Unuhi

I was told the Chinese kids just memorize the words for the first 6 years in school to build their vocabulary. Sighted kids that is. But for nonsighred learners there's an advantage in Chinese: phonetic spelling in braille. Only about 50 sounds, so as long as you can hear well and speak well, it sounds like a lot easier system.

Oh, I'd love to hear about Chinese in that context. :) My guess is for sighted learners there will always be sight-words in Chinese. You just need to learn to figure how to decipher the parts of the letter, which part is the root and so on. Whereas for not-sight readers of Chinese it's a lot easier. Learn the sounds ;) Chinese is spelled phonetically in braille so there's a clear advantage...

I imagine doing some makeup to highlight the albino colors would be even more cool than tuning it down to pass as pigment-typical.

I won't certainly see anything suspicious. People behave suspiciously all the time, from my point of view. Do you have any tips for those not relying on sight?

I love the show - and would love to catch an episode about that. :)

By the way - How It's Made is one of the nicest tv shows in US mainstream channels. It works beautifully as an audio only show - something that's too rare with TV. So i can enjoy the show because everything important is described in voice and audio in a way that just works but doesn't scream "audiodescribed tv show".