Originally Posted by Cyphyr
Now would be a good time to learn to touch type. I think someone else mentioned this recently in another post but I can't seem to find it. Anyway, it doesn't take that long, although it can be quite frustrating at the start. The great thing is once you've learned that, it is surprisingly easy to learn the Russian keyboard layout. It took me about a week, practising a bit every day. I gradually picked up speed after that. Now I can type Russian characters with relative ease. I can't look at the keyboard though, otherwise I get confused. Maybe I'll get keyboard stickers someday to solve that problem :)
One weird thing that happens, is that I sometimes get all muddled up and confused if I start typing Russian names using Latin characters in the middle of a message in English. That's usually a good time for me to take a break from the computer and go do something else :)