chinese jeyboard

You: how do you type characters on the keyboard?

Stranger: by pinyin

Stranger: the prononciation of the character

You: so I'm going to have to memorize another alphabet?

Stranger: nope

Stranger: just like

Stranger: hello in chinese pronounces nihao

Stranger: and when you type

Stranger: you also type nihao

Stranger: and the character 你好 appears

You: 好

Stranger: ?

You: http://www.pinyinput.com/

https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-pinyin-chart.php

You: trying to use

Stranger: haha yes

You: 貓

You: cat?

Stranger: yes

You: 狗仔

Stranger: lol what is this?

You: puppy?

Stranger: nope dog is 狗

Stranger: 狗仔 means paparazzi