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I don't think the article solved the mystery as the Chinese are not at all unfamiliar with the Latin alphabet. Chinese students learn the Latin alphabet and us
by mungoman 12y ago
I don't think the article solved the mystery as the Chinese are not at all unfamiliar with the Latin alphabet.
Chinese students learn the Latin alphabet and use them to spell words before learning Chinese characters. Chinese keyboards only consist of Latin characters. To enter a Chinese character, you type its pronunciation and then select the desired character from a on-screen menu.
- rahimnathwani 12y ago"To enter a Chinese character, you type its pronunciation and then select the desired character from a on-screen menu." Not everyone uses a phonetic typing method. Many people use wubi (五笔) which is based on the structure of the characters. Although this still uses a QWERTY keyboard, I suspect it doesn't help make people more familiar with the roman letters (in terms of memory, or mapping letters to English sounds).