Question for searching languages in Chinese
Hello,

to get more immersed in Chinese, I put Italki in this language. What I don't get is this: if I want to look for a teacher selecting the language, and I want to look for, say, indonesian, do I have to scroll it down until I see it? how do you search? in English of course if I start to write "ind" it will appear at once, but with Chinese, where there is a sort of alphabetical order (which in reality in chinese is not) how can it be done? the strange thing is that if If I select "come from" after choosing a language, there I can search using "PinYin", but now when I have to find a teacher in a language.

In other instances, like, say, a list of people selected for a public examination, with hundreds of names, are they listed by PinYin?

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Question for searching languages in Chinese
Hello,

to get more immersed in Chinese, I put Italki in this language. What I don't get is this: if I want to look for a teacher selecting the language, and I want to look for, say, indonesian, do I have to scroll it down until I see it? how do you search? in English of course if I start to write "ind" it will appear at once, but with Chinese, where there is a sort of alphabetical order (which in reality in chinese is not) how can it be done? the strange thing is that if If I select "come from" after choosing a language, there I can search using "PinYin", but now when I have to find a teacher in a language.

In other instances, like, say, a list of people selected for a public examination, with hundreds of names, are they listed by PinYin?

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I search languages by Chinese characters, by  just one or two characters of the language's name. I just found that even you put Italki into Chinese, the order of the language is first ranked by the most popular languages and then ranked by English alphabetiacal order, not by "pinyin" . But in China, names are usually listed by Pinyin.  For example, my family name is Kong. So my student ID is usually ranked in the middle of my class.  When the teacher call the roll  one by one in order, and when he read the family names begin with "H" or" J" in Pingyin, I know that the teacher is going to call my name.

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As far as I know, I can't tell how the lauguages are sorted in the Chinese version of italki, but you can filter by typing in Chinese characters of the lauguages(type in 牙 to find 葡萄牙语, 西班牙语...). For the places, they are seemly sorted by their English names, and you also filter by typing in letters(treated as English, not Pinyin).
If a big list of names are sorted, it's a common option to do it by Pinyin, if not required to be sorted by something else(id numbers, scores).

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非常感谢你的帮助！

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I think in the Chinese version the languages are arranged in this order: most commonly used or learned ones, the others are in the order of Roman alphabetic order, but it is not according to the initials of the language names in Pinyin, but the English names of them.

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