If you have ever tried to learn to touch type you have probably come across the sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" which uses all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet. Listening to a German podcast this morning I discovered there is a German word for this. Es ist ein Pangramm. Ein Satz, der alle Buchstaben des Alphabets enthält. I expect it's pangramme in English - confusing as the German plural is Pangramme. Both pan and gramm come from Greek words.
Although the podcast gave some German examples I wasn't bright enough to note them down. It was before my second coffee of the day! So Wikipedia to the rescue - I looked up Pangramm and there they were, including Pangramme mit äöü und ß
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Friday, 12 March 2010
Learn to type in German
Being able to type with all your fingers can speed up a lot of what you do on a computer. You can sign up for online tutorials at http://www.goodtyping.com/ and you can save your progress so you can go back later to tackle further lessons. Why do I mention this site? It also offers to teach you to type in German. You can go straight to the German typing tutorials at www.zehnfinger.com/
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