Google Pinyin, Way to Learn Chinese

Like some people in China learn some kinds of foreign language, people in other countries may want to learn chinese. Chinese is really a hard language. No spelling, no "a,b,c", but chinese is just composed by some strange strokes. But as China become more and more important in the world's stage, chinese may be more and more useful. So it is just ok to learn chinese. What's more, China is a very old and mystery country, it is very attractive, and what you should know a country first is to learn it's language, that is chinese.

Like all the other studies, you can learn chinese with a computer. But now what is very awkward appears, you do not know how to input chinese with a standard windows keyboard. That is right, there's no way to input chinese directly from keyboard like english. What you need is a software, which is used to input, that is called ime, which means input method editor.

Ime is a technology to resolve input problem for east asian, whose language can not be typed directly from keyboard to computer. You must use an ime to input. There are many different software to do this job. A good ime software means you can input easily and quickly, and maybe even more correctly. I suggest you use google pinyin as your ime software.

Google pinyin, as it's name, is a product of google. There are 5 big advantage for google pinyin:

1.Intelligent suggestion. Google pinyin can highly guessed out what you want to type, and automatically give you the best suggestion, which means you do not need to manually choose words every time. But because of the peculiarity of chinese language, you will have to choose sometimes. But google pinyin is already good enough.

2.Popular words. With a traditional ime software, it is very hard to type some popular words. You will have to choose different characters nearly every time. As google pinyin is based on search engine, he knows the very words that are popular, and with automatically update, you can type out most popular words easily.

3.Internet synchronization. If you have a google account, you can synchronize your onw dictionary with google server, which means no matter where are you, you can easily use your own dictionary, which is very personalized.

4.One key search. You can search with google as you are typing. But i do not think this function is very useful. I seldom use it. I'd rather open firefox and browse to google, and then search.

5.English suggestion. If google pinyin finds that you are typing an english words, he can suggest you with the correct spelling, just like typing assistant. But not so powerful as typing assistant, which is made to type english.

As google pinyin is so good a software, you do not need to hesitant any more. Go and download it!

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