A Multilingual English Literacy Program
For Scholars Ages 5 to 105
TRWRR
Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827
Karl Böhm- Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
The Pastoral Symphony, aka No. 6
In F Major, Opus 68
First movement
Second movement
Third movement
Fourth movement
Fifth movement
Designed for Each Student to Progress According to His or Her Efforts and God-given Ability!
Adobe Conversions
Edge Browser
These instructions pertain to the 8 sets of translatable PDFs, namely the four TRWRR Interactive Stories in English and the four TRWRR Interactive Stories in both English and Spanish.
Herewith are Four Steps to open any of the above PDFs on Word:
Step One: After any of these PDFs has been accessed, look for it in your downloads folder, then open it on the Edge browser. The picture below depicts the action to take. (Click on the picture to have it pop up and be easy to read.)
Step Two: Click on "Microsoft Edge."
Step Three: Click on the three dots of the top of the document then click "Read aloud." This step is pictured below:
Step Four: After clicking "Read aloud," The voice tools will appear centered on top of the document, as shown below:
Questions and Answers
How do I pick a TTS voice?
If you click on the icon on the right of the figure above, a long list of voices will appear.
Should I pick an English or a Spanish voice?
You could pick either one initially, one to read English then later switch to one to read Spanish, or vice versa.
Or you could use a Spanish voice to read both languages. Most Spanish voices are able to read English with merely an accent, whereas English voices are unable to read Spanish except in an unintelligible, stilted fashion.
How do I enact "Read aloud?"
When you click on the middle icon in the figure above,"Read aloud" will begin right off.
How do I pause "Read aloud?"
You do so by clicking on the middle icon again, which will have changed into two parallel lines.
How can I skip from one story to another?
You can move forwards or backwards by merely using the wheel of your mouse.
Export to Word
Both the four TRWRR Interactive Stories in English and the four TRWRR Interactive Stories in both English and Spanish can be exported to Word. However, because the latter has more usefulness or, to put it in other words, is much easier to work with, we will look only at the latter type. That having been said, only one section, i.e. a page, can be translated at a time.
For our example we'll translate Spanish into Danish, which is one of over 60 languages to choose from.
Steps to take to Export an Adobe PDF to a MS Word Document:
Step One: After the document initially opens as a PDF, click on the Hamburger menu, shown in gray on the top left of the picture below. (Click on picture to enlarge it.)
Step Two: Click on Export a PDF.
Step Three: Click on "Word Document."
Steps to take to translate Spanish selections into Danish:
Step One: Click on View in the ribbon, and if necessary change to One Page, as shown pictured below.
Step Two: Click on Review, then Translate, as pictured below.
Step Three: Scroll down to the first page of Spanish stories, then select them with your mouse.
Step Four: In this example we have already selected Danish. However, had we not, then we would click on the down-pointing caret next to whichever language is shown to find Danish in the pop-up menu.
Step Five: Finally, we click on Insert, as shown pictured to the right below .
Now, the Danish will have replaced Spanish as shown below.
Read Aloud
The Read Aloud icon is pictured in the ribbon below. Once it is clicked, Stories 87 and 88 in both languages may be read seamlessly by the two TTS voices without the student needing to do anything.
