RichardVV Posted July 10, 2008 at 01:22 PM Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 at 01:22 PM Are there any courses that teach chinese input that you have seen/attended/heard of? After some thought I realized I still want to learn Canjie ... while learning PinYin as Primary of course. Heard of any courses or seminars or lessons or anything online or offline that teach Canjie? Please, anything you have heard of, I'll digg into even just rumours. Courses on any other input methods would be great too since I want to do a project about Chinese input. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senzhi Posted July 10, 2008 at 02:21 PM Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 at 02:21 PM In my school, as part of their graduation in Foreign Trade, students do have the requirement of being able to type Chinese blindly at a set speed (not sure how many characters/minute though). They usually practice this extensively in MS Word during computer class, with the standard MS IME input method on Windows 98. I fell upon this when I realised some of my students were not able to create, send and/or reply to an email. I was wondering what they then learned during computer class. Well ... the above was the answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardVV Posted July 10, 2008 at 02:28 PM Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 at 02:28 PM is your school in China, or the US EUP or other country? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodtarget Posted July 11, 2008 at 03:02 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 03:02 AM I don't know about books or courses, but if you do a google search for Cangjie, you'll get a lot of pages about the input method. This one was one of the first ones that popped up for me, and it seems to give a pretty lengthy explanation of typing in Cangjie. Most actual courses/books on Cangjie are probably in Chinese, which makes sense since it seems rather pointless to learn Chinese typing if you don't know Chinese. Richard, didn't you say in another thread that you're a beginner learning Chinese? If you want to learn Cangjie, I think it might be easier to wait until you have learned a fair amount of Chinese (especially becoming familiar with the characters), but that is just my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted July 11, 2008 at 04:20 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 04:20 AM I agree. Learning a shape-based character method before you have learned a reasonable number of characters will be much more difficult. As for pinyin, there's nothing really to learn. You just type the pinyin and the characters appear. Obviously you need to know the pinyin of the character before you can type it, but for that you can just take an ordinary Chinese course, not one specific to Chinese Input. You might also be interested in this page which has a break down of various different input methods. Anyway, although in China I'm sure there are plenty of training courses available for people wanting to learn to type in Chinese, I think you would find that for those courses, all instruction and materials would be given in Chinese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Senzhi Posted July 11, 2008 at 04:21 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 04:21 AM is your school in China, or the US EUP or other country? I'm in Shantou, Guangdong. If you need more specific details, PM me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardVV Posted July 11, 2008 at 04:46 AM Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 04:46 AM Does anyone use supporting software for typing chinese? Such as dictionaries or grammer checkers or software that can find out keying methods? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardVV Posted July 11, 2008 at 07:18 AM Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 07:18 AM Just wondering how other people learnt to input chinese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don_Horhe Posted July 11, 2008 at 07:39 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 07:39 AM I'm using the standard Windows IME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikevwilliams Posted July 11, 2008 at 07:53 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 07:53 AM I'm using the Sogou Pinyin IME. It's very good, I like it better than the standard Windows Chinese IME. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted July 11, 2008 at 07:57 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 07:57 AM Merging two similar topics - Richard, you've started four topics in the last week or so on input methods or very closely related topics. Might be better to keep them all in once place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foodtarget Posted July 11, 2008 at 09:29 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 09:29 AM I'm using the Google Pinyin IME, it's very cool. You can type traditional and simplified with pinyin. Do other pinyin IMEs let you type in traditional, or are some of them limited to simplified? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imron Posted July 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM Report Share Posted July 11, 2008 at 10:19 AM Almost any modern Chinese IME will allow you to type both Traditional and Simplified. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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