a missionary had converted chinese characters for a long time years ago. (Matteo Ricci, 1552-1610) he is french. he came to china for 1583. he has published <xiziqiji>《西字奇迹》in beijing for 1605

I dont know .chinese is my mother tongue. i can not remember the time i learned it . i know it is difficult to learn a second language, though.

pinyin is the most important step to learn chinese !when i was a child i began to learn pinyin.maybe you think it is hard to learn ,but i think you will enjoy it if you work hard!chinese is a wonderful culture!enjoy it and you will have fun~! good luck!!

Hello, The following is a converter from Chinese characters to pinyin: http://www.purpleculture.net/Chinese-Character-Pinyin-Converter-Online.asp You copy paste or type a Chinese character and it is converted into pinyin with numerical indication of the tone. If you type a Chinese character by changing your display language to Chinese , you will have first to use romanized alphabet ( pinyin) to enter the Chinese character anyways ,so you will have to know the pinyin version and you wouldn't need the converter in this case. The only way at the moment is to copy/paste a text in Chinese characters into the converter space. What regards "pinyin" It is easy to learn, but I found it hard at first to differentiate between the tones.

if you wanna learn chinese,you should learn pinyin or zhuyin first,but in my opinion pinyin is easier as it has something in common with english,such as the letters and sometimes the pronunciation.So it's not that hard. i am sure you will make it! GOOD LUCK!!