Q1: “Jing, do I really need to learn how to write in Chinese?” Because of technology, nowadays more and more people tend to just learn Pinyin and then type Chinese characters instead of writing them down. It indeed seems more convenient and easier. However, for a Chinese learner, writin...
How to write Chinese characters, is a question that often boggles the minds of Chinese learners. Like me you might find yourself wondering where to even begin when it comes to learning 50,000 of them! Unlike some other languages, for example Latin based languages, where you can focus on sp...
和Since we enter different characters,we seldom need to be able to recognize the difference between characters in detail;the computer makes the right choices for us.Do we really need to write Chinese by hand at all?(由于我们输入不同的字符,我们很少需要能够详细识别字符之间的差异;电...
This tutorial will help you configure Ubuntu computer so you can write Chinese input () using keyboard. This is not to be confused with switching desktop language to Chinese as it has been documented in another tutorial. In this tutorial, we will useIBustechnology andNoto CJKfont provided built...
I’ve been teaching beginner courses in Chinese for more than ten years, but I still remember what it was like to write my first characters. When starting to learn Chinese characters, one of the first questions that pop up is how to learn them. I don’t mean what characters to study,...
Before I go into any details about the strategy itself, there are a few words to be said about the goal. My goal is to be able to write most things by hand that I can already type on a computer. That means that vocabulary, grammar and so on isn’t part of what I’m talking abo...
So far,the computer (2) has become(become) a very useful tool to help people to write.As people use computers more often than before,many people have forgotten how to write Chinese characters(字).People often makes plenty of (3) mistakes(mistake) in writing. The Chinese ...
So if you find yourself in the position of needing to write an email in Chinese, you may be sweating a bit. Still, it’s definitely doable, even for a beginner Mandarin learner! Our guide here can help anybody who wants towrite an email in Chinese,be it for businessor another polite ...
order. Each component is made of smaller strokes.Themodern modular strokesare based on the “扎”字法, which are regulated into five types: “一”(横)、“丨”(竖)、 “丿”(撇)、“丶”(点)and“乛” (折). This system is the foundation for Chinese people to learnhow to write ...
Here’s how to translate text from one language to another in Outlook, Word, and Excel — and how to transform spoken words into real-time captions in another language with PowerPoint.