I touch-type in Russian and also (more or less) in Hebrew, and I have the
same problem, particularly Russian-English and vice versa, although going
back to English is a lot easier. When I'm typing both in the same
document (e.g. a vocabulary list) I can really get my fingers tangled up.
The Hebrew is another matter, especially since when I'm typing in an
American program I have to do it backwards, which is letter by letter and
not word by word.
The new issue of American Psychologist has an article on reading
Serbo-Croatian in Cyrillic and Roman. I haven't had a chance to really
go through it but it looks interesting.
Rachel Heckert
>This is a very good point I think and reminded me of something else.
>The keyboard mapping for Greek characters is of course a bit
>different than the standard English mapping (there are some special
>language letters like "i", [ksi] - need Greek font to read it; there
>are only 24 letters; the key for some of the letters e.g. 'S' is
>ostensibly the same but there is a catch etc). Whenever I have
>to type in Greek text I tend to make a lot of typos in the first
>two or three paragraphs because I need time to get used to the
>different mapping. It gets better with time of course. When I
>have to switch to English, though, I experience the same
>difficulty: the same pattern occurs with lots of typing errors for
>the first few minutes.
>Does anyone else have the same experience?
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>Regards,
>Ilias
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>Department of Curriculum Technology
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>about themselves, that they were ancient Greeks"
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