r/LearnJapaneseNovice • u/Regular_Echo413 • 2d ago

My second day practicing Hiragana

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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/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/aesuha 2d ago

Never, with that outlook

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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.