It seems like the correspondence should be something other a-z. Something like making the vowels or more common letters more distinctive. E.g., making the vowels the lightest weight, that is make aeiou use the single dot letters dotsies uses for abcde.
Dotsies (2012)
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Re: Dotsies (2012)
#12Title shoud be `Dotsies - dot based read optimized font (2012)`.
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#14Korean is structured this way
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#15Reminds me of Marain, which I actually wish was in use:
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#16I cannot tell if this is a practical joke or what. At first, I tried to learn it in earnest but then I fell totally apart and virtually threw my hands up. Either I have some sort of learning disability or this is there to simply waste my time. Is this a real thing?
Have you tried using a spaced repetition system? Sometimes it takes the brain a couple exposures until you "get" it. Otherwise you might think of ways to make the learning more engaging or stimulating: if you can present the same information in a different way, that might work better :)
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#17I learned it back then. Used it for a while as a privacy feature for my phone.
how was it? easy to read after a hwile? I whished the downloadable font would be the "densest" setting, not just abc encoding
I can read 10-20 words per minute. The main problem is that you cannot "scan" for a word.
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#18Was about to pass this off until I starting reading the sample near the bottom of the page that gradually teaches you. It actually amazed me that I could sort of read it halfway through. I can't get to the end though, but at least I have an idea of the difficulty level to read it naturally.
Couldn't get past "if you can read this, keep going."
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#19Was about to pass this off until I starting reading the sample near the bottom of the page that gradually teaches you. It actually amazed me that I could sort of read it halfway through. I can't get to the end though, but at least I have an idea of the difficulty level to read it naturally.
Woah that is true, it's amazing. I made the same back when I was learning Hiragana as a native Spanish (pronunciation is the same in both Spanish and Japanese!) so I could easily read them, but it didn't work nearly as well.
The way I ended up doing is by learning whole words and then a lot of practice. It is similar to what the author is doing here, just they do it with the most frequent words first such as "the", "it", "a". Really clever indeed. Now if this was applied to Korean it'd be awesome (:
Re: Dotsies (2012)
#20Korean is structured this way
I don't see any similarity.