I have been learning Chinese for a few weeks, taking a few different courses, but today I tried to start a new course called “100 Chinese Sentences for Day-to-day Use” and found that some of the questions seem to be asking me to enter Chinese characters for the answer.
Example question:
How do I enter such characters? I never had to do this for any of the other Chinese courses on memrize.
You have to do it like any other Chinese person would by using a Pinyin input method. I use Microsoft pinyin input which is on my operating system. You can look up how to activate it as a keyboard input method. Then you type in the pinyin of the words and out come the characters.
@gubespam ~ typing pinyin is one way, but if you don’t want to go that route, I created a simple course to teach people how to enter characters thru Zhuyin (BoPoMoFo), which is the way we type characters here in Taiwan (Traditional Characters, of course). We don’t use pinyin, and we don’t use Simplified Characters.
I don’t like to do shameless self-promotion, but the course link can be found at: http://www.memrise.com/course/725474/an-english-zhuyin-keyboard-course/. There are 2 multimedia levels that are an important part of the course, so if you decide to look at this course, make sure you do so in the web version, since neither the iOS or Android app versions display multimedia levels. Good luck with whatever way you try !
