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  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I'd say you need more experience in just writing in general but I'm not exactly sure how much time you've had with the language. I don't want to come off as nitpicky or needlessly mean about anything either. Learning the language is a process in itself and I can guarantee that anything I'm saying now is something I'd say to myself back when I started. It reminds me of an relatively early childhood penmanship. It's legible but I feel like the radicals are oddly spaced in a few characters. It's a good starting point but there are some points I think that can use further improvement.

    With 海 the radical mizu/sanzui seems a bit too far, similar with 怖, I had a small bit of confusion where I missed the radical kokoro and was only seeing 布 which was a bit confusing. With 映, it reads more like 日央 as well which I'd say you can rectify with just adjusting the size of 日 since it shouldn't be full sized anyway.

    Your hiragana and katakana look alright, though the ン looks more like ソ to me and the trick to it is where you start the second stroke, with ン you start at the bottom and kinda swipe towards the left whereas with ソ you start in the right corner and draw curved to the bottom left.

    Finally I just have a little question in regards to your stroke order because it feels a bit off, like with 美しい looks like you have the center line as a single line ending in a curve whereas the way to look at it would be a combination of ⺷ and 大, so you'd end at stroke 6 for the first part and then just write 大 under it. Here you can look at the stroke order easily enough with the main image and further down on the page you have a step by step stroke order as well.

      • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        My recognition is far superior to my writing, I spent about a month a few months ago shoring things up and I reached 4th grade before I sorta burned out for a while. My handwriting is absolute garbage but I see improvements in the stuff I've written over the years to being more fluid even if a native speaker would still my writing sucks. I know utilizing Japanese sources is basically impossible when starting, but the Japanese kanji dictionary I linked before has a lot of good resources even for a visual aspect like stroke order. One other thing I'd sorta emphasize while you're still relatively fresh to things is picking up radicals, even a little bit helps a bunch because suddenly you're looking at the characters in a different light and once you learn a bunch of components it's more like putting things together rather than remembering this giant character.

        A super simple example is 木 meaning tree which then turns into 林 which is like a small bunch of trees like you'd see around property lines in more rural areas in America/a grove if that makes more sense, then you have 森 which is forest. 晴れ (clear weather) is 日 (sun) and 青 (blue) which is relatively simple to remember by thinking sunny and blue skies.