Bonjour Madame,

I am back with more

English

Hi everyone, How are things back in BC? I am doing great in Quebec I saw the Cirque Du Soleil it was amazing, I was in Montreal on the day of the Cirque Du Soleil the town is quite historic some buildings are quite old but not as old as Quebec City's, I also got pranked by Just for laughs I can't believe they did that on me. I am going to Stay in Quebec until after the Winter Carnival. I am looking at a historical building from the 1800's as i'm writing this. I am staying at the l'hotel glace it's cold in here. I can also see them preparing for the carnival. As you know I'm going to stay for the winter carnival and i get to meet bonhomme. I will try to join in on the many events that are going to be held there. After a few hours I am going to a Party in Saint-Louis-Du-Ha!-Ha! they say it is a very small town I wonder why it has that name. I will see you all soon back in BC.

French

Salut tout le monde, comment ça va en la Colombie Britannique? Je suis très bon au le Québec, et j'ai vu le Cirque Du Soleil, et il a été incroyable. J'été en Montréal sur le jour le Cirque Du Soliel, et la ville est complètement historique, est les bâtiments sont complètement historique, mais ils ne sont pas vieux que la ville Québec. Aussi, Juste Pour Rire jouer une farce sur moi. Je ne peut pas croire ils faites ça sur moi. Je vais rester au le Québec avant après le Carnival d'Hiver est finit. Je façon de regarder à un bâtiments historique du les 1800's que j'écris ce. Je suis rester à l'hôtel glace. C'est très froid dans l'interiour. Je peux aussi voir les gens qui sont préparer pour la carnival. Tu sais je vais rester pour le Carnival' D'Hiver, et je peux recontrer bonhomme. Je vais essayer à participer en beaucoup des événements ici (dan, im not sure how to say the bit about "i will try to join in on the many events that are going to be held here" part, so i just put, "I will try to participate in many of the events here. If you want help on this bit, go on Jishka.). Après une peu des heures, je vais aller à une partie en Saint-Louis-Du-Ha!-Ha! Ils disent c'est une ville qui est très petit. Je me demande pourquoi le nom de la ville est ça. Je vais voir tu le monde bientôt en la Colombie Britannique.

PS my friend helped me

I'm printing it out so my eyes won't have to scan up/down/up/down. That way I can read it better. Please learn to make the proper accent marks because I can't always guess what the word is with these bizarre marks!

If you tell me MAC or PC (it must be PC), Windows or not, I can send you the chart of how to make accent marks on the computer. I really get a migraine trying to read words like: événements or ça.

Sra (aka Mme)

odd sorry about that I am using a PC

Le voici! The easiest thing will be for me to type what I end up with. Hopefully you can determine what to keep, what to delete, what to change. If not, ask those questions. If you are really in Montréal, be sure to take a fiacre up to Mont Royal!

Salut, tout le monde, comment vont les choses en la Colombie Britannique? Je vais très bien en Québec (the province, not the city; if it's the city "à Québec.") J'ai vu le Cirque Du Soleil, et il a été (OR c'était) incroyable. J'étais à Montréal le jour (OR la journée, if it was only one day) du Cirque Du Soleil, et la ville est complètement historique. Q;uelques bâtiments sont complètement (OR for variety's sake absolument) historiques, mais ils ne sont pas aussi vieux que la ville de Québec.

Aussi (OR De plus = moreover), Just Pour Rire m'ont (m'a = is it one entity?) fait un tour. Je ne peux (OR puis) pas croire qu'ils m'ont fait cela. Je vais rester à Québec (city; but if it's the province = en Québec) jusqu'à après avoir fini le Carnaval d'Hiver. (En ce moment) Je regarde un bâtiment historique des années 1800 pendant que j'écris ceci (OR cette lettre.)

(BTW I don't see any paragraphs in yours, but it's better with.) Je reste dans (OR à) l'Hôtel Glace, où il fait très froid (I took some "license" there or you can keep "Il fait très froid ici dans l'intérieur.") Je peux (OR puis) voir aussi les gens qui préparent tout pour le carnaval. Comme tu sais, je vais rester pour le Carnaval d'Hiver, et je peux rencontrer Bonhomme. Je vais essayer de participer en beaucoup d'événements qu'ils vont avoir (OR tenir) ici. Après quelques heures, je vais aller à une partie (OR une soirée) à Saint-Louis-Du-Ha! Ha!. (Did you know the derivation of that name?:
The name is not an eruption of laughter, but a derivation of a French term for a dead end, referring to a point on Lac Temiscouata, where canoists had to portage across land. It might be likened to "Podunk!")

