Stuck in an internet cafe with an entirely different language set on the keyboard? You could frustratingly navigate your fingers along the foreign keys, tapping cautiously, and lashing out when you realize you just spelled an indecipherable word.

Or you could use this handy Virtual Keyboard from Gate2Home.com

This site enables you to write in your language wherever you are in the world, with an online onscreen keyboard emulator. All you do is select your own language, and a familiar keyboard pops up onscreen for you to start typing your message.

After your done, you just highlight the text box and paste it in an email, blog entry, message home, or whatever. Fantastic.

Ian MacKenzie

Ian MacKenzie is the founder and editor of Brave New Traveler. Aside from writing, he spends his time exploring the fundamental nature of existence and wishing he did more backpacking.