QQ

About a week ago, I downloaded and installed QQ. What ix QQ? QQ is a messenger program like MSN Messenger, Skype, or Yahoo Messenger. What is different about QQ? Almost all of the people use QQ are Chinese. I installed QQ because I thought it would help me learn more Chinese since almost everyone else who uses QQ is Chinese. I sent an e-mail to my Chinese friends after I installed QQ and I soon started receiving notices from friends that I had added them. One surprising thing about QQ is that some things are easier to do in QQ than in other programs. For example, if you want to send a picture of something that you can see on your computer, like a program you are working with, you can choose to copy it and just paste it into the window. Some friends share music with me by just sending a daily link.

Some things I don't like about QQ is that sometimes my whole keyboard freezes and I can't type anything. I need to restart my computer when that happens.  A couple of times my computer has just crashed.  QQ is the only program I have had that happen with since I started using Windows XP.

If you have QQ, my QQ number is 1094442675. Oh, in QQ, everyone has a number and not a name. That is another difficult thing about the programs. If you can't read people's Chinese names in Chinese characters (hanzi), you don't always know you are talking with. I think I have 35 friends in QQ, but I am only sure of about 12 of their names.

I have learned a little more Chinese since installing QQ, but most of the time, I just chat in English. I think it will help me learn Chinese, though, because my friends aer helping me more since I got QQ.