Learning Emacs plus Emacspeak as a Beginner

[Parham Doustdar <parham90@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have tried to learn Emacs with Emacspeak, but I have been facing some 
issues. The problem is that in order to understand Emacs's 
documentation, I need to understand a few things about Emacspeak. And to 
be able to understand Emacspeak's documentation, I need to know some 
Emacs terminology. So, I'm stuck.

For example, I have set up Emacspeak by cloning the repository, running 
`sudo make config`, `sudo make`, and `sudo make install`. Then, I added 
the line loading `emacspeak-loader.el` to `~/.emacs.d/init.el`.

However, running `emacspeak` (or simply `emacs`) doesn't provide speech 
output.

So, two things here:

* Is there an easy way of installing Emacspeak on Arch, as the 
documentation seems to be out of date? I'm a beginner, so please be gentle.
* Is there a way of learning Emacs and Emacspeak together that you may 
recommend? I feel like I'm learning an already complicated program by 
not even having a rudimentary grasp of the screen reader (emacspeak).

Thanks a lot!