I get too confused trying to switch back and forth between the German and the American English keyboard layout. When you do the writing exercises for Rosetta Stone and Rosetta Stone TOTALe, they keep you immersed and make you use the German keyboard layout — with the swapped Z and Y and the crazy ä, Ä, ö, Ö, ü, Ü, and ß.
So, unless you key your eye on the exemplar keyboard they show you — or memorize the pattern to speed up your writing — then you need to do something else. What I did, as you can see above, is stick a package of German keyboard stickers onto my English layout keyboard — the way I just did tonight — as you can see above.
Cool, right? They even fit the Lenovo ThinkPad X61′s smaller-sized keyboard.
GERMAN KEYBOARD STICKERS WITH WHITE LETTERING ON TRANSPARENT BACKGROUND
