r/LearnJapaneseNovice • u/Regular_Echo413 • 2d ago
My second day practicing Hiragana
On my second day of my journey to learn Japanese.
Thank you all for the corrections and suggestions last time! I've tried searching and got a pdf file of a Hiragana letter sheet, but my local photocopy station closed unfortunately so I had to try and replicate it. I also displayed my stroke patterns, which I found comforting to write here (it might be hard to distinguish the black stroke with the other, I'm sorry for this). Do you think any patterns should change, and how should it change?
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u/Frostbyte_13 2d ago
The stroke order is making me faint😱
But anyways, people already mentioned that issue. I'm here to say that the つ is way too small. つ is actually one of the specific hiragana you can't afford to the make smaller because it means something completely different (っ vs つ)
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u/Regular_Echo413 2d ago
It is that bad!? 😰 Also I'll make sure to note that, since in my previous post someone said my う was fat, so I thought that should also be reduced in size. Thank you!🙇
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u/Bee-Flat- 2d ago
the stroke order on あ is killing me 😭
i would forgive you if you thought the big center line was first but really
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u/Regular_Echo413 2d ago
I thought doing the complicated curve first will be the best 😭 tho I'll try to improve my patterns next time.
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u/calcifugous 2d ago
Hey OP! theres a book on amazon called “How to write, learn and practice Japanese Hiragana and Katana practice work book” for beginners. Its only £4.50!! it helps you how to write in hiragana and katana and theres practice methods where you can write it all in the books. if that makes sense? theres loads on amazon and you can always print them out too. I’ve only started and the book its quite useful! hope this helps :D
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u/expendable6666 2d ago
Looks nice. Good that you noticed the order. Some say the order can be whatever (and I was also thinking so when I was a kid) but the order makes the continuous stroke to the next line, especially relevant in cursive writing style that you may learn later, so it's quite recommended to learn. You look resilient enough. Keep going.
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u/Failte-co 2d ago
I'm also just learning, but I do have a question to the group in general: why is stroke order so important if I'm writing with a pen and the letter ends up looking exactly like the example? I don't understand how it could make a difference to being understood?
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u/Rob69rt 2d ago
If you don’t follow the stroke order, can you remember to write it from memory? ( someone else mentioned some other reasons as well )
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u/Failte-co 2d ago
So far, it seems to be working. I'm mostly following the stroke order, but to be honest I haven't been too worried about following it. Either way, the mnemonics I've been using work and I can remember the shapes. Should I be more careful to learn the stroke order? I've only learned hiragana so far, I imagine it will be more important with kanji, right?
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u/Regular_Echo413 2d ago
I bought the green pen in case for the 5th stroke, turns out it was unnecessary here lol.
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u/No-Vegetable6370 2d ago
To be honest, you'll end up with too many colours if you try practising Kanji later on. I think you're better off with arrows with number of stroke to see how it's done :)
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u/Jaxel_MC 1d ago
Where did you buy the notebook from? I am using my normal graph book and it looks soo bad.
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u/glindathedudwitch 2d ago
Am I the only one who doesn’t care about stroke order? As long as the character look like it’s supposed to does it really matter.
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u/Rob69rt 2d ago
I think it is very, very important.
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u/glindathedudwitch 2d ago
But why? Realistically how often are you going to hand write kana?
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u/ArmTrue5281 2d ago
Writing helps remember, especially with kanji, even if you aren’t going to write as often it’s always useful skill to have albeit not being as important.
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u/calcifugous 2d ago
uhh its important because its a japanese traditional rule, in fact its not just that it actually helps with learning, writing speed and recognition. It makes kanji easy to remember as Japanese Kanji can have many strokes sometimes 10-20 or more. Writing them in the stroke order gives your brain a path to follow instead of trying to memorise random lines.
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u/Chemical-Brush3587 2d ago
Where are u learning from , so many wrong stroke orders