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Learning to type the Cyrillic alphabet | ||
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5864 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 1 of 9 15 October 2009 at 7:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Are there any websites to help you learn to type the Cyrillic alphabet? When I was learning to type in the Latin alphabet, there were several sites that started off having you type only a few letters and then gradually added more letters until you knew the entire layout of the keyboard.
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| XGargoyle Bilingual Triglot Groupie Spain Joined 5955 days ago 42 posts - 93 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, EnglishB2 Studies: GermanA2, Japanese, Russian | Message 2 of 9 15 October 2009 at 11:48am | IP Logged | ||
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For a long term solution, I suggest using keyboard stickers with the Cyrillic characters on them (http://www.russianlessons.net/misc/russiankeyboard.php)
Answering your original question, I guess this is what you're looking for: http://www.russianlessons.net/software/keyboard.php I hope you find them useful! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| taras Diglot Newbie Russian Federation t-english.ru Joined 5528 days ago 5 posts - 6 votes Speaks: Russian*, English | Message 3 of 9 15 October 2009 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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try this one.
http://vse10.ru/ 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6108 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 4 of 9 15 October 2009 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just start typing your Russian textbook's exercises or texts:
Keep your index fingers on А and О (F and J on QWERTY). Keep the Russian layout on the screen. I guess Windows lets you do this, otherwise just a jpg from internet. Don't watch the keyboard directly! Look instead for the characters you need on your screen. Get also immediate feedback by reading what you are writing and promptly correcting. One option is to use a software that makes you write your answers and tells you if you are wrong. Byki's free version for example. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6602 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 5 of 9 15 October 2009 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Try RussNet. Click on "Language Modules," then "Keyboard practice." You'll find exercises there.
No matter what tool(s) you use, be sure to practice daily. EDIT: Fixed the link. Edited by magister on 15 October 2009 at 8:23pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6908 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 9 15 October 2009 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Actually I think stickers is a short term solution. Start with words with letters that look and sound roughly the same, add words with letters that look the same but sound a bit different, and so on. You will have established enough muscle memory in no more than a couple of hours.
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5864 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 7 of 9 15 October 2009 at 8:10pm | IP Logged | ||
magister: I think you linked to the wrong site (it's the same link XGargoyle posted), but the russnet.org site is pretty close to what I was looking for, thanks! Also, I had already considered just practicing typing out lessons from my grammar books, but it just sounded too boring. And besides, learning it systematically I think is quicker :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| magister Pro Member United States Joined 6602 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 9 15 October 2009 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | ||
You're right. I've now fixed it. Anyway, good luck with the typing! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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