Ils disent que c'est une ville qui est très (OR variation = tellement) petite. Je me demande pourquoi la ville s'appelle comme ça. (a little license there also) Je vais vous voir tous en la Colombie Britannique.

Sra (aka Mme)

P.S. I'm so glad I have a MAC, because accent marks are a snap! You didn't mention whether you had Windows or not.

How To Type Accented Characters on a PC

US-International Keyboard uses the ', `, ~, ^, " as dead keys (highlighted in blue below), and uses Right-ALT plus !, ?, and a number of other keys to produce characters not normally available. The accents are intuitive. Tap the accent dead key, then tap the vowel for which you want the accent. The ' dead key also works for the cedilla. ' + e = é
` + e = è
~ + n = ñ ^ + e = ê
" + e = ë
' + c = ç

US-International Keyboard method:
1. Go to Control Panel / Keyboard / Language
2. Choose English-United States-International
(through PROPERTIES, not "Add") With that option, the keyboard operation is slightly modified but the keyboard does not change for every language (it is useful for German, Spanish, French and Portuguese, among other European languages, including English, of course) and it does not interfere with the regular use of the actual, physical keyboard that you see. when you type the ~ character (left-hand corner of keyboard), nothing shows until you type another key. So, if you type ~ and then the letter n, you get a nice n+tilde output. If you type ~ and then any vowel, you get that vowel with the tilde on top of it (which is used in Portuguese to represent nasal vowels). If you type ~ and then the space bar, you get the ~ character(for example to produce a sting like ~eyepes). If you type ~ and then any other consonant, you get ~ followed by that consonant: ~p, for example. when you type the ' character (center right-hand key of keyboard), nothing appears until you type another key. Again, if you type any vowel immediately after typing ' , you get that vowel with an acute accent (the one used in Spanish and in some French words). If you type the space bar or any other key, you get the usual simple quotation mark followed by the consonant or key that was hit afterwards. For example: 'f , or 'g , and so on. same rules apply for the ` , ^ and " characters: they don't show until you type another key--they will be combined with vowels and followed by consonants.

The Windows Character Map, usually found in the Windows 95 (Office 97) Accessories Program Group, provides a combination of keystrokes needed for foreign language applications. Instructions: Go to START, click on FIND and type CHARMAP. Find the character map in Windows, select the font "Times Roman," and use the numeric key pad on the right side of the keyboard to create special characters. The system will occasionally fail if a particular combination of keystrokes has been reserved by another application.
Depress the ALT key and hold it down while typing in the three-digit number. To type the numbers, use the numeric keypad, not the number keys on the top row. 128 Ç
129 ü
130 é
131 â
132 ä
133 à
135 ç
136 ê
137 ë
138 è
139 ï
140 î
141 ì
142 Ä
143 Ã…
144 É
145 æ
146 Æ
147 ô
148 ö
149 ò
150 û
151 ù
152 ÿ
153 Ö
154 Ü
160 á
161 í
162 ó
163 ú
164 ñ
165 Ñ
168 ¿
0156 - Å“
0140 - Å’

PC Variations: Hitting the spacebar or a non-accented letter after a dead key produces the key's normal value, i.e. ', `, ~, ^, or ". Other special characters can be entered by using the Right-Alt key in combination with other keys (esp. useful for ¿, ¡ «, » ß). For Spanish, it might be easier to use the Right-Alt key for accents too: Alt-? = ¿ Alt-! = ¡ Alt-s = ß Alt-n = ñ Alt-N = Ñ Alt-, = ç
Alt-a = á Alt-e = é Alt-i = í Alt-o = ó Alt-u = ú

This two hundred number combination in the Character Map, set to "Times New Roman," is useful within an internet document (e.g., an on-line student response journal) in the latest versions of browers.

ALT + 0224 yields á ALT + 0225 yields à ALT + 0233 yields è ALT + 0232 yields é ALT + 0242 yields ò ALT + 0243 yields ó ALT + 0200 yields É ALT + 0204 yields � ALT + 0241 yields ñ

Other Windows Options

Here are several options for MS Word. First, in MS Word, go to the Help Menu and search "Diacritic Marks." Second, in MS Word, choose INSERT, SYMBOL, and then select the accented character needed. Third, in newer versions of MS Word
1. Press CTRL and the key that most closely resembles the accent needed.
2. Release the two keys pressed in Step 1.
3. Press the character, and voila--the accented character will appear.
à, è, ì, ò, ù - À, È, Ì, Ò, Ù CTRL+` (ACCENT GRAVE), the letter
á, é, í, ó, ú, Ã…¨ - Ã�, É, Ã�, Ó, Ú, Ã…¨ CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), the letter
â, ê, î, ô, û Â, Ê, Î, Ô, Û CTRL+^ (CARET), the letter
ã, ñ, õ Ã, Ñ, Õ CTRL+~ (TILDE), the letter
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü, ÿ Ä, Ë, �, Ö, Ü, Ù CTRL+: (COLON), the letter
Ã¥, Ã… CTRL+@, a or A
æ, Æ CTRL+&, a or A
�, Î CTRL+&, o or O
ç, Ç CTRL+, (COMMA), c or C
Ã…¨, Ã…¨ CTRL+' (APOSTROPHE), d or D
ø, Ø CTRL+/, o or O
¿ ALT+CTRL+?
¡ ALT+CTRL+!
ß CTRL+&, s

