I understand what you mean. I have typed on some keyboards in France and Finland. It does slow you down but you do get used to it after a while.
When I lived in Russia, I taught myself to type with Cyrillic letters. That was painfully slow. Finally, I obtained an "ok" speed. Now, I do not have one. However, I type phonetically in with a Latin alphabet and then transliterate it with Russ Key a Firefox addon which works fairly well.
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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I already had a lot of trouble when I got home with the "shift" characters!
I learned to type on a keyboard which has, what we call, a Dutch layout. But, generally, the keyboards you can get here has the US-international layout. (which is really funny, considering I learned to type in the States, and live in the Netherlands...)
And the one time I had to use a Belgium keyboard, my typing was so slow as if I'd never seen a keyboard before  |