Unable to type certain characters like nani/choshi etc in japanese ime

[Aniket_Borkar13]

hi friends, I’m presently learning Japanese 1 by memrise

I have installed Japanese IME on windows 10, howver I’m unable to type certain characters-eg nani, choshi,genki desu - windows should supposedly automatically covert it to Japanese when I type in romaji however it doesn’t

do any of you have the same problem? what did you do?

[RyouBakura]

Press Shift+Caps Lock to switch between Romaji and Hiragana. To get the Kanji, type what you want in hiragana, and then press Space. (You will get Kanji suggestions)

Edit: This was just posted by another user:

Japanese 1 Course asking me to type in Japanese

The best method for using IME is to type romaji, which automatically converts to hiragana and press enter after each word. If you need katakana, press f7 and then enter to convert the whole word to katakana. If you need kanji, type out the reading in hiragana and press space to scroll through kanji with that reading or with a reading close to what you typed. In very rare cases, you may need to look up the kanji you want with f5 and search through a dictionary to find it. Most Japanese people typ…

Hope that helps.