Our principles
- Useful first. Every page should help someone type, read or learn a language – not just fill a page.
- Correct over complete. We would rather leave a feature out for a language than publish something wrong. That is why some tools say “not available yet” for a language.
- Standards, not inventions. Keyboards follow published, widely used layouts and standard Unicode.
- Clear about limits. We say when a feature depends on the browser or an outside service.
Keyboard layouts
Each keyboard follows a layout people already use: national or industry standards such as Inscript for Indian languages, and the standard national layouts for other languages (for example AZERTY for French and QWERTZ for German). Where a language has more than one common layout, we name the layout on the page so you know which one you are learning. Every character is standard Unicode, so text you copy works in other apps.
Alphabets, lessons and explanations
Alphabet charts, pronunciation guides, practice words and phrases are written for each language from published references – standard grammars, dictionaries and the Unicode character data – and checked against them before they go live. Typing lessons are built from the letters of each layout, from the home row to whole sentences.
Use of AI and machine translation
We may use AI tools and machine translation to draft text. A draft is never published as it is: it is edited and checked by a person, and text in a language other than English is checked by someone who reads that language. The translator and image to text tools are automatic by design, and their results are labelled as such.
Native-speaker review
We are building a group of native-speaker reviewers, starting with the most used languages. When a page has been reviewed, the reviewer is named on it. If you are a native speaker or teacher and would like to help, please get in touch.
Dates and freshness
Pages show a “Last updated” date, which changes when the content of the page changes.
Exam information
Typing exam rules, speeds and formats change from year to year. Pages about exams show the date the information was last checked, and we recheck them against the official notice before each exam season. The official notice always takes priority.
Corrections
Found a wrong character, a mistake in an alphabet or a confusing explanation? Please report it and tell us the language and the page. We check every report, fix confirmed errors as quickly as we can, and update the page's date when we do.