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[lindsaybits]

i want to learn russian; i've had a fascination with it for the longest time, but have been too intimidated to do anything except learn the cyrillic alphabet. i used to know it pretty well in high school; i took class notes in it so that people couldn't look over my shoulder. lol.

i'm trying to prep my PC so that such a thing is slightly more possible. after all, if most of my computer is showing up in cyrillic, i'm more more apt to learn... sort of a quasi-immersion thing. i'm not currently in school, so this is all going to be self-taught. eek!

i'm having some problems in that the russian keyboard layout doesn't seem to match up phonetically with the english "equivalents". one of the links posted in the userinfo (http://www.translit.ru/) for this community helps with that, but i'm not sure what to do when i'm offline. any suggestions? or will i just have to learn the new keyboard layout? <:/

Hi.

[meggieoboe.livejournal.com]

I'm Megan. I just finished up taking first year russian in college (luckily, I just learned verbal aspect so I can follow whats going on in some posts pretty well). I can't continue taking Russian because of scheduling, but I'd like to keep improving my russian skills. So hopefully being part of this community might help me out :)
I don't have any way of typing in Russian. I don't know much about computers, is there a cheap way to put russian on my keyboard??? Or is there a good way to phonetically spell Russian words? Preevet??? that seems weird. I dunno....