If you want to input Chinese Pinyin and Chinese characters in your computer, now, I will strongly recommend "Google Chinese Pinyin Input Method" which launched by Google. After installed, to shift your input method to Google Pinyin. Then just wag your fingers to type Chinese characters by Pinyin....

If you got interested in the language, understand the history and culture, and perhaps read the classics, the study of traditional characters. In this way, you can read all the books the way back to the days of Confucius, although changes of grammar as you go. The characters traditionally used...