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I've noticed that some people have been typing words in Japanese on here. How do you do that?
Thanks in advance.
Posted By: AjI've noticed that some people have been typing words in Japanese on here. How do you do that?
Thanks in advance.
Depends on your operating system. If you have Windows XP:
* Go to the Control Panel
* Click the "Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options" icon
* Click "Add other languages"
* Click the two boxes under "Supplemental language support", one support for East Asian languages and one for left-to-right languages.
* Click apply
And you're done. This procedure might require you to insert your Windows XP CD into the computer.
After you've done this, do this:
* Click the "Details" button in the same "Add other languages" window.
* Under "installed services", click the Add button.
* Set japanese as the input language.
Now you simply use the windows language bar to change between English and Japanese.
On a Mac you just go activate the language in System Preferences (you have 50 keyboards or so, out of the box).
And you can keep different input sources for different applications. Quite useful, when you use more than 2 languages.
I've got Windows Vista...Thanks for the replies.
Vista eh? There's always this.
If you want to do it on Vista, it's similar to XP.
Go to Control Panel
Clock, Language, and Region
Change keyboards or other input methods
Keyboards and Languages tab
Change keyboards
Add (Japanese)
Possibly you've sorted it all out by now, but just in case you didn't know...
When you type in 'nihongo' and it appears on the screen as 'にほんご', you have to press the space bar to turn it into '日本語'. Sometimes you'll get a choice if there's more than one possible word.
Just the space bar bit wasn't that obvious for me when I first started typing Japanese.
ありがとがさいます。
私は日本語をはなします。
Although you'd write 話します ;)
Yes, I am a bluntly honest type.Posted By: asmodaiAlthough you'd write 話します ;)
If i wanted to write it in kanji, i did not.
Posted By: AjPosted By: asmodaiAlthough you'd write 話します ;)
If i wanted to write it in kanji, i did not.
There's really not much choice in the matter, some words are supposed to be written in kanji while some are not. Some can be but often aren't. While you could write your whole sentences in kana, no one would want to read them.
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