Pin Yin input on Mac
This guy has a great writeup on how to get PinYin accents on Mac
Once you have the U.S. Extended keyboard enabled you can use the following key strokes to do the accent marks:
* Alt+a for the first tone – ā
* Alt+e for the second tone – á
* Alt+v for the third tone – ǎ
* Alt+` for the forth tone – à
* To type ü, type Alt+u then u
* To type ü with tone marks, use the same Alt+[aev`] from above for the tone, then type v. For example, to type ǚ, type Alt+v then v – ǜ is Alt+` then v
It certainly is hard. I’ve almost completed “Unit 1″ of this course I am doing, 50 hours of class time. It is the most effort I’ve ever put into learning a second language.
It’s good, I know some basics which help me get around, order food, etc. Still got a *long* way to go… My goal is not nessesarily fluency, but I would like to travel, and it really helps to have some language skills (also it helps if you want to eat tasty food in places with no english/picture menus… which I do all the time. I do love my food!).
Do you speak any other languages?
Cool. Are you picking up much Chinese language skill? It’s a hard one to learn…