One of the most important parts of learning the alphabet and the Russian language in general is getting used to typing on a Russian keyboard. I recommend starting to use the Cyrillic alphabet on your computer as soon as possible. Here are a couple suggestions for you: – Start with typing online (using a keyboard at the very beginning might be frustrating:)). Check out this site – – Order the Russian keyboard on eBay or Amazon.
Here you have three ways: 1) you can buy stickers and put them on the Latin characters one by one (kind of a meditating process!); 2) you can buy a silicone keyboard cover (best choice for Mac); 3) you can buy a Russian USB keyboard itself. Each of them cost no more than $10, so it’s up to you to decide which one is better.
I did some searching and wasn't able to find any. Maybe someone else will have better luck, or perhaps you can use a labelmaker and print your own.
However, is there another problem here? By default, the keys labels are more or less correct: on a Windows keyboard, Windows Ctrl maps to Mac Ctrl, Windows Alt maps to Mac Option/Alt, and the Windows key maps to the Command (formerly co-labeled with open-Apple, so it's kind of like the logos match up) key. The only problem here is that the positions of the Cmd and Opt keys are swapped when comparing Mac keyboards to Windows keyboards.
You can change this in System Preferences Keyboard Keyboard (tab, selected by default) Modifier Keys. Choose the external keyboard at the top, and change as you see fit-probably just swapping Option and Command. Of course, then you're left with the problem that the labels don't match up, but if you're used to the shortcuts and don't need to look at the keys, this won't be a problem. By the way, if you're new to Mac, Windows uses Ctrl for a lot of shortcuts that Mac uses Cmd for (Mac reserves Ctrl more or less for command-line usage and now secondary clicks on mice), so the position of something like Cmd+C vs. Ctrl+C might take some getting used to. You can swap these keys if you want (same as above), but I think it's worth getting used to if you'll use Macs on a regular basis at all.
You dont wanna glue anything to your Mac, you gonna regret this. Having said that, I may know of one thing to help you. There are companies that make a sort of 'gel cover' for keyboards.
Its not gel, sticky or anything, dont worry about this, its a really soft plastic that covers the keys. This plastics has diferent keys on it in order to change a keyboard alphabet. Let me give you an example: -I have a russian friend that has a Russian alphabet cover on top of an american keyboard. So the keys shows the cyrillic letters insteat of the latin letters Therefore its possible for example to get a american cover and place it on top of a Mac keybaord and trasnform it into a Windows keyboard. Hopefully, the companies will have covers for the Mac keybard as well, and if you get one of theses, you can tarnsform your windows keyboard into a mac keyboard. You dont wanna glue anything to your Mac, you gonna regret this. Having said that, I may know of one thing to help you.
There are companies that make a sort of 'gel cover' for keyboards. Its not gel, sticky or anything, dont worry about this, its a really soft plastic that covers the keys. This plastics has diferent keys on it in order to change a keyboard alphabet.
Let me give you an example: -I have a russian friend that has a Russian alphabet cover on top of an american keyboard. So the keys shows the cyrillic letters insteat of the latin letters Therefore its possible for example to get a american cover and place it on top of a Mac keybaord and trasnform it into a Windows keyboard. Hopefully, the companies will have covers for the Mac keybard as well, and if you get one of theses, you can tarnsform your windows keyboard into a mac keyboard.
Click to expand.If you re-read the OP, I think it's not the Mac keyboard that the poster is talking about, and it is actually the opposite direction the poster is wondering about. But that might work: if any PC keyboards are popular enough to have covers made for them like some Mac keyboards do, the cover could be used and, if not present, a label placed on top of the key. However, I've also seen sticker sets that do this (for Dvorak or Cyrillic or various other layouts/input methods), but if it's a separate sticker for each key they usually don't include modifier keys since they don't generally change. Of course, a third option is to get another keyboard if you aren't too attached (and maybe sell the old one to make up some of the cost).
Many are labeled for both Windows and Mac. But again, it may be helpful to know this is a label problem or a physical position problem, because as I mentioned in my previous post, there software options available.
If you re-read the OP, I think it's not the Mac keyboard that the poster is talking about, and it is actually the opposite direction the poster is wondering about. But that might work: if any PC keyboards are popular enough to have covers made for them like some Mac keyboards do, the cover could be used and, if not present, a label placed on top of the key. However, I've also seen sticker sets that do this (for Dvorak or Cyrillic or various other layouts/input methods), but if it's a separate sticker for each key they usually don't include modifier keys since they don't generally change. Of course, a third option is to get another keyboard if you aren't too attached (and maybe sell the old one to make up some of the cost). Many are labeled for both Windows and Mac. But again, it may be helpful to know this is a label problem or a physical position problem, because as I mentioned in my previous post, there software options available. Click to expand.Jumping in here as I am looking for a keyboard that will do both and you commented there are some.
I did a search and didn't find any. What I have is all day I toggle between a Windows PC system and a Mac system (work and personal at the same desk).
Cyrillic Russian English Virtual Keyboard
I have two keyboards right now, but would like to convert to one if there is such a thing. If I do get one keyboard, I am hopping it has the controls for both. Maybe I don't know all the shortcuts, but for example, I can't even figure out how to do a carriage return inside Excel - with the mac board on a PC. And I have never gotten it to work on the Mac with the Mac board.
If you know of any of the dual keyboards can you send me a link or a name. Also love the idea of the cover for the Windows board if that exists.I might look for that too. Click to expand.Actually, the default behavior is that Windows Alt = Mac Option/Alt, and Windows key = Command key. The behavior you described above, however, is what you can change it to in System Preferences, and it's what I think most people would actually want to do since it then matches the standard key positions on Mac keyboards (despite the resulting mismatched labels). But, yes, just about everything else is the same, except PC Num Lock = Mac 'Clear,' and I'm not sure what Insert will do, which Mac keyboards seem to lack (replaced with Help or now Function, but the latter won't matter on a non-special keyboard-not that the former has been used much lately, either).