For example, if you go on rzd.ru (Russian Railways), you can type "vjcrdf" and it reads it as Москва. It's a clever layout that feels very natural when you start typing Russian words - for example, many words that end with the letter т are followed by ь - on the Russian layout, these are right next to each other.Īlso, something learners may not realize is that many Russian websites actually accept Latin characters as Cyrillic. Secondly, you'll learn the Russian keyboard faster than you think. Я - Ya, Ю - Yu, Ш - Sh, Щ - Shsh How can you map these very common letters to single keys? This is also why the phonetic keyboard fails. Is Ж - J or Zh? Is Х - Kh or H? Is Ч - Ch or Tch? It's not like Serbian where there is both a functional Latin and Cyrillic script alphabet, there is no agreed way to transliterate the Russian alphabet to the English alphabet, so any attempt at learning Russian without Cyrillic script is a waste of time, in my opinion. There's only one option in Russian: the Russian alphabet (edit: which Duolingo uses when you choose Cyrillic script). I've posted a few rants about why the phonetic Russian keyboard bugs me and I decided to collect these into a post to help anyone new to Russian and wondering which path to take.įirstly, Duolingo offers a Latin script or Cyrillic script option, this may lull you into this is a real option when learning Russian.
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