Hey guys this is Eddie aka bulletproof monk. Welcome to the first lesson of
actually learning Chinese properly or Mandarin so what we want to do first is
give you guys the tool to be able to type Chinese on the screen now you might
say dude I'm only here to learn the basics I only want to say how are you or
what's your name or how do I get to the airport if that's what you're looking
for then there's probably a million other YouTube videos where you can learn
to do that so to make sure that you guys are committed I'm gonna get you guys to
setup the writing system on your computer straight away so that you guys
can start typing in Chinese and therefore at the same time we can learn
to write to speak to listen to read all at the same time and that's what we want
to do so this is for people who seriously want to start learning some
Chinese so okay the first step is we're going to go to the control panel so
obviously this is assuming that you have Windows just type it up here so I'm just
gonna type in languages so Region and Language so if you click on change
keyboards or other input methods that's the one you got to click on in order to
add a new input method to be able to type in Chinese on your computer so we
click that and then you can see there's four tabs up here and we're gonna click
on the one that says keyboards and languages and then we're gonna click on
change keyboards this is what it should look like for you because right now the
only thing you're typing on your computer is English
unless you have five other languages or something so click Add and then you can
see here there's all of these languages that you can type on your computer how
cool is that now I want you to look for Chinese simplified PRC this one here now
PRC stands for People's Republic of China which is like China's full name so
you click that and then you click on the plus button next to keyboard and then
what we want is the second one which says Microsoft Pinyin new experience
input so just click that one the second one alright new experience it sounds
better anyway so click OK click OK click OK and we're going to close down the
control panel and now I want you guys to open up notepad so just make your font a
bit bigger in notepad so it's slightly bigger and to test out your new input
method on the bottom right hand corner click on the English icon and choose
chinese Simplified now you'll see all these different icons on the bottom
right-hand corner and we'll discuss what they mean later on but right now if you
click on the screen and you type something for example ma now straight
away you can see that there is some words to choose from on the screen now
these are all different Chinese words pronounced the same way as ma and if you
choose the number one character ma
and press Enter you have just typed your first Chinese
character on the screen and now you might say hang on how do I go back to
typing in English if you go back down on the bottom right hand corner and switch
this back to English now I'm just going to type horse and that's what this
character means horse and ma refers to the horse so this concludes the first
lesson on Chinese from this lesson you should have learnt how to type Chinese
if you have an apple or something like that I don't know what operating system
you use just look up on YouTube a tutorial for ping in input method
because that's what you want to setup on your computer so that you can enter
Chinese on your computer and I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson
where we're going to do a bit more Chinese.