What is the best Windows phonetic-based input method (IME) for someone learning Mandarin Chinese?
I am using Microsoft pinyin “new experience" input. I like to type the pinyin to find the right hanzi character, but I'm not happy with this method because it does not even distinguish tones (shī, shì, shǐ). Is there something that lets me type something like shi4?

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What is the best Windows phonetic-based input method (IME) for someone learning Mandarin Chinese?
I am using Microsoft pinyin “new experience" input.  I like to type the pinyin to find the right hanzi character, but I'm not happy with this method because it does not even distinguish tones (shī, shì, shǐ).    Is there something that lets me type something like shi4?

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http://www.unispim.com/software/
This one will helps.
For example, when typing "wo", you can click "shift+1 2 3 4" to help pick the tone you want.

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PinyinJoe does that. But I think it's not really required. If you add a 2nd character there is then usually just a few choices. Some ambiguity will increase also the learn effect.

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I myself prefer Sougou 搜狗拼音输入法。
It's very clever.

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sì 4/shí10

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My son is learning pinyin in primary school. Maybe, I can help you about that. And, I am from Beijing China, I can teach Chinese mandarin, I am learning English, and I am look for a language partner.

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