Other bits of Information


In Microsoft Office 98 for the MAC, the Value Pack (on the CD-Rom) contains the Proofing Tools--spellcheckers and thesarus for different languages. The tools are language specific and should be set by the user. ALKI provides the foreign language Proofing Tools for Microsoft Office 98.
Microsoft fonts for the Asian languages exist on the Office 97CD--in the ValuePack folder, open the Far East folder and install Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Microsoft has released a free spellchecker, in German for Word 6.0 or MS-Office 97. This is an add-on feature in which unrecognized words are underlined in Word97 but no suggested alternatives are offered and there is no grammar checker. The link to download it is available at this web page: www.german-usa.com/info/index.html.
WordPerfect since at least version 4.2 has allowed remapping of the keyboard (for DOS and Windows versions at least). The most current versions allow you to have different keyboard maps and switch at random (Edit> Preferences> Keyboard> Create). Unfortunately the keyboards you map only work inside the WordPerfect application.
Windows95 also has a selection of keyboard layouts that work for all windows applications. To try them, look under "Keyboard" in the ("Start" > "Settings">) "Control panel." For example go to "Keyboard," choose the "Language" tab, hit the "Properties" button and then choose the "UnitedStates-International" from the drop-down menu of keyboard layout choices. You can assign layouts of your choice to languages of your choice. If you have a list of two or more language/layouts listed on the "Language" tab page, the current choice will show on the right side of the task bar and you can click on it to switch between your other selections. To see how the current keyboard is mapped, open the (Start> Programs> Accessories>) "Character Map," choose the font you are working with, and click on the character you wish to type. The keystroke combination for the current layout will show up on the bottom line of the "Character Map" window.
WordPerfect keyboard maps override the Windows layouts wherever there is a conflict. But you can use the two in combination to create many very useful keyboard shortcuts and features.


Sra (aka Mme)

The brochure that came with your software should also tell you what do to.

I'm sorry Madame but the accents look all funny again o.0

I need to know your operating system?

Sra

I use a windows xp PC

Hey, i just fixed up the accents making them look right. I hope they turn out okay =D

-Slappy-

Salut, tout le monde, comment vont les choses en la Colombie Britannique?
Je vais très bien en Québec
J'ai vu le Cirque Du Soleil, et c'était incroyable.
J'étais à Montréal la journée du Cirque Du Soleil, et la ville est complètement historique.
Quelques bâtiments sont complètement (OR for variety's sake absolument) historiques, mais ils ne sont pas aussi vieux que la ville de Québec.

Aussi (OR De plus = moreover), Just Pour Rire m'a (m'a = is it one entity?) fait un tour. Je ne peux (OR puis) pas croire qu'ils m'ont fait cela.
Je vais rester à Québec (city; but if it's the province = en Québec) jusqu'à après avoir fini le Carnaval d'Hiver. (En ce moment) Je regarde un bâtiment historique des années 1800 pendant que j'écris cette lettre

(BTW I don't see any paragraphs in yours, but it's better with.) Je reste dans (OR à ) l'Hôtel Glace, où il fait très froid (I took some "license" there or you can keep "Il fait très froid ici dans l'intérieur.")
Je peux (OR puis) voir aussi les gens qui préparent tout pour le carnaval.
Comme tu sais, je vais rester pour le Carnaval d'Hiver, et je peux rencontrer Bonhomme. Je vais essayer de participer en beaucoup d'événements qu'ils vont avoir (OR tenir) ici.
après quelques heures, je vais aller à une partie (OR une soirée) à Saint-Louis-Du-Ha! Ha!. (Did you know the derivation of that name?:The name is not an eruption of laughter, but a derivation of a French term for a dead end, referring to a point on Lac Temiscouata, where canoists had to portage across land. It might be likened to "Podunk!")

Ils disent que c'est une ville qui est très (OR variation = tellement) petite. Je me demande pourquoi la ville s'appelle comme ça. (a little license there also) Je vais vous voir tous en la Colombie Britannique.

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