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Hey all–
With Christmas coming around, I have a bunch of people asking me what I want. One thing that I thought would be useful would be practice sheets of paper for handwriting kana, but I can’t find anything online. You know, the kind of paper kids in elementary school use to learn to write letters/symbols? They have the correct way of writing that can be traced over a few times and then correctly spaced practice lines (or I’d assume squares for kana).
Does anyone know where I could send people to buy this sort of thing?
Thanks,
-ZachI don’t know if there are just pads with kana on sale, but they can buy you a book for learning kana (those books usually have practice pages inside).
Something like this (kanji included):
http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Writing-Kanji-Kana-Book/dp/0804816859/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1323890250&sr=1-2Or just kana:
http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Learn-Hiragana-Kodanshas-Childrens/dp/0870117092/ref=pd_sim_b_4http://www.amazon.com/Lets-Learn-Katakana-Japanese-Writing/dp/087011719X/ref=pd_sim_b_1
Edit: Customer reviews say there are trace sheets in these two.
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Hatt0ri.
Ah, thank you Hattori and Zach! Such a great idea! I’ve been printing some sheets to help with writing from random websites, but idk, for some odd reason I think I’d like it in a more well put-together book; yeah I’m weird like that lol. Will definitely look into those links!
After some searching, I found something online: http://japanese-lesson.com/characters/hiragana/hiragana_writing.html
Cool resource!
Yes, I like that resource, I’ve been using that as practice for awhile….the only ones that I’ve found so far that are different are ‘ki’ and ‘sa’. I asked about this in a different thread and found out handwritten kana looks different than computer font kana. /face-palm
Since I’m such a beginner, I didn’t want to confuse myself with these little differences just quite yet, but overall it was very helpful with learning the strokes.
Thanks Zach! :)
I used the Kana de manga books for the traces, after that I just used graph paper. That’s how I learned Hiragana and Katakana.
Hiroshi and Sakura used to have this wonderful learning sheets they made for their kids.
The stroke order set for hiragana and katakana are no longer available on the happyfu-fu.com page, but you still can get them through google cache ;-)
Hiragana
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Kizru96iYtwJ:happyfu-fu.com/hiroshiandsakura/ls_hiragana_stroke.html
Katakana
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pVrmLpxXBJcJ:happyfu-fu.com/hiroshiandsakura/ls_katakana_stroke.htmlI was searching for the words “hiroshi and sakura stroke order” and picked the cached part.
They also have a blog with some stuff on it
http://oyabakaseikatsujutsu.blog76.fc2.com/
Unfortunately, I don’t understand anything except for the pictures…Another option is here:
http://www.archive.org/details/Japanese-Language-Writing-Practice-Kanji-Katakana-Hiragana
http://www.archive.org/details/333-Kanji-in-a-Day
http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-21f-01-kana-spring-2010/I’ve only just begun, so I’m not sure how helpful these will be – but every bit of practice is helpful!
Nihongo o Narau has some nice, varied types of practice paper you can download. (Hiragana, Katakana, Grade One Kanji, and two different sizes of blank paper)
Or… you just buy cheap graph paper? It’s what I use, exactly the same, each big box is split into four.
I use this: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/genkoyoushi/
When I was learning kana I used this: http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/chinesequarter/It’s cool because it is possible to change the size of a grid to match your preferences. I used to write much bigger characters before than I do now.
I use something called a buddha board (I think this is what you want) it’s good if you just want to practice committing a sentence to memory, but you would have to wait for for the water to dry to write more. http://www.buddhaboard.com/
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