A lot of people around me don’t know about this though I believe that many of you probably already do. Nevertheless, for the benefit of those who don’t, I’ll write this anyway. I only learnt about it after joining this new company when a senior taught me while I was typing. This is only for Windows users though.
Most people on Windows OS probably use IME to type Japanese. How do you usually type Katakana in the middle of entering Hiragana and Kanji characters? For the more common characters, typing in Hiragana and hitting space would see it auto convert to Katakana, right? But what if you are entering some Katakana that is not recognised by the system?
You do have the option of selecting Katakana in the language bar but that would be too troublesome to change it just for entering some characters and switching it back. The trick is to just enter it in Hiragana and hitting F7 after that.
Sorry I wrote so much for something I could’ve done in 2 characters—F7.
Hey, we also learned that during the Japanese Business Course at ヤマサ! F8 (small size Katakana, F9 (wide size romaji), F10 (normal size romaji) can also be helpful.
What? Did I miss that class?
I hink you’re turning old and your memory gets bad 😛
wow i never knew all these!
!ow!! Great tips for me…I had no idea.. Thank you!
Yea. In Kyoto and Osaka, the flagdown rate is around RM20.00 and after the first 2km, the meter jumps around RM2.50 per 300m (if you realise how short a distance that is!). And for every 1min 50sec of waiting, it jumps another RM2.50. It might not be so bad if you’ve 4 people to share though.