On April 14, last year, I said, "Maybe one day, there will be a blog post in French!" I thought I shouldn't delay that début any longer.
But before that, there was a problem. Though the English and French alphabets are the same, French has five types of accents above the letters. The pronunciation of a letter with and without an accent are different.
The five are:
L'accent aigu (é)
L'accent grave (è)
L'accent circonflexe or "chapeau" (â)
La cédille (ç)
Le tréma (ë)
I needed French a keyboard or some method by which I could get these accents.
Windows 10 has an option to have keyboards of different languages. I enabled the one for French.
But the problem with that was that the keys aren't the same. Like for example, where we have 'a', it's 'q'. So, if I type out femme on a French keyboard, it'll turn out to be: fe,,e.
I went to Youtube and searched how I could get French accents on Windows English keyboard. I found that there are so many methods one could do that. But the one I liked, the simplest one, was this.
This is the keyboard shortcut.
é = Cntr ' e
è = Cntr ` e
ê = Cntr Shift ^
ë = Cntr Shift ;
ç = Cntr ,
But it works only on MS Word; not on Blogger Draft or Notepad.
So, here I go. Needless to say, I typed this out on MS Word and then pasted it here. The translation is below that:
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Bonjour! Comment ça va?
Je m'appelle Pradeep, et j'habite á Bengaluru en Inde.
J'apprends le Français alors j'essaye – pour la premier fois – écrire un article sur mon blog en Français.
S'il y a des erreurs, pardon, s'il vous plaît.
Aujourd'hui, c'est le premier jour d'août.
C'est dimanche.
C'est un jour férié donc je ne dois pas aller au bureau.
My name is Pradeep, and I live in Bengaluru in India.