Have you ever started writing an email and found yourself thinking: “I haven’t had a drink in hours, yet I still can’t manage to string three words together without a typo. I must be going mad!” Only then do you glance down at your hands and realize that you’re not suffering from the shakes, but rather the letters on your keyboard are all switched around. And unless it’s nerdy April Fool’s day joke, you’re likely looking at a foreign language keyboard.
I’ve fallen prey to the non-English keyboard several times, including a long standing feud between me and a bilingual Russian/Armenian PC keyboard while living in Armenia. And although the occasional encounter during a short trip might be a minor inconvenience, regular exposure to an unfamiliar keyboard can be enough to send your head through a monitor.
Fortunately for those at risk of keyboard-induced head trauma, keybr.com offers typing lessons in a several different languages and keyboard configurations.
The on-screen keyboard shows you where the various keys would be on, say, a Brazilian Portuguese keyboard so that you can practice before you ever leave home. You can even choose to type content from any RSS feed, killing two birds with one Rosetta Stone.
Now if you’re sticking around home for a while and have decided it’s time to evolve from a hunt-and-peck typist, Mashable has profiled 8 great sites that will help you learn to type faster properly. (Whatever you do, don’t miss out on QWERTY Warriors.)
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