哈囉，大家好！ 哈啰，大家好！ Hello everyone!
I’m Grace
In today’s video, I’m going to teach you how to type in Chinese
on your computer and your phone.
There are many different ways to type out Chinese
but in this video, I’ll mainly be talking about two different ways:
漢語拼音輸入法
the Pinyin input method
and 注音輸入法
the Zhuyin input method.
At the end of this video, I’ll introduce a very useful tool
that can help you improve your typing speed.
那我們現在就開始吧！ 那我们现在就开始吧！ Now let’s get started!
To type in Chinese, there are two important steps.
First, type out the sounds of the Chinese characters,
and you can choose to type in Pinyin or Zhuyin.
Second, select the right characters you want.
OK, now let’s start with 漢語拼音輸入法,
the Pinyin input method
On the computer, when using the Pinyin input method,
you don’t have to type out Chinese tones.
Just type out the initial and final sounds of the words.
for example, for "你好", you can just type
“ni hao”
and since it’s a common phrase, it shows up at the beginning of the list.
If the first one is what you want,
you can just click on the space bar.
If it’s not the Chinese you want,
see if it appears in the following suggestions
and click on the number.
If you still cannot find the one you want,
then you’d need to click on the down key on your keyboard and find it.
OK, now here are some tips and tricks for you to increase your typing speed:
So normally, you would type out the initial and final sounds of each character,
but for common words or expressions,
you can just type out their initial sounds and you will see them show up.
For example, for “你好”,
you can just type “n h”, and then you’ll see it.
If you want to type “謝謝你”,
you can just type “x x n”.
OK, now let’s try to type out a whole sentence:
“我明天沒辦法去"
"I can’t go tomorrow”
"我", and click the space bar.
"明天" is also a common word,
so let’s just type out its initial sounds,
and then the space bar.
“沒辦法” is a common phrase,
so we can type it together
去 by itself
Now let’s see how to type on the phone.
So basically, it’s the same as how you type on the computer,
just that you don’t have to click on the space bar,
you can just select the words from the suggestion list.
Let’s try typing in the same sentence.
“我明天沒辦法去" ("I can’t go tomorrow”)
"我"
"明天"
"沒辦法"
"去"
Here you go!
Oh, and when you want to type the “ü” sound,
this symbol doesn’t exist on the keyboard,
so we use “v” to represent this “ü” sound.
For example, to type “女" ("nü”),
you need to type out “nv”.
OK, that’s all for the 漢語拼音輸入法, the Pinyin input method.
Now let’s move on to the one that I use,
注音輸入法
the Zhuyin input method
Zhuyin is the phonetic symbols used in Taiwan,
so most Taiwanese people use this input method.
If you’re in Taiwan, you probably have seen keyboards that look like this:
These symbols are Zhuyin.
If you haven’t learned Zhuyin yet, you can check out this video first.
OK now let’s see how to use the Zhuyin input method on the computer.
If you want to type “你好”,
you need to type out the sounds for each character,
"ㄋ ㄧ", and the third tone, "你",
and then "ㄏ ㄠ"
and again the third tone, "好",
and you will see the phrase shows up.
Here you will see an underline,
which means you can still select other Chinese characters,
but if they are already the one you want, just press “Enter”.
Here are the keys used for the tones.
For the first tone, we use the space bar.
Now let’s try to type out a sentence
“昨天那部電影很好看”
Type "ㄗㄨㄛ" and the second tone,
"ㄊㄧㄢ" and the first tone,
and then press “Enter”.
Type "那部電影"
and click "Enter".
And type "很好看"
and again press “Enter”.
Personally, I like to click "Enter" whenever I finish a chunk of words
or even a single word.
And as with the Pinyin input method,
if you type out the sounds but the characters are not what you want,
just click on the down key on your keyboard and find the characters you want.
Now let’s move on to learning how to type on the phone in Zhuyin.
When typing on the phone, you don’t necessarily need to type out Chinese tones,
especially for common words.
For example,
to type "上課" ("taking classes"),
I can just type "ㄕㄤ" and "ㄎㄜ",
then “上課” shows up.
And I would just need to click on the word.
Personally, I still type out the tones here and there
to help find the right characters more easily.
Just like in the Pinyin input method,
you can type faster with common words or expressions,
since you can just type out their initial sounds
and see them show up. For example,
If I want to type a common word
“昨天 yesterday”
I just need to type out "ㄗ" and "ㄊ",
and then it shows up.
OK, now let’s try to type “昨天那部電影很好看”
on the phone.
"昨天"
"那部"
"電影"
"很好看"
Now that we’ve learned how to type in Chinese,
let’s take a look at a useful tool for improving your typing speed.
It’s a website called “10FastFingers”.
First of all, you need to choose a language.
In Chinese, you can choose whether you want simplified or traditional Chinese.
Let’s pick the one that I use,
and then just like this, you can start practicing your typing skills!
I’ve put the link of this website in the description.
Alright, that’s all for today’s video!
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