so the third row starts with U so V is the second cell in that row and then W wait W is in a different row so V is second X is third Y is fourth and Z is fifth. What was after Z? Oh yes it was the word and because the words and four of the width finished out that row. Phew now that was a lot of work. You know it'd be a lot easier if we could just remember the columns from our grid instead of just the rows. In other words if we could remember what cells come below the F we could just think to ourselves okay this looks like the fuel sign in the F and below the F is P with dot three raised and below that is the word and with dots three and dot six raised. Now that would make things a lot easier but to do that we would have to memorize all the cells that are below each of the letters A through J. Well let's try and see if we can't do that. This time we'll come up with the story like we did for letters A through J and we'll try to remember each column as a word or a short phrase. To start out let's say that you're a kid again and you're getting out of school so you walk outside and you see your dad and he's holding your baby brother and your dad's there to walk you home. You're so excited to see your baby brother so you run up to him and hug him and say a coochie coochie coo which will help us remember the A column. A, K, U, C, H and E, A or a coochie coochie coo. So you guys start walking home and you pass that same scary house next to your school that you always pass in your way home every day and you start to wonder if it's haunted. So you ask your dad believe ghosts be which helps us remember the B column, B, L, V, G, H and B, E or believe ghosts be. So your dad says no there's no ghosts in there. So you hurry past it and turn the corner and you suddenly get so excited because you see that there's a comic show at the convention center which helps us remember the C column, C, M, X, S, H and C, O, N or comic show at the convention center. So your dad's really excited too and wants to take you. So you get to the ticket booth and your dad hands them his discover card but unfortunately they run it and hand it back saying I'm sorry sir we're gonna have to deny this discover which helps us remember the D column, D, N, Y, T, H which if used by itself as the word this and this or deny this discover. Oh man now you can't go to the comic show so you and your dad are pretty upset but you try to cheer him up when you see a poster of your dad's favorite band come into concert. So you point at it and your dad looks at it and says Ozzy eyes when which helps us remember the E column E, O, Z, W, H and E, N or Ozzy eyes when. So your dad feels better but he's still a little upset so he decides you guys are just gonna take the bus the rest of the way home. So you sit down at the bus stop and since you have some time your dad looks at you and says finish your paper and edit it too which helps us remember the F column F, P and E, 2 or finish your paper and edit it too. So you say okay dad and then he gets up and goes to buy a magazine to read on the bus but he gets over to the newsstand and is confused because they only have one kind of magazine for sale. He just sees GQ for sale or were which helps us remember the G column GQ for or were or GQ for sale or were. So the bus comes and you're riding home but just before you get home you see your best friend walking on the sidewalk and you ask your dad hey dad can we hop right off outside his house which helps us remember the H column HR of out his or hop right off outside his house so your dad says sure and you get off the bus but your friend has to go inside so you and your dad holding your baby brother keep walking home but before you get home you pass the zoo and you love the owl of the zoo so you ask your dad is the owl in which helps us remember the I column I s the owl I in or is the owl in and your dad says yeah I see him and now you do too so you're excited well you guys finally make it home and you walk in the door and your mom says JT with will W was by which helps us remember the J column JT with will which is also W was which is also by or JT with will W was by and that's our story if you can remember this story then you should be able to quickly figure out what any of the 50 Braille cells in the A through J pattern mean let's try a few examples the first one has both dot three and dot six raised so if we go back to our first story about crossing a river we can tell that this cell looks like the detour sign so it's in the D column and if we remember our second story we can recall that the D column is deny this discover which is D in why this dis so in that column the third cell down with dots three and six raised is the letter why the next example has dot six raised so if we remember our first story this looks like the Harley rider in the H cell and in our second story the H was hop right off outside his house which is H are of out his so in this column the fourth cell down with dot six raised is the OU which if used by itself is the word out our last example also has dot six raised and if we go back to our first story this looks like the approach in the letter a and a in our second story was a kuchikuchiku or a k u c h e a so in the a column the fourth cell down with dot six raised is the ch so by remembering these two stories about crossing the river and walking home from school you'll be able to translate any of the 50 Braille cells that follow the pattern of dots of letters a through j now one final note about these cells we did leave out a few things to make them a little bit easier to memorize so let's look at those things now on the fourth row the CH when used by itself means the word child the SH when used by itself means shall and the WH when used by itself means which on the bottom row the EN when used by itself means enough also there are five double letter contractions on this row which fall in the columns you would expect BB CC DD FF and GG these cells when used in the middle of a word represent these double letter contractions we'll look more at rules of usage in a later video but for now you've seen how to memorize 50 of the 64 Braille cells in one lesson