Howdy,
I’ve been away for a while and upon returning find I cannot use Ctrl-’ before vowels to add an accent mark over them. It does not seem to be working anywhere in Internet Explorer though, so this is probably not a Memrise problem.
Ctrl-’ works in all other programs with the Greek keyboard.
Can anyone help?
Thanks,
– Dunn
I’ve tried for days now. They downloaded Firefox. Same thing. No diacritics in Memrise or search bar.
Hello, @Dunnamin. I believe that the control-apostrophe trick to which you allude is specific to Microsoft Word and is not necessarily used within other programs.
What I’d recommend is to instal a keyboard layout as a software extension specific to the language you’re learning. Under Macintosh OS X, I regularly switch among English, Devanagari, Bengali, and Russian keyboard layouts, for example, where you type out a sound-alike character like k to get क or ক or к, or i to get ि, ি or и. That way, simply by switching my Mac’s keyboard layout, my keyboard automatically sends the desired Unicode character to any program, regardless of whether it’s Word, or InDesign, TextEdit, LibreOffice or accessing Memrise via a useful, web-standards browser like Firefox, Chrome or Safari. I don’t know whether it would work with Internet Explorer, since that software tends away from standards-compliance.
Language-specific keyboards are available for Windows computers, through Start [Windows icon] > Settings > Time & Language > Region & Language > Norwegian [or, obviously, whatever language you wish to instal] > Options > Add a keyboard [picking the particular keyboard layout you want]. Admittedly, the setup routine is incredibly baroque, but once you’ve installed one or more keyboards, these can be routinely accessed by pressing the so-called Windows key, followed by the space bar and then selecting an installed keyboard.
Because I routinely switch among several Latin-alphabet European languages, I was delighted when I learned about the “U.S. Extended” keyboard layout, which allows me to access the symbols used for Roman transliteration of Indic languages like Sanskrit, Pali, Hindi and Bengali — I’d type option-x-h, for instance, to get the character ḥ, or option-e-s to get the ś. Best of all, the same keyboard enables me to access ordinary English characters as well as French accents, like é and û by typing option-e-e or option-^-u; German letters, like ü and ß by typing option-u-u or option-s, Esperanto letters like ĥ, ĉ and ŭ by typing option-ˆ-h, option-ˆ-c or option-b-u, and Norwegian characters like æ, ø and å by typing option-apostrophe, option-o and option-k-a. Not having to switch among multiple keyboard layouts is a genuine time-saver for me. The U.S. Extended keyboard is available pre-installed on Macs up to and including OS X 10.9 (Mavericks); it has been rechristened as ABC Extended on subsequent system software updates. You can read about it here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/120938/wheres-the-us-international-keyboard-on-os-x-10-9-mavericks.
For Windows users dealing with multiple Latin-alphabet languages, this same ease of use is available as well, through the freely downloadable US Extended Keyboard Layout for Windows: http://download.cnet.com/US-Extended-Mac-OS-X-Keyboard-Layout-for-Windows/3000-2110_4-75940335.html
On Windows computers, you need only type the AltGr key instead of the Mac’s Option key, followed by whatever keystrokes the keyboard layout instructs you to type. For some languages, the characters chosen are intuitive; for the rest, you quickly memorize them through repeated use.
When answering Memrise questions that call for typing, I find that using the U.S. Extended keyboard on my Mac is much, much faster than picking a particular language-specific character from the pick list that Memrise helpfully supplies. Please try this option; I’m sure you’ll be delighted!
Kind regards,
Erik Bjørn Pedersen
Victoria, British Columbia
Hi, I’m learning Turkish, great program, but I cant get the word " Dukkande"right, { meaning in the shop } because I dont have the facility for the sign over the letter " a " can anyone help please ?
Hi @Har0ld - if the course insists on correct spelling and you are using a mobile phone if you hover on the “a”, then alternatives should appear.
I am surprised that on a typing test the right character isn’t shown for you.