brought japanese macbook home when we went to japan so i can type japanese on certain occasions that may come up. and believe it or not, when i google things, results are different even tho i type exact same thing! altho, could be very similar when you google "american" things.

anyways, some people ask me "how do you type japanese" or "what does keyboard look like" so here it is. pretty much same as american one but has few extra keys at the bottom (see both side of space bar?) to change the input from english to japanese and obviously there's japanese characters on some keys.

if you care to see some example of how to type japanese, go to cont. reading.

so if i wanna type "park" in japanese, i have to type "kouen" on the keyboard (that is "park" in japanese). as i type that, the computer automatically changes those "kouen" letters to 4 hiragana characters on the screen. notice that underline on the characters? that means i can change those hiragana characters to kanji characters if i wanted to (which you usually do).

to change to kanji characters, you hit space bar. then those drop down menu will come up and usually in order which you will most likely to use, this time it's the top highlighted one for the "park."

ok, then what's all the other ones on the drop down menu? well, they also pronounce exactly as "kouen" but different meaning. like in english, "too," "to," "two" pronounce the same but has different meaning, right? it's same thing and you can always tell which one you are talking about in context.

did you guys kinda get the idea now or did i confuse you guys? :)