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[quote=MISHEN ,31855]Studying Mandarin is a first-class choice. The more you look into those characters, the more you'll relaise that Chinese writing is simply the world's most elegant and rich script. It's the world's greatest cultural achievement so far, in my opinion.Typing pinyin with accent marks requires special fonts that most people don't have installed, and using the numbers are too cumbersome - so virtually everyone who communicates in pinyin will not use tone indications and will rely on context for meaning, which works fine. I'd say that for general correspondence, it would be unusual and unnatural to specify pronunciation marks with pinyin texts.To type characters, go into the control panel and look for language settings - under that category you can have an option to add languages, so choose Simplified Chinese, and select MS-PINYIN as an input method. If it's not on the list, you'll need to hunt for a checkbox that enables East Asian text support - you'll need to insert the XP CD to add the files.Once installed, you'll have a blue language icon in the system tray near the clock from then on - click that whenever you want to type Chinese, and select Pinyin input. Then, type 'ma' to select from a list of possible characters. Very simple system to learn for foreigners!Good luck![/quote]
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