I tried to learn Braille recently by getting visual learning material (I still have usable vision, but preparing for the future). That’s the easy part, remembering the dots combinations.

My woes come from the tactile part of it, with real Braille paper material. I cannot, for the life of me, sense anything. Maybe that’s because I have thick calluses, or some kind of reduced nerves input, no idea. I tried following the dots with my fingernails and got better tactile feedback, but it’s very, very slow and not sure Braille was intended to be used that way, as it probably damages the delicate dots.
When time comes, something tells me I will be heavily relying on audio aids.

Good luck on your studies!

As a blind adult who uses Braille daily, I'm sorry but there's just something unquantifiably amusing about you slaving away with a stylus for hours at a stretch. It has the ring of penitent monks scribing on parchment. I know people do use slates, but in the modern world mechanical and electronic devices have largely replaced them for any sort of academic use.

I'm not VI but know people who use braille and use braille systems. I'm still in awe in speeds some people could read braille.

How are you learning friend. The key is daily practice. The more you practice the better you get.

I am brilliant at braille, learned it years ago and never had any problems. As such, I have no demons about it and am not constantly wracked with guilt and feelings that of failure.

Some of the above is not true.

Using a braille display is much easier for me personally than reading braille off paper. It's much crisper, and you don't have to stay on track of your line. If that's an option for you I recommend it.

Daily practice definitely helps. But yeah, the initial learning curve is intense. There is a lot to remember.

Learning computer braille for my math class, but it's trial by fire for me. I tried UEB, and while I got the literary part down, I couldn't be arsed with the math code. CBC is proving much more useful and compact so far. Also realtime translation through NVDA which is... important for keeping up in a lecture.

Haha so when I was learning Braille at like age 7, I think the most confusing bit was I kept writing "e" when I meant "I" and vice versa. Additionally, it was very hard learning all the contractions, keeping everything straight that word, work, will would all appear with a w but what was the right symbol?