Russian English Speakers at Toastmasters Club in London, England

Problem
Where can you practise Reading, writing and speaking Russian?

Answer
In London, England, there is a Russian speaking Toastmasters club. I found out when I was notified by Meetup in London.

Russian-English Speakers Toastmasters (London)

Говорим, слушаем, учимся, смеёмся

Monday, 6:45 PM Jul 17 2017.

In Russia, Toastmasters International says:

RUSSIAN TOASTMASTERS

Toastmasters Russia consists of 5 clubs in Moscow and 1 club in St. Petersburg. The pioneer one was founded in Moscow in the year 1990 and the youngest club was formed just in February 2014.

Tips

For speakers clubs in English and foreign languages, see

www.toastmasters.org/find-a-club
For the Toastmasters club in London, England
http://www.russianenglishlondon.co.uk

You can learn Russian on 

www.duolingo.com

Russian, French, and other language groups on
www.meetup.com

For more about the Russian alphabet and Russian keyboard and the Cyrillic alphabet and learning Russian see my other posts. Please share links to your favourite posts.

Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and speaker, teacher of languages.

How to read, write and type Welsh

Problem
How do I type the Welsh accents on letters?

Answers
here they are:
 â ê î ô ŵ ŷ ï

I have left them small so you can copy them, if you can't find them on your keyboard. Then I made them large so you can see the accents clearly even if you are looking at a small screen.
 â ê î ô ŵ ŷ ï

The accents like a hat or upside down v are on the vowels
a e i o and the W and Y.

In addition the letter i can have a double dot.

â is formed on my Mac laptop keyboard by pressing down the letter a with the number 3.

e same again e and letter 3.

i is the letter i and a number one. î

o ô easy again the number one.

w
y when you press it down brings up a double dot, no use in Welsh.
i and the number 2 produced the i with the double dot like this ï

Tips
To learn Welsh words and simple grammar and hear the words pronounced, use
www.Duolingo.com Press on the symbol for listening in most of the exercises.
If you type the word accents into a search engine such as google you will get pronunciation rather than typing symbols.

To type the letter
http://welsh.typeit.org

To visit wales:
www.visitwales.com

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, teacher of English and other languages.
Please see my other posts on languages and sights to see in Wales. Share links to your favourite posts.

Attach The Keyboard, Draw and erase on an iPad; or Sony Xperia phone

Attaching The Keyboard
First I learned how to attach the iPad to the keyboard. I'd been trying to balance it in the nearest groove. Instead you attach it to the magnetic triple dot at the back of the keyboard concertina flap. Then you fold it back towards the keyboard.

You don't need to plug the keyboard in. The keyboard is now connected to the iPad using the three teeny pinhole sockets

I drew a quick caricature on the iPad as a test to see how to use the Apple pencil and features.

If you can't afford the iPad and pencil but want to try drawing,I had discovered that you can draw using many programmes on smart phones. For instance, on a Sony Xperia, I was able to draw people who sat nearby when I was sitting waiting in a queue.

Delete Triangle
If you wish to delete a hasty line, a wrong colour or a circle which is misshapen, you touch the reverse arrow at the top of the icons on the column on the left of the iPad in vertical mode. This deletes the whole of the last action.

Delete Eraser Symbol
If you wish to be more delicate, just cut out part of the last line you drew, you tap on the symbol for the rubber. To start drawing again, remember to tap once more on the pencil symbol.

When you have finished, you might want to save your drawing to another device such as a phone or laptop and then upload it to a website such as blogger.com, Instagram or Webpress.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, caricaturist, author and speaker.

Learning Hebrew with Duolingo, Hebrew Alphabet song, Hebrew Keyboard

I started learning Hebrew with Duolingo. It is still in the Beta stage. That's the experimental stage when you can try it out and give them feedback so they can iron out problems.

Foreign Alphabets
I had been getting along fine with the Russian on Duolingo, but was stuck on the first lesson of the Hebrew, although I already knew many of the Hebrew letters.

The first thing I did with Russian was to copy out the letters and stick the guide in the back of my diary. I shall now do this with the Hebrew.

Reciting Alphabets
I can recite the Hebrew alphabet, but it's all a bit jumbled: aleph bet (vet), gimal dalet, hay vuv, zayin... kalph lamed, mem nun, pay Fay, tsadick, coo-f, raiy-sh, shin, samech ay-in, tough ...

Alphabet Songs
In English we have a song for the alphabet.
ABCDEFG (ay bee see dee ee e f f gee
HIJKLMNOP (aitch i jay kay - el-em en-oh pea
QRSTUV queue ah ess tea you vee
WXY Zee double yew ex why zee.

Maybe there's a song for the Hebrew alphabet sung in English of course.
aleph bet vet gim-al duv
..... shin t u v or something like that.

Well - what do you know - would you believe it, there are several on Youtube. Here's the first one I found:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiCzoTs1AdE

Installing The Hebrew Keyboard For Windows
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17424/windows-change-keyboard-layout

Installing The Hebrew Keyboard For Mac

If you're using Mac: Open System Preferences. Click the International button. Click "Input Menu". Scroll down until you see Hebrew, then put a check next to it. Put a check next to "Show input menu in menu bar". To change the language to Hebrew when you type, click on the American flag on the top right of the menu bar, and then choose Hebrew.

Virtual keyboard: https://www.branah.com/hebrew

Here's a site which teaches you the Hebrew letters of the alphabet and the vowels.
http://www.cartoonhebrew.com/hey

1 I had already downloaded the Hebrew alphabet. So now when I click on the small UK flag up pop several other alphabets I have chosen to use.

The problem is, I don't know where the Hebrew letters are under the QWERTY keyboard.

I am looking for an answer which I shall upload shortly.

I have found one website which shows the Hebrew letters and I have printed it. I can stand it up beside my keyboard. The theory is that you toggle or press escape and the Hebrew will come up, click a second time and then go back to qwerty.

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author, speaker, language teacher.