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Hi there. I’ve thrown a bunch of suggestions at the bounty button at the bottom of the textfugu page, but it may be some time before they get acted upon. That’s okay for the most part, but I’d like to ask about what seems to be an important omission. I can’t find anywhere that it shows you how to write the hiragana – you know, the brush order, is it left to right etc. A link to a video would be great to include.
Ahh on the downloads page there is a cheat sheet.
http://www.textfugu.com/downloads/worksheets/hiragana-stroke-order.pdf
However it might help to see animated stroke orders, which aren’t too hard to find online.
Excellent, Sleepy. Thanks for that. I’m okay personally, but I wanted the textfugu to be complete, and I couldn’t imagine how such an important point would be overlooked. BTW, I hope that your expression in your profile photo isn’t the effect of studying Japanese! ;-)
How about Wikipedia? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(kana)
There’s a little kana table at the right-hand side so you can click to the page you want to see :)Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese Grammar has animated stroke order for Hiragana and Katakana.
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar
Not sure how to make something a link (haven’t used any HTML since MySpace used it) but it’s there, just look for the chapter on Hiragana and click on a character.
EDIT I posted this and it came out as a link. Who knew it was that easy lol? :P
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I actually really like how Human Japanese approaches thinking about writing Hiragana. They show you stroke order when you click on the characters, and they give you hints when to help remember how to make the kana look really nice. The free preview has hiragana, but if you want katakana you’d have to purchase a version (I have the iPhone version and like it a lot). Below is a link to the preview:
http://humanjapanese.com/preview/HumanJapanese.aspxI also use these sheets for just practicing writing:
http://japanese-lesson.com/characters/hiragana/hiragana_writing.htmlIs there not a link to that Hiragana stroke-order sheet in the lessons? There was in MY day! :P
Is it just me or is the stroke order for 「や」 wrong on the TextFugu sheet?
Yah, the 1 and the 3 are switched. There’s a few others that aren’t in handwriting-form, too, and that ふ and り are just confusing.
Although my reply is on topic, it’s not quite on subject.
I just finished Season 1 (it was super effective). I like Anki, but have never found recall devices like Anki (iKnow) etc. to be enough. I can’t fault Koichi in any respect to his approach. My brain just likes it when I make shapes with a pen.
I’ve managed to really get a grip on Hiragana within a week or so.. I previously tried with iKnow/Rosetta-Stone which just failed hard at every aspect to teach me Hiragana and Japanese in general.
I’ve touched on Radicals (from the Kanji section) and am actually excited to start! However I will be writing them down just a couple of times so I can get the feel and shape of them engrained in the sensory part of my memory as well.Just to add.. I find stroke order another hurdle.. Again, I hardly ever hand-write English anymore.. I doubt I would be doing so with Hiragana / Kanji etc. If I can get my hand to make them look correct, stroke order is a part I think is useless to remember (although will probably pick up later in the game). I would not fault anyone for writing an ‘N’ backwards so long as it is legible.
Joel/Gen X: Did there maybe used to be alternate stroke orders for certain characters? I learned stroke order through Kana de Manga (which seems to be accurate), but when I try playing My Japanese Coach, it makes me write some of the kana in a different order.
Reviews online have said that the stroke order in the game is wrong, so I was wondering where these kinds of mistakes come from. I can understand if some resources believe stroke order doesn’t matter, but it seems strange that so many say it does matter, but then give the wrong stroke order. Does anyone know where the errors come from?
I’ve no idea where the mistakes in My Japanese Coach come from, but one of the confusing things is that for a few of the characters, it actually teaches the correct stroke order, but then expects you to use a different order when you write it later. It’s got some issues.
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