Typing in Czech

The Czech alphabet is easy to learn, what’s harder is getting all the weird little characters to appear on a computer screen. You’ve probably tried Insert>symbol on MS Word, but this is slow and can be a long process, scrolling down to the write character. Fortunately, if you’re using Windows, there’s a good solution. It takes a few minutes to set up, but once you have it’s quick and easy. Here’s how to set up your keyboard to type in Czech. Don’t worry, it’ll still let you use your normal English keyboard, this will just add an option to switch to Czech whenever you need, whether typing a letter in Word or writing an e-mail in Safari or Mozilla Firefox- it works everywhere!

Got to ‘Control Panel’ and find ‘Change keyboards or other input methods’.

Click on ‘Change keyboards’ on the little pop up that appears

Another box will appear with a list of keyboards already installed. Click on 'add'.

Another box will appear. Choose the language, Czech.

Don't forget to hit 'apply'.

You're done! Now, to use the new keyboard, go to the toolbar and click on "EN", then change that to "CS".

The keyboard takes a while to get used to. Basically the keys letters are the same, but the numbers now correspond to the extra letters. To add the accents, press '+' for the caron and '=' for the acute accent. Here's a map to help you: