Russian keyboards

[Genevra Gerhart]

The argument against a phonetic keyboard is that you'll have grave
difficulties with a Russian keyboard in Russia.  

I've  learned it quite possible to keep both keyboards in my hands, or
wherever else they are stored.

From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of William Derbyshire
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 3:10 PM
To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Russian keyboards

 

Honest to goodness............ can't someone answer the question instead of
questioning why

a person should use this that or the next keyboard? There are perfectly good
reasons for 

someone wanting to use a phonetic keyboard without having to justify them to
other people.

Bill Derbyshire 

 

In a message dated 4/30/2013 4:04:02 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
razumnaya.anna at GMAIL.COM writes:

I use a phonetic keyboard, and the reason is that having learned to type in
English first, I was always reaching for the wrong keys when typing in
Russian. Getting one's motor memory to distinguish between two keyboard
patterns seems to me quite a task, and it has nothing to do with learning
the language. 

 

Best wishes,

 

AR

 

On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Sarah Hurst <sarahhurst at alaska.net> wrote:

I would like to reply to everyone on this. Why is a phonetic keyboard wanted
in a language lab? Shouldn't students learn to type using the normal Russian
keyboard layout?

 

Sarah Hurst

 

 

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