iPad keyboard argh

I like doing a duolinguo review right before settling down to sleep (under the theory that it gets my brain churning spanishly while I sleep), which means I am on my iPad. Now, the duolinguo website has buttons you can click to type in the letters that are in Spanish but not English (áéíóúüñ¡¿), but the iPad app doesn't, because the default keyboard has these, via holding down the appropriate bit of the keyboard to bring up variations.

Now there is a feature of the on-screen keyboard that I very much take advantage of, which is that you can undock and split the keyboard, which divides the keyboard into two smaller chunks, such that you can -- for a not-at-all-arbitrary example -- type with your thumbs while holding the edges of the iPad in landscape mode.

This does mean that individual keys are smaller, and with my glasses off things are not perfectly clear, but I have decent accuracy, and keyboard layout is familiar enough that I know where things are.

What I don't know is where the special letters are.

And it makes NO FLIPPING SENSE WHATSOEVER.

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This is beyond frustrating.

Argh.

(luckily duolinguo treats accent errors as typo rather than full mistake, but it still drives me crazy.)