Typing Chinese can be a daunting chore, even for highly literate, native speakers. Now a very convenient option is available for free, through Microsoft’s Chinese website. This new system enables users to type in a pinyin (Romanized Chinese) word or phrase and then, as if by magic, the traditional Chinese characters appear. For non-native Chinese language illiterates, Hong Kong Yahoo’s online bilingual-translating dictionary, with pinyin, (http://hk.dictionary.yahoo.com/) offers not only a short cut to writing in Chinese, but also a beneficial enhancement for learning Putonghua (普通話)... it worked for our in-house Chinese illiterate, Mr. Hill, who managed to supply all of the Chinese characters for this blog entry. Wikipedia summarizes Chinese input methods for computers at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_input_methods_for_computers and a good related article with links can be found at Slate.com: http://www.slate.com/id/2136726/
MSPY2003 is also available on the SPCS Intranet:
file://Vod/ed_resources/MSPY2003.msi
Typing Chinese can be a daunting chore, even for highly literate, native speakers. Now a very convenient option is available for free, through Microsoft’s Chinese website. This new system enables users to type in a pinyin (Romanized Chinese) word or phrase and then, as if by magic, the traditional Chinese characters appear. For non-native Chinese language illiterates, Hong Kong Yahoo’s online bilingual-translating dictionary, with pinyin, (http://hk.dictionary.yahoo.com/) 
