I'm actually kind of surprised that it took Babbel this long to get to the "we will not longer speak to you in English" moment.
I will say that the approach of "listen to this radio scene with some vocab you don't know and answer questions", while a bit frustrating, is also really gratifying.
Like, okay, I don't *know* French but I do kinda understand it?
And, like, until you're suffering through full-speed dialogue with no breaks, you can't really *know* that.
For comparison, Mauril does this IMMEDIATELY.
You watch like five videos of "Bonjour, je m'appele Steve" and answer basic questions and it's like "hon hon hon crétine, on espere que vous êtes prête pour le FRANÇAIS!"
I am so annoyed I do not have my custom international keyboard layout on this computer and can't just type accents - I have to go copy paste them from the internet.
It's terrible.
(The default US International keyboard layout has weird dead key stuff that makes it hard to type normally so I inverted the function of right alt and now it's "American keyboard that can also type accents".)
@tess I do spanish accents in the US International QWERTY layout pressing the simple comma before the vowel (they key by the enter key)
You can do French accents by pressing the reverse comma (key left to number 1) before vowel.
Is that what you need?
@keko no, because I need those keys to work normally.
Using US-Int, in order to type é I type ' then e. But to type ' I need to use RALT+'. Because I write and code I use ' way more than I use é, so this is inconvenient and breaks my normal typing muscle memory.
I created an alternative version of US-Int that does the opposite:
To type é I hit RALT+' then e, but to type ' I just hit '. So non-English characters are still two keystrokes, but the usual 101-key characters are the same as always.
@tess yup that annoys me too, I like your approach, looks like it could be the fastest. I already have to do RALT for the “ñ” so it will still feel natural to me.
You can also press space after the simbol, to me it’s easier as you can do with any of the thumbs instead of having to press RALT.
Alternative is to have both layouts and switch by pressing windows+space when in the coding IDE, but somehow I always end in the wrong layout 😬
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