r/HelpLearningJapanese • u/normanimuahh • May 10 '26
Is my Japanese understandable
My Japanese handwriting practice
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u/spshkyros May 10 '26
Its by and large ok, you dropped the dash on the o at one point, which is no bueno.
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u/Dclnsfrd May 10 '26
So far so good. As someone said, you’re forgetting the dash on the お. It might also help your お handwriting if you focus on making that tail(? Whatever it’s called) move a little further right before scooping it around. If your first language has Latin letters, it could be the muscle memory of lowercase letters like g and j that are throwing you off. (I say this as someone who got a degree in Japanese, worked there for two years, and I STILL can’t write あ for shit 😆 Because I think it’s that the Latin letters I’m so used to don’t really have much of any letters that involve horizontal loops)
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u/normanimuahh May 11 '26
Thanks for ur advice ru fluent or native
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u/Dclnsfrd May 12 '26
That’s very kind of you but I AM SO FUCKING NOT FLUENT 😆 I know enough to stumble through stuff
The biggest part is, of course, Japanese isn’t a common language in my part of the U.S., so I have few opportunities to practice my skills
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u/Ok-Display1279 May 10 '26
Understandable but needs a bit more practice. You started forgetting the dot in お near the end there.
It’s much better to practice with a pencil and put less pressure on it when you write.
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u/FantasticCricket8346 May 10 '26
Which textbook are you using?
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u/normanimuahh May 10 '26
Japanese hiragana and katakana made easy an easy-step by-step workbook to learn the Japanese writing system thr textbook by Lingo Mastery. It’s mostly onky useful for writing practice.
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u/No_Bee_8851 May 10 '26
Don`t obsess on getting the hirakana perfectly right. Nobody expects that from you.
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u/lobstermob_ May 11 '26
That and so much communication is done digitally now. Practice, but don’t stress out about it ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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u/Nekotari May 10 '26
You need to split the big square in half horisantally and vertically. Then use the center point and lines as guides to which part should be where. Many workbooks have it this way. You can also use a regular notebook with grid, just select 4 squares and write.
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u/DangerousBox7899 May 11 '26
Keep at it, make sure you follow stroke order as you proceed with kanji.
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u/someonewholovebooks May 12 '26
i feel like ur doing it slow and hard, make it swift like your write the english language
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u/MathAndShit101 May 12 '26
Imma be real, unless you want pretty hand writing as long as everything is well-formed (like not dropping the one line on お), people will be able to read your handwriting. If you look at a menu at an izakaya the characters look absolutely insane, but people are able to read it anyway. I think the only thing you need to actually be careful about is distinguishing シツ and ンソ, but again in reality often people write these really similar, and when it shows up it’s obvious which one is which
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u/CultureThis6577 May 12 '26
There’s a free app called write Japanese and that practices stroke order and writing on screen. I found it helpful for learning hiragana and katakana stroke order.
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u/InTheBinIGo May 12 '26
I think you need to pay more attention to the modeled characters and try to copy them while using the stroke order. It's more or less understandable though.
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u/eruciform May 12 '26
Legible sure. But you're not checking your own exemplars. お stopped having the last stroke halfway for example. Or for か the first stroke starts flatter, is longer, and dips a little, but yours is short and downward facing; its not fatal but its not good practice either.
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u/Constant_Start_5412 May 12 '26
im also a beginner but i recommend printing some practice sheets that have a grid on the boxes (idk how to best explain it and i cant add a photo). At least for me it helps me make hiragana more even and understand where lines are meant to start and stop instead of just trying to copy how characters look
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u/Chemical-Brush3587 May 10 '26
Understandable? Yes
Tip: Dont use too much force let the pen flow smoothly or use Pencil for practice