Thanks for the support! Feel free to share any tips you have and as the sidebar here says Cantonese and other non-Mandarin Chinese languages are welcome!
I’ve used many apps, but the only ones I use now is Pleco and Skritter. In some cases I have also used ChatGPT, which can be surprisingly useful. Skritter is quite expensive, so I might choose something else if I started over today.
Everyone’s path is different I think. As for me, I learned simplified character at first. At that point I used pinyin. Later I started learning traditional characters and decided to learn zhuyin at the same time. I liked it much more than pinyin. For along time I typed simplified using pinyin(no zhuyin for simplified) and traditional characters using zhuyin. But lately I discovered shuangpin, which is about as fast as zhuyin, but I can use it for anything. I highly recommend learning shuangpin if you study mandarin. It’s very fast and easier to learn than zhuyin. You can type both simplified and traditional, and it’s perfect to use on physical keyboards. Zhuyin on keyboards doesn’t work very well.
As for HK’ers. I think they traditionally use cangjie(倉頡) or other shape-based input methods. But lately I’ve heard rumours about input methods using jyutping(粵拼). I don’t know much about it, however.
Hey @Tencha! I had a similar idea and started up @learnChinese mainly because I hadn't seen any one else do it yet. Pretty indifferent to whichever zine gets used, just looking to make a community here! I was thinking of making some posts on my zine on some of the resources I used, is it alright if I cross-post them here too? Still getting used to the whole fediverse and the fragmentation of communities like this but looking forward to finding some people to 一起學中文!
Yeah, I’m new too. I didn’t see your zine before I created this one. That is perhaps my mistake. But I think it’s better if we just stick to one. You can choose which one, if you want. I don’t care about being mod or anything like that, so I have no attachment.
No worries at all! Searching isn't all that intuitive yet and we are all learning. @chinese is probably more intuitive for people to find anyway so I'm happy to post here. If we are ever so successful we need to spin off a learning Chinese zine from a general Chinese one I can pick it back up haha.
I mean like general Chinese language content as opposed to specifically Chinese for people learning Chinese. I imagine most people coming here will be learners but I could be wrong!
Oh, you mean with only chinese content, such as China_irl? That would be nice. What if we keep this zine(I can add you as mod), and you create a new zine only for chinese content? Or we could use this for Chinese content and the other group for learning content. Not sure which would be better.
No worries, there's currently three of us so we can just keep everything here in /m/chinese for now and see how things go. There's currently three of us so no need to split things up just yet haha.
That’s true. I was just thinking a bit ahead. Maybe /m/chinese for English Chinese content and /m/zhongwen for pure Chinese content. But we should gather some people first, I suppose.
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