Using Pinyin on Your Computer

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Using Pinyin on Your Computer

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The invention of pin yin which is the Romanization method used in Main land china for Mandarin is a wonderful tool.

It is just about the same pronounciation in Spanish except for a couple of letter. All Chinese use this system to enter the

character in a computer. There are a couple sounds like the U with two dots over it is not in the English keyboard system.

Also I’ve never found it written how to deal with that problem. I have had to ask friends but then I forget it if not writing Chinese

character. Whenever you need to use a u with an umlaut or two dots over just press the v and the correct character will come

up. It is very easy for the Chinese who have been using the pinyin system since childhood but we foreigners don’t perceive

that as obvious. Now that you have the whole alphabet you can start writing Chinese on your English computer most of the time.

First you have to put in the program for Chinese. Right now simplified is the most used form of characters. The program for our

western computers is not quite as good as the Chinese computers but almost. In window 8 you press the windows button and keep

it down while you press the space button to move the cursor between languages... The directions just say press instead of telling

you to keep it down while you move through the different languages. After Chinese is selected, the shift button will get you in and

out of English. For example I press the windows key then the space key to get to mandarin. Once I’m in Mandarin I type the word

I want phonetically

It appears in order of most common usage. I click on the one I want. Now I want to switch back to English so I press the shift

bar which is the key for capitals.. With this knowledge you are ready to write in Mandarin.