For convenience, here are the names of the commoner diacritics: á the acute accent. à the grave accent.
Â, â (a-circumflex) is a letter of the Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Romanian, and Vietnamese alphabets. This letter also appears in French, Friulian, Frisian, Portuguese, Turkish, Walloon, and Welsh languages as a variant of the letter "a".
For example, to get the á character, you'd press Ctrl+' (apostrophe), release those keys, and then quickly press the A key. Note that if you want Á instead of á, you'd have to enable caps lock before using the shortcut key, since using the Shift key would change the shortcut.
To produce for instance a macroned 'ā', you hold down the Compose key, and type an 'a' followed by a hyphen. The Compose key is also handy for accented characters, Euro signs and many other special characters.
Å = Hold down the Control and Shift keys and type a @, release the keys, hold down the Shift key and type an a. ä = Hold down the Control and Shift keys and type a : (colon), release the keys, and type an a.
The letter /ā/ is pronounced “ayy.” Once you start to get used to certain vocabulary words, and the way English pronunciation works, you can slowly phase these accent marks out.
Á, á (a-acute) is a letter of the Chinese (Pinyin), Blackfoot, Czech, Dutch, Faroese, Galician, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Lakota, Navajo, Occitan, Portuguese, Sámi, Slovak, Spanish, Vietnamese, Welsh, and Western Apache languages as a variant of the letter a.
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is a (pronounced /ˈeɪ/), plural aes. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives.
Letter A - Easy Learning French Pronunciation
The sound is made low down in the front of the mouth. It is a front low vowel.
ã — Also pronounced nasally, this is somewhat similar to “an.”
Ä = A-Umlaut
The sound that appears before the “r” is what you want. In addition, you can write “ä” as “ae” respectively “Ä” as “Ae” in case you do not have it on your keyboard.
A alone. At the end of an open syllable, a makes the long a sound (says its name). Some examples include able, apron, maple, and lady. Students must understand how to split words into syllables and know what open syllables are.
Vowels With Dots: Å, Ä, Ö
Å is pronounced like the English O in “or,” the Swedish Ä sounds almost like the word “air” in English, and Ö has a similar pronunciation to the [er] sound in the word “her.”
Use the keyboard shortcut – ALT + 30 (you need to hold the ALT key and then press 30 from the numeric keypad of your keyboard).
On a PC: For the casual German learner
Hold down the “alt” key on your keyboard and type one of these codes: ä : Alt + 0228.