ni hao! Wo jiao Whitefrost. Wo shi (word for contest winner lol) Ni hao ma? Wo hen hao. Ni ne? Wo shi meguoren. Ni shi naguoren? I always had a passion for languages and Chinese was the third language I ever learned. You? :D

I can reply to my own post? Cool lol!

Yes you can! :D Come on guys, don't be shy. Use your Chinese and practice it.

Ni hou Whitehouse. Wo3 jiao4 Nat. Ren2 shi4 ni3, wo3 hen3 gao1xing4. Wo3 shi4 ao4da4li4ya4 ren2. Wo xue2xi2 han4yu3 yi3jing1 liang4 ge4 yue le. Ni3 ne? Hi - I like the idea of practicing here... I see your original post was about a month ago. I hope I'm not too late. not sure yet wheter those tone numbers are more of a help or a hindrance.... particularly mine as they may not all be correct! Everyone else - please join in. Nat.

http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php This site is great for anyone with an interest in Chinese. It has the means of typing Pinyin with tones very easy. Nǐmen hǎo, Wǒ jiào Barry. Wǒ yě xiǎng yòng Pīnyīn jīngcháng. Rúguǒ wǒmen nǔlì wǒmende Hányǔ yīdìng gǎiliáng. You can also very easily identify the word, English or Chinese, and see the tones and the character.

Ni hou Barry. Wo Jiao Clint. I just started the course 2 days ago. How is it that you were able to type pinyin with the tone symbols? Xiexie

Hi Clint, There are several ways to type Pinyin with the tone marks shown. One is with http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php and another, one I would suggest, is "Pinyinput" just do a Google search and you will get a Pinyinput download. It is very easy to use. If you have the MDGB translator on one page and "word" on the other page, you can check the tones on the MDGB page then type them in "word" using the Pinyinput. Of course then you can copy and paste to this site or whatever you wish. Hope that helps.

Nihao, wo jiao Keyatta. Ni haoma? Wo hen hao, nine? Wo ye hen hao xiexie ni.

Why does no one use MS Word Ruby Text for converting chinese to include pin yin and tone marks. It seems to be a hidden secret LOL. Also available in Star Office too. However they are NOT cross compatable. You need to play around with the font-u-like best. BUT BUT remember to select the language as Chinese PRC otherwise strange results Inlcuding bopomofu from Taiwan is shown Howard

I didn't know about Ruby until just last semester while studying Chinese at Tsinghua University 清华大学. One of my professors would always use Ruby text to insert pinyin in our supplementary vocab word files. It's definitely a very good find and I have used it ever since then.

when can I start

Wow, I am most impressed with the professionalism of a few of you SPECIALISTS students!!!