Is there a fast way to type letters with accents?

Question

When I'm doing the "Recall" part of the Flashcards section, if a word requires a letter with an accent, I never get a 10 because I have to click on the letter in the midst of typing. Is there a quicker way to type letters with accents? Thanks for your help!

Me too. - Leatha, Feb 8, 2011

Hopefully you're finding some help in this post as well, Leatha:-) Lots of great advice! - Charece, Feb 8, 2011

Answer 1

Go into Control panel and set Spanish as another language. When ES is displayed next to the date-time, you can type the accent just before typing the vowel. Depending on the OS and keyboard, it will be either [ key or ´ key.

Answer 2

It's just practice, you'll easily get used to.

Es sólo práctica, fácilmente te vas a acostumbrar.

Answer 3

Hi Rece1206 and welcome to the forum!

You might find this reference article useful: How to type Spanish letters

Also one of our members created a small program to make typing the special characters a very simple matter, and this program can be found here: Vikingo's Spanish.exe

Here is a bit more information regarding this program: See Moe's response

Thank you so much, lzanoni1:-) I appreciate that! Thanks for the welcome as well:-) I just realized I don't need to add a whole new answer to this post to respond lol:-) Thanks again! - Charece, Feb 8, 2011

I'm gonna have to vote here ;) - Vikingo, Feb 8, 2011

Answer 4

No problem Rece1206. I´m sure you can get one for less than $20 and with the Spanish keyboard, it´s easy to use ?¿ and !¡ as you don´t have to memorise or guess where they are like with an English keyboard.

Ohhh, well thank you for that tip, too! I think I may hold off on the keyboard then for now. I actually want to learn where the accents go lol:-) Maybe once I know it for myself, then the keyboard will just make it easier:-) Thank you! - Charece, Feb 8, 2011

Answer 5

Julianchivi's idea is the best. However, you can also buy a Spanish keyboard with ñ and the same rule applies for tildes, hitting ´ and then the relevent letter. They aren´t too expensive and you just plug them into your usb port.

By the way, if you want to make an umlaut, say for words like pirgüismo, canoeing, you can hit ´ with shift and then the letter u.

Or to get 'ü', you can use " and then hit the letter u - Goldie_Miel, Feb 8, 2011

Thanks Goldie Miel, good advice but doesn´t work with my keyboard. My " is only above the number 2 - Encalada, Feb 8, 2011

Thanks, Goldie_Miel! - Charece, Feb 8, 2011

Answer 6

Thank you, Philip. Wow, so many great tips. I will look into the Spanish keyboard.

Also, I just figured out that if you hit the 'tab' key, it automatically highlights the accented letters. You can use the arrow keys to go to the one you want, and then hit the space bar to make it show up in the box. I think with practice I can actually do that faster than using the mouse to click

Answer 7

Hi Feliz77--I see that you deleted your answer, but I still greatly appreciate that!!! It wasn't exactly what I was asking, but I still learned from the information you provided. I have a lot to learn about the Spanish language, so everything helps I apologize if the way I worded my question was confusing, but I appreciate you taking the time to answer so thoroughly, and again, I did learn from your answer Have a nice day.

Answer 8

deleted please ignore

Answer 9

Thank you both! And thanks so much, JulianChivi--I will try your suggestion.