When you chat in English, you especially want it to be fast and efficient, especially when touch typing without making eny errors. When you chat in Chinese with the pinyin method you’ll like it in the beginning, cause you have the feeling “I CAN FLY!”. But when you start to get used to the habit of typing in Chinese you’ll eventually discover some of the biggest disadvantages. A lot of characters are pronounced the same but written different. And you don’t give the tones in the pinyin method, so it becomes even more unclear. What would be a better way to (speed) type in Chinese more efficient? Answer: wubi
Although it can be very frustrating in the beginning with all the different kind of strokes and even characters you don’t even know how to type. But the most important of it is NOT to give up. Just keep on going. There’s even a program that provides the wubi codes and a website explaining everything from top to bottom (send me a message if you’d like to know more about it). So… chill out and begin slowly, type simple stuff, or take an article and begin typing it. Everyday a different one and eventually you figure out how everything is build up and before you know it you’ll be typing Chinese like a pro!
Good luck!
