Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile
Quote Originally Posted by Johanna
[*]Another option is to get some fancy software that let's you type the sounds in latin letters and then transforms it into Russian. I.e you type "shest' " -- and it transliterates it to "шесть"[/list]
That's what I use. It doesn't require getting proficient in the two layouts and I'm tired of getting haunted by the Russian keyboard stickers.
???? But you are a native speaker of Russian, right? Could you not type before you left for Canada?

Stickers worked fine for me; I bought a keyboard, put the stickers on according to the standard Russian layout; then I added Russian to the languages in Windows Regional settings. Can switch between different input locales by pressing Shift + Tab. No big deal at all!

My sister visited a few months ago. She was very funny when she said: "Johanna, there are some RUSSIAN letters on your keyboard!!!! How did that they get there??? And all the other letters are in the WRONG place....(hadn't told her I was studying it..)

In fact, I had bought stickers, had them delivered and put them on myself.