Using English in a Chinse Forum

Is it impolite to use English in a Chinese Forum?  I don't know how to type Chinese and often times, I try to use Google translator and copy and paste Chinese words into my response.  The only problem is Google doesn't translate sentences correctly and trying to fix the sentence takes forever.  I would love to learn how to type Chinese, any recommendation?  There are so many type of input methods, I just don't know which on to choose.   Look how Google translated my message above:是不禮貌的使用英語在中國的論壇？我不知道如何輸入中文和很多時候，我嘗試使用谷歌翻譯和複製並粘貼到我的回應中文字。唯一的問題是谷歌翻譯句子不正確，並試圖修復這句話永遠需要。我很想學習如何輸入中文，任何建議？有這麼多類型的輸入方法，我只是不知道該到選擇。 I guess it's not 100% bad.......

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kcah

I face kind of the same problem as you. I know how to type chinese... but the school computers don't support chinese input...

And some times i really want to make a remark or response..

so I am force to type in english...

is it polite... probably not...

as for how to type in chinese... there are so many ways... and it really depends on how you learn your chinese... i know pinyin... so i just use google pinyin input... or the windows built in input......

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@kcah, thanks for your response.  The problem is I don't know pinyin either, I only understand a little mandarin. I tried it before but 8/10 times my pinyin is wrong and by doing trial and error, it takes as much time as correcting Google Translate.  Maybe I should invest more time in learning pinyin.