HHR Primer methodology
His Hands Reader English primers are from the Wycliffe Associates Level A (1200 word - 1700 meanings) Easy English Bible. Primer text is indexed to the HHR lexicon database at the "meaning" level. What does this mean? It means as you read in HHR the exact meaning picture and hand sign is displayed for the current word in the sentence being read. Also, the exact word meaning in the subtitle language is displayed.
Learn more about Wycliffe Associates Easy English here.
All other primers other than English in His Hands Reader are derived from the English primers using the Inter linear text report (see examples of this in the Primer Statistics section below). Native speaking HHR volunteers use these Inter Linear Text reports for their language to help them create a grammatically correct primer using the HHR lexicon word meanings in their native tongue. The Inter Linear report helps the volunteer to choose words that appear in the lexicon.
Why use the Bible as reading primers?
Coming soon!
Why can HHR be helpful for the Deaf and Dyslexic?
Coming soon!
Primer Text
Primer_Statistics
Genesis 1 - 9 English
Word Frequency (Gen 1-9 English)
Glossary (Gen 1-9 English-XXX) Use this if you want to translate only the Genesis 1-9 part of the HHR lexicon
Glossary (Gen 1-9 Eng-Rus) 95 percent complete
Inter linear Text (Gen 1-9 Eng-Rus)
Glossary (Gen 1-9 Eng-Heb) 50 percent complete
Inter linear Text (Gen 1-9 Eng-Heb)
Glossary (Gen 1-9 Eng- Chn) 99 percent complete
Inter linear Text (Gen 1-9 Eng- Chn)
Why try HHR if you have trouble reading?
They say that "Good readers use the super fast part of the brain that correlates associated photos and meaning pictures". When you see a photo of an elephant how long does it take you to figure out that it is an elephant? Do you mistake it for a Zebra? You are using that part of the brain. As we learn to read we use different parts of our brain. Once we become comfortable at reading we use a different part of the brain than when we were first learning to read. If you can recognize an elephant on a photo very fast then you may have similar enjoyment with recognizing words as fast once you tuck those words as photos along with meanings into your memory.
In the old days they say that some movie theater owners would put a 1/24 of a second picture of something good to eat from the concession stand in the movie just before intermission to create an appetite in their customers. The micro second flash of a picture of popcorn and cold drink happens so quickly that you don't even know that you saw it but you subconsciously see and correlate the picture with wanting to eat and drink. It is such a powerful technique that there is apparently a law against doing that anymore. I understand that is the part of the brain that is being used in fast reading.
So maybe you are asking the question, "How can I use that part of my brain so I can read words faster?" The free World literacy computer program, His Hands Reader, attempts to let you "photograph" words into your mind and associate and store away each word along with a meaning picture for that fast recall. HHR attempts to show you each word large, like on a photograph, along with a picture meaning of the word. This repeated process will eventually burn those word/meaning photo combination into your memory for fast, comfortable recall. All brains are made just a little bit different so you will need to try it to see how it works for you.
So maybe you are asking the question, "How can I use that part of my brain so I can read words faster?" The free World literacy computer program, His Hands Reader, attempts to let you "photograph" words into your mind and associate and store away each word along with a meaning picture for that fast recall. HHR attempts to show you each word large, like on a photograph, along with a picture meaning of the word. This repeated process will eventually burn those word/meaning photo combination into your memory for fast, comfortable recall. All brains are made just a little bit different so you will need to try it to see how it works for you.
HHR English primers use 1200 words and some portion of the 3500 different ways these words are spelled. We currently have 250 meaning pictures for the 1700 total meanings in the lexicon. We don't have pictures for every word meaning yet but volunteers are working on it.
How about reading in your language? His Hands Reader is designed to enable a volunteer from your language to easily enter your words and write the same primers in your language. HHR also has support to help deaf to associate meanings by seeing hand signs in their sign language for each word read. See instructions for volunteers at this location. www.GodandDeaf.org/hhr
Think of the His Hands Reader as a training tool attempt to enhance your reading skill -- not to replace all the hard work to learn to read phonetically. You still need that so you will have the ability to learn to read new words. The best training for reading is to read, read, read. Hopefully His Hands Reader will make it more comfortable and faster to read the more common words.
