How to type foreign words with accents

 

I have trouble with words such as cafe and manana. Without the accent, they look wrong. 

Accent can mean intonation, or diacritical mark. The most common ones are :

The Acute Accent

más

 México

the circumflex, and 

the tilde.

The Tilde

 Ñ

mañana

Real Academia Española 

Simple System For Copying Correct Accents

My usual method is to find the word in google or  an online dictionary or Wikipedia and copy the whole word  or the accented letter. After you have copied it the first time, you can past it several times in the same article or post. Either continue using the control +v, or, if you have afterwards copied other letters, words, or pictures, search for the word with the accent in the article you are writing and copy it from your own article.

 tú

If you change to other words you are copying, then copy the letter with symbol again, this time from the first time you used it correctly in your own text.

As for remembering pronunciation, in French I think of the word for schoolchild, eleve, with the accents going up, acute, then down, grave.

élève

French words with accents

à la carte

château

If you copy a word in bold, and you are in blogger, just go to the character for inserting bold, the big capital letter B, and you will undo the bold of the word you have copied. If it comes out too large, look for the double TT sign which alters text size. if it comes out italic like this, click on the capital I sign which will be leaning forwards.. 

German accents

unlaut

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:German_alphabet

Ä	ä	Ä	IPA(key): [ʔɛː]	Audio: Duration: 2 seconds.0:02
Ö	ö	Ö	IPA(key): [ʔøː]	Audio: Duration: 2 seconds.0:02
Ü	ü	Ü	IPA(key): [ʔyː]	Audio: Duration: 2 seconds.0:02
ẞ	ß	Eszett

Norwegian Bokmål 

Spanish words with accents

letter ⟨ñ⟩ in Spanish

Español

Real Academia Española 

mañana

Spanish uses only the acute accent over any vowel: ⟨á é í ó ú⟩. 

Useful Instructions on using foreign letters / accents

https://acuteaccents.com/how-to-type-accents-in-microsoft-word-6-methods/

For details on Spanish pronunciation, see Spanish phonology and Help:IPA/Spanish.

Useful lists of words

French

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_French_words_and_expressions_in_English

German

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:German_alphabet

Search systems

https://www.etymonline.com/word/a%20la%20carte

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