My Free Spanish

Just a quick note to point out the addition of the downloads page, as well as a monthly Spanish calender in .pdf format.

  Spanish Calendar

The downloads can be accessed from the menu above, and the calendars will be linked to in the sidebar on the main page.

The Shockwave version of the Spanish Numbers program was written with Director MX 2004, and since Adobe has been having a few compatibility issues with their current release of the plugin, I’ve written a self-contained downloadable version that should work on most Windows machines.

There is no install required. Just download this program to your computer and run.

If you have any comments or suggestions, please feel free to contact me.

There are a number of ways to create Spanish accents and characters on your computer. I find the easiest is by using the ALT key codes. Another way is to use the Windows Character Map utility. I won’t get into these methods, as there are thousands of pages on the web covering this.

I wanted to share an application with you that was originally built to help me type Spanish characters a little faster because I can’t remember all the Alt codes and I find the Character Map too slow. I call it spanish-character.exe, but my wife objects to grouping the whole under terms like characters and accents, but to me that’s what they are. She says that some are accents and some are letters of the Spanish alphabet. If I have to use codes to access them, they are characters. So, here is the link to the program: Spanish Characters. (Windows only - no install required.)

To use it just select the character you want to use and it will be copied to the clipboard. Then go to the application you’re working in and paste or Ctrl+V to insert the character, Spanish accent, letter, or whatever you want to call it.

As I originally built this for myself and have only tested it on one OS, any feedback would be appreciated.