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If you can't find the place to fiddle with the settings, here's the most direct way imaginable:

1. Start -> Run (or Windows key + R)
2. Copy this into the box and press enter:
...

I use Alt-Shift.

Maybe you should get some people to record themselves saying words you know to get the hang of pronounciation, if you don't have personal access to a native speaker in real life. :)

That's the problem with transliterations: it depends on the accent you're transliterating it into. All my Sveedish friends write things like "tavarishj", which sounds, obviously, completely wrong in...

Sorry, I, uh, don't get it :). "Where is Canada, I ask?"?

Isn't that more like "I'm a good person", Russkies (although of the wrong sex in this case)?