Actually, I have a question: Do any of the people here who know chinese, know of a sane way to enter things in chinese on the screen?

I would like to practice, and practicing through email could be useful.

>>1 My advice is to keep practicing it. Every once in a while, when you are thinking of what to say, try to figure out how you would say it in chinese. The same with the characters. Write stuff down. Verify your chinese whenever you have the chance, though, so you aren't teaching yourself incorrect usage, pronunciation, and characters.

I'd love an opportunity to practice, I'm foggier than I want to be on some of the details now. For example, I remember all sorts of words associated with writing, but forgot the word for the action itself. Problem was, I rarely had the chance to use it anymore in front of someone else.