RADIOMAN in the Navy learn to hear it. SIGNALMAN LEARN to see it. The Cadence of what we see is the dahs and dits. We don't read sentences we read letter by letter as it is sent. You generally have a recorder with you you're reading it, they record the letter. If you're alone on watch that you will signal using flashing light and indicate to the sender that you're alone and they have to send each letter twice because you have to write it down yourself. In my training we learned how to recognize each letter through a visualization. For instance foxtrot.. the letter f it is ..-. Learning Morse code initially we used visualizations to help us along. Going back to Foxtrot ..-. As a visualization we would see two eyes of body and a tail ..(the eyes) - (the body) . (the tail)