Bob Achgill
A Description of HHR
The free His Hands Reader Windows program includes a turn page reader format that builds from a common shared lexicon across all languages and can therefore show a word meaning picture and say the word as the student reads through each word in reader sentences. The His Hands Reader can be downloaded from... www.GodandDeaf.org/hhr
This reading technique enables the student to learn to read via sight word recognition. The His Hands Reader program database of all reading materials is automatically distributed via the Internet to the user's computer. Once a volunteer adds a new language, reader, meaning picture, voice word... these data are automatically distributed to the rest of the world of "online" connected users to enjoy the next time they open the program.
The nature of the His Hands Reader program being cost free and reading libraries being automatically distributed via Internet serves the paradigm of every computer cafe in the developing world to be a literacy portal. Though His Hands Reader makes no money... cafe web masters will have self vested interest to add the His Hands Reader to their cafe computers. Why? Their patrons can pay a few pennies to buy an hour of time on the cafe computer to practice their reading skills in their language of choice. For example -- Kabul Afghanistan is a land of 40+ languages and literacy below 20 percent in only the government language. Internet cafes exist every couple of kilometers. His Hands Reader can easily find a useful home among those 1000's of cafe computers. The only thing that is lacking now is the volunteers to add the lexicon data for their native tongue and some beginning primer text. His Hands Reader makes it easy for a volunteer to add the lexicon data straight into the program. Primers can be added using free off-the-shelf HTML editors following the templates supplied with His Hands Reader. After 40 hours of volunteer labor then Readers all around the world speaking that language will benefit as they learn to read their language.
Additionally, the His Hands Reader Windows program, helps the Reader to learn to read a second business language by seeing her own language in subtitle to the reader text. And if she wants to learn to read English as a second language the program has integrated the whole Wycliffe Associates Easy English Bible as reading material according to the base lexicon. Often times literacy for a second language is overlooked in developing nations... though it is literacy in the second language that is most needed to carrying on business transactions associated with livelihood. The His Hands Reader provides a multi-media platform for learning to read any combination of primary to secondary language.
Now the His Hands Reader is also able to show hand signs for each word read for any hand sign language in combination with any of the 7000+ voiced languages of the world. That can help deaf to read the Words of the Book and their hearing parents and siblings to learn how to communicate with their deaf loved one.
This reading technique enables the student to learn to read via sight word recognition. The His Hands Reader program database of all reading materials is automatically distributed via the Internet to the user's computer. Once a volunteer adds a new language, reader, meaning picture, voice word... these data are automatically distributed to the rest of the world of "online" connected users to enjoy the next time they open the program.
The nature of the His Hands Reader program being cost free and reading libraries being automatically distributed via Internet serves the paradigm of every computer cafe in the developing world to be a literacy portal. Though His Hands Reader makes no money... cafe web masters will have self vested interest to add the His Hands Reader to their cafe computers. Why? Their patrons can pay a few pennies to buy an hour of time on the cafe computer to practice their reading skills in their language of choice. For example -- Kabul Afghanistan is a land of 40+ languages and literacy below 20 percent in only the government language. Internet cafes exist every couple of kilometers. His Hands Reader can easily find a useful home among those 1000's of cafe computers. The only thing that is lacking now is the volunteers to add the lexicon data for their native tongue and some beginning primer text. His Hands Reader makes it easy for a volunteer to add the lexicon data straight into the program. Primers can be added using free off-the-shelf HTML editors following the templates supplied with His Hands Reader. After 40 hours of volunteer labor then Readers all around the world speaking that language will benefit as they learn to read their language.
Additionally, the His Hands Reader Windows program, helps the Reader to learn to read a second business language by seeing her own language in subtitle to the reader text. And if she wants to learn to read English as a second language the program has integrated the whole Wycliffe Associates Easy English Bible as reading material according to the base lexicon. Often times literacy for a second language is overlooked in developing nations... though it is literacy in the second language that is most needed to carrying on business transactions associated with livelihood. The His Hands Reader provides a multi-media platform for learning to read any combination of primary to secondary language.
Now the His Hands Reader is also able to show hand signs for each word read for any hand sign language in combination with any of the 7000+ voiced languages of the world. That can help deaf to read the Words of the Book and their hearing parents and siblings to learn how to communicate with their deaf loved one.