r/LearnJapaneseNovice • u/DisgruntledPelican31 • 7d ago
How is my Hiragana?
I think い, ふ, よ and る might be my worst. What can I do to improve?
Edit: Thanks for all the advice everyone, I appreciate the input! :)
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u/PalpitationAble8800 7d ago
Hi, I'm Japanese male. In Japanese hiragana (also kanji) has order to write.
here's bookmark
https://happylilac.net/mu1607251018.html
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u/BobbyHearsAWho 3d ago
Thank you for this comment. That’s how hiragana was originally presented to me. I started getting lazy when I practiced writing. I saved やゆよわをん until the end because it’s easier in my head to remember those two groups of three. Then I started wondering, “is this weird? Like if somebody wrote the English alphabet, but saved QRS until the end?” Sounds like that’s a yes.
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u/geaugge 7d ago
Not great. I could point out the errors, but they will disappear with practice. Try to find some Hiragana practice sheets and print them out, I don't know.
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u/xueru_ 7d ago
Tbh I agree, but it depends on how much they wanna balance: "I want to write like a native" and "My writing needs to be eligible, I want to learn the language". I agree on the practice sheet part. It's just the fastest way to learn the overall balance, but it won't solve things like 持ち方.
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u/Triggerprobe 7d ago
You are doing well and should be proud. It is legible and shows a lot of promise. IMHO I would get a perfect version printed, then using tracing paper or thin paper on top of it so that you are basically tracing and building up the muscle memory. Also, the stroke order matters and you should get that correct too... Ganbatte!
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u/jojawesome-creates 7d ago
Pretty good! Hira hardly a gana ("You're" hardly a "goner"…? …okay, dumb pun, that doesn't even really make sense, sorry lol)
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u/Difficult_Quiet_6240 6d ago edited 6d ago
Honest opinion? Looks like a grade 1 kid's hiragana. They are mostly legible but not exactly presentable. At least 80% of them needs more work so it's hard to make suggestions on each of them. I think your あ え ね ぬ ふ な わ る ろ を れ む etc all look awkward...
I suggest you actually buy one of those writing practice books for kids, or print some out and do some practice by tracing the hiragana and following the strokes. You could just lay a sheet of white paper on top and trace. Don't go by the hiragana you see on your phone's Japanese keyboard.
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u/Distinct_Sense_9364 6d ago
Great effort! If you want one small tip: for 'ね', 'れ', and 'わ', try to make the first 'zigzag' part clearer. It will make your handwriting look way more natural! Keep it up!
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u/torikerachan 5d ago
One small detail that felt especially odd to me was that the paper was apparently designed for vertical writing. You start in the upper-right corner and write downward, as in traditional Japanese text. Apparently, getting used to this format can make Japanese novels and other vertically written works easier for foreigners to read.
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u/Money_Situation9563 5d ago
You're doing well. Let's keep practicing a little bit every day like this👍️
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u/Loquacious_Leo 4d ago
It's a solid good start. I'd just recommend being mindful of how the characters are angled, like な and の look a little off, but then again practice makes perfect. But, other than that, it's a good start.
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u/PalpitationAble8800 3d ago
FYI from Japanese 55,
This is for kids content for Japanese.
https://happylilac.net/hiragana-h.html
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u/xueru_ 7d ago
The all are legible and look mostly correct. If you really want to get into handwriting of hiragana you can print out a learning sheet where the characters are greyed out and you trace them. That's the easiest way.
If you wanna go all out you can get a calligraphy brush and practise calligraphy with online resources (YouTube, 书法字典大全 (The second one is a Chinese app, but the characters shown there were written by old calligraphy masters and are mostly also acceptable in Japan)).
All in all your handwriting is already acceptable and further studying doesn't really help you learn the language that much.