Does this Devanagari Script Mac thing work in LJ?

[maeve66]

More on the World of Learning Hindi.

I am so liking doing this. I tried to learn Gaelic on my own, when I was, like, 22. Total failure. That Teach Yourself paperback, with the pretty interlace design... so much dreck, given away years ago. Ah, but nowadays, with the INTARWEBZ -- it's so much better. And I am more motivated. And I think I will somehow manage to use Hindi, much more than I ever would have, Gaelic.

Anyway, here, this is an AWESOME site that a non LJ friend told me about, which is attached somehow to SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Studies, in London). It teaches you Devanagari (which is pronounced something like DewanAHgree) script. I've been working at them in my greatly beloved Hindi language journal, writing each character several times, practicing pronunciation (um, between the retroflex and dental /ta/s, /tha/s, /d/s, and /dha/s, I cannot tell a lick of aural difference), and working on recognizing the shapes. So fun. And then there is a self-testing section that I am soooo enjoying.

So.

Here's my name in Hindi (no, it doesn't say maeve66):

ऎबरा

Well, boo. Apparently the Devanagari keyboard thingy that works in my Mac, and while I am IMing (because, you know, there's a lot of call for me writing "accha!" and "mere dil" while I am IMing various people) does not work in Livejournal. Boo. Very boo.

ETA: Further, here, a whole note to M., in Devanagari -- my first name is at the end.

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[shanrina.livejournal.com]

*is reading through some old entries and commenting since you're a new LJ friend* FWIW, I looked at the site and tried some of the tests, and wow. I'm not fluent (yet) but usually (at least to me) the differences between the dental and retroflex sound a lot more distinct. That could also be the accent, though--my lecturers were both from Rajasthan and I could hear that they had accents (or at least I could tell that sometimes they pronounced things different from the Devanagari).