How To Add A Bulgarian Keyboard to A MacBook

Going to Bulgaria? Learning Bulgarian?

To add Bulgarian to your keyboard go to thetypingcat.com for a Mac OSX. The Bulgarian alphabet website has links to pages for other devices.

The handy link has diagrams which show you how to install the keyboard. Red arrows show you where on the screen to find each next move on your screen with diagrams.

 In Apple MacBook, nine simple steps: Select (click on):
1 Apple symbol top left of your screen;
2 select System preferences which is fourth down,
3 select keyboard on the second line of symbols, fourth along to the right;
4 input source fourth on the centred headings,
5 bottom left corner click on plus sign;
6 up pops languages and you select and click on English which is top of the list;
7 next column click on Colemak which is second down,
8 then at the bottom right of the page click on add,
9 then finally click on Colemak again.

To remember what to do: apple, system preferences, keyboard, input source, plus, English, Colemak, add, Colemak.

To summarise and memorise:
apple system preferences,
keyboard input source,
plus English,
Colemak add Colemak.
Memory aid symbols: Apple, key, English, coal. While eating an apple turn your keyboard from English into a coal black Bulgarian text/language. Make the change. Now you can remember how to do it and instruct somebody else.

When I first typed in System Preferences, instead of the traditional set of icons laid out like a keyboard with the word keyboard, I got a list of topics such as icloud, none of which seemed to embrace keyboard. I was momentarily dismayed. Then I noticed the search box. So I typed keyboard into the search box top right. I had only typed the first two or three letters of the word keyboard when up popped the reassuring and easy symbols including the one for keyboard.

I did not see Bulgarian added to my list of languages. Puzzled, I added Bulgarian twice. My machine had a think. Then it added something. I got two kinds of Bulgarian, alphabet and phonetic.

What is Colemak? A different keyboard layout.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colemak 

Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer. Teacher of English and other languages.