Americans commonly use the QWERTY keyboard, thus named for the first six letter keys in the top left of the keyboard, but it's not the only kind of keyboard.
Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...
My new gig provides laptops through some leasing company. I'm in Spain, and they have some laptops with .es keyboards, but they offer a greater selection with "English" and "German" keyboards. I'm ...