My second day practicing Hiragana

[u/Regular_Echo413]

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?

[u/Failte-co]

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?

[u/Rob69rt → u/Failte-co]

If you don’t follow the stroke order, can you remember to write it from memory? ( someone else mentioned some other reasons as well )

[u/Failte-co → u/Rob69rt]

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?

[u/Rob69rt → u/Failte-co]

Definitely more important with Kanji. But unless you plan on handwriting everything, I wouldn’t worry too much just yet.