Learning typing for another language.

[magic10101]

How can you type in Jpaanese, or hebrew or Arabic, when you don't have the keyboards to do it, HOW PEOPLE HOW!!!!

[Dcarl1]

On iOS you can add new keyboards in Settings/General/Keyboards/Add New Keyboard.

[BeCreative__]

Yeah, there is that too which is what I do.

[sora592xcd]

When I learned to type in Russian, I went on Amazon and bought some little keyboard stickers. That helped me learn where the letters were. I also admit to a guilty love of typing Russian and French on my phone, which is (for some reason) much easier. :)

[BeCreative__]

Dancepoints idea is good. I have heard that suggestion for arabic. I haven't really taken the time trying to learn hebrew and knowing some arabic to know how to type. With Hebrew, I am still learning the alphabet in a way because I had a ten year gap in using the language. Arabic, I know the letters and I could probably figure it out with a little memorization (or the stickers like dance point suggests).

But for now I use a shortcut to change the keyboard on screen and type with my mouse. In hebrew it is not like I saying a ton, and more or less with arabic knowing its not efficient.

[idkhbtfm]

In addition to what everyone else said, there's usually a stickied post at the top of the Popular section of that forum that has instructions.

[slogger]

The "games" mentioned in this discussion look good, but I haven't tried them.

There are phone apps, downloadable programs and websites that will teach you to type using another alphabet/writing system. You can also just print out a little chart that you make yourself of the keys on the keyboard you'll be typing at, setup a little window on your screen w/ the information, put stickers on your keyboard, buy a new keyboard w/ the keys marked, learn from a book, or take a typing class.

The instructions listed here are pretty good for Windows and Apple systems and may help with the languages that you're interested in.

[testmoogle]

You don't need to buy different physical computer keyboards to type in those languages. I think a lot of people think this.

For Japanese you don't even need to memorise a new keyboard layout! Japanese people use the same keyboard layout as English. They type on their keyboards in romaji and it automatically converts into hiragana on the screen.

Example: typing these two keys S U converts to す on the screen, and typing these three keys S H I converts to し. That's how Japanese people type the word すし (sushi). ^^

Just need to set the input language to Japanese rather than English, and then it automatically converts romaji to hiragana. :)