subject: Surfing Google And Youtube With Arabic Phrases [print this page] If you are clueless about typing Arabic using an English keyboard, touch typing is the solution. You click the letters you want to publish on a virtual keyboard. What is more, you can also make a quick search with the Arabic phrase on popular sites such as Google and YouTube.
You want to traverse the Internet to find out what Arabic media has to say about the killing of Gaddafi or the Egyptian uprising, or may be, you just want to find out how to cook your favourite Arab dish. You know just a click in Google will take you to the leading Arab media sites or a search in YouTube will produce for you series of videos on the topic.
However, you just cant do that despite having a computer and an Internet connection. The problem is you just dont know to type Arabic using an English keyboard. Even if you download Arabic font, you wont know how to type it on your keyboard. Even if you do that with great pains, scourging all the keys for every single letter of your, it will just kill your enthusiasm for surfing.
You may think putting stickers on the keyboard will help. It will. But only when you know the what-is-what of Arabic typing i.e. which letter of Arabic the keyword will produce when you press a specific key. In fact, if you know that, you just wont need to put the stickers. You can just download the font and begin typing.
Well, the solution of your dilemma is touch typing. There are websites which will produce virtual keyboard diagrams showing you the letters they will publish when clicked. So you just dont need to use the hardware. You can type what you want using the online keyboard with the same effect.
There are a few sites which will let you scour Google or YouTube using their platform, simplifying your task. You just type your phrase, click on the buttons provided and it will fetch for you the Google or YouTube results for the same. Searching for Arabic terms on the Internet wont get simpler, will it?
You can use the virtual keyboard to practice typing on the hardware as well. Just put the virtual one on the screen and type of the real keyboard with its help. They will also provide transliteration of Arabic keyboard letters, making the task easier for the people who are not very used to Arabic writing. A few weeks of regular practice and your fingers will master it. If you want to type longer text, learning typing on the hardware will certainly help. However, if your purpose is to search for the specific Arabic terms, using virtual keyboards on such websites will be perfect.
In fact, if you are using the virtual keyboard in an Internet abled mobile device, it is more convenient than deploying the hard keys, Arabic or any other language. Virtual typing keeps your fingers from tiring out quickly as well.
People who want to learn to read and write Arabic will find perfect support in such sites. In fact, learning a language in such a way enables one to learn quicker than using a book. A virtual keyboard is backed by the ocean of information that the Internet is, quite unlike any other medium.
