User:L-native

The user page is still under construction.

I am here to study languages, mostly to improve my English, at the meanwhile to edit or fix some words and phrases. The User Page will be used for self-introduction and keeping important logs.

I just realize that I cannot handle pinyin correctly, not just due to the input methods. Besides, Chinese is subtly.

About Chinese Adjectives

 * It is better to put a 的(de) at the end of every of them, which is an explicit indication of being an adjective. Without 的(de) a word can function as a noun, or maybe implicitly an adverb.
 * In practice, it is complicated. For example: good,
 * He is good.   他是好的.
 * A good man.   一个好（的）人.
 * --Mr. L (talk/contribs) 18:19, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

About How to Input Pinyin Characters
Two simple solutions. --L-native (talk) 12:06, 28 October 2018 (UTC) -- Mr. L (Talk / Contrib) 09:55, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
 * You can use websites, e.g. https://www.mdbg.net/chinese/dictionary or Google Translation to type in Chinese once, then copy the pinyin and the Chinese characters and paste.
 * Using a extended keyboard layout. Here it is English (US, intl. with dead keys) layout with a compact standard English Keyboard (only the left part) under Linux/Ubuntu.
 * This layout of keyboard has four levels of keys, usually two levels with shift to switch. To use the third level, hold the right-alt. To use the fourth level, hold the right-alt and shift.
 * For pinyin, there are four tones for one vowel. For example for o, there are ō, ó, ǒ, ò.
 * ō: first tone with a macron,.
 * ó: second tone with a acute,.
 * ǒ: third tone with a caron (not a breve, which is round),.
 * ò: fourth tone with a grave,.
 * References:
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinyin#Tones
 * https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xkeyboard-config/tree/symbols/us
 * ...It is so complicated and easy to make mistakes, so I suggest you to use the first method.
 * Additionally there is User:L-native/Pinyin_with_tone_marks.