Learning Spanish

Friday, June 25. 2004

Yesterday I started learning Spanish, using the book "Spanisch lernen in 30 Tagen" by Langenscheidt (does anybody remind this of "Brain surgery in 20 easy steps"?

. I already completed the first lection, and so far, it's not yet difficult. But today I encountered one big issue when trying to write Spanish text with a German keyboard layout: some characters such as Ñ, ñ, ¡ or ¿ can't be typed on a German keyboard layout. That's why I created a custom keyboard layout using the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (as you can see, I'm currently bound to Windows :-/), so that ñ can be typed using AltGr-n, Ñ can be typed using AltGr-Shift-n, ¡ can be typed using AltGr-Shift-1 (i.e. AltGr-!) and ¿ can be typed using AltGr-Shift-ß (i.e. AltGr-?). If you're also in desparate need of this keyboard layout, you can find the msi installer for Windows here. And below you can see a screenshot of the keyboard layout.

DE-ES keyboard layout

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