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If you write strokes wrong, the whole thing is wrong in Chinese 😅

I know over 9000 characters, Mandarin and Japanese. Watching the student writing 'higashi' broke my spine. When you learn the correct stroke order, you can write fast. Also, when you search the meaning for a character, you need to know the correct stroke count.

첫 장면 진짜 겁나 불편하다…

I grew up in Taiwan, speaking and writing Mandarin, I too felt violated while watching that, holy fuck

That cat is so ready to learn kanji now. 😂 😸

I would do as little strokes as possible just cus I find it better to write, easier to memorize and still able to read😭 I always start from the top. On this kanji I would start with the horizontal, then with the vertical line all the way down, then ㄴ in one stroke, the same with ㄱ, the vertical line in the middle and the lastly the two remaining strokes on the bottom.

How?? I'm confused 😂😂😂😂

shoot i write like that LMAO like i know the stroke order, my hand just doesnt wanna do it 😭

I think pronunciation should be emphasized more than characters that you’re more than likely not going to write 90% of the time.

東京，南京，西京（西安），北京😂

Who ever wrote this is a criminal

when I first learnt Japanese, I wrote characters very neatly, but wrong stroke order into Google dictionary, it didn't translate. Then I tried the rright order, then no matter how messy the letters, the dictionary still recognized. GG dict may have moved a long way since then so it's not a problem now.

Even the Chinese people says "wtf?"

I don't even follow stroke order but that is still incredibly cursed

ありがとうございました😊

As a chinese i agree

とっても良い動画でした、ありがとうございました😊

Thank you so much!

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I think it hanzi😂

筆畫順序很重要‼️

My high school japanese teacher would always say "left-to-right. Top-to-bottom".

Terry Pass

Now i understand why duolingo so insist me to do the order

Thank you! 😊

I'm not gonna say that learning stroke order is a bad thing, but personally, I think learning to write in general isn't worth the time investment. There's a lot of kanji that even Japanese people themselves have long forgotten how to write since leaving highschool. In our modern age of using cellphones and computers for pretty much everything we do, most text that you will ever come across will be digital. There is not a lot of situations where handwriting would be necessary. And even when it is, like filling out a document or something, you can always simply look up the characters on your phone and copy them. As long as you can read, you should be fine. Writing is just an extra hassle with little benefit.

Or I could just skip learning to write altogether because I can count on one hand the number of times I've used a pen to write much more than my signature in the past year. Most written communication is typed now.

Cue me thinking I was so smart for going "oh you totally gotta do the top horizontal stroke and then the big vertical one" and then... no, the box goes after the first horizontal stroke!?

ありがとうございました先生🇷🇺

It's not that difficult too, apart from a few exceptions the stroke order usually makes sense. Once you've learned a few kanji it's always the same.

Prease 😂

Very useful 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

This is very cool until you need to actually read the language. How are you supposed to know which of the two readings to use? Kanji are useless to know on their own, you need to read them in the context. For example, in the word 火燵 (こたつ), the 火 kanji is read as こ, not ひ or か, and the kotatsu itself has nothing to do with fire, as they're all electric, at least these days. The kun and on readings, and the meaning of the kanji are useless when you actually need to read. I'm not saying this app is useless, it's probably good to learn how to write, but in my opinion it's not really suitable for learning how to read, especially for a beginner. Instead, I recommend you pick up a PDF of a children's book in Japanese, and get to reading with a dictionary. As you get comfortable, increase the level to books made for teens, and finally, books for adults. You can make looking up in the dictionary easier if you use yomitan, which will explain the entire word instead of just a singular kanji. On your phone, you can use jidoujisho for the same experience

Where can I get the textbook please?

Shoudn't you be writing your kanji from left to right for the word fire?

Don’t understand a language. Why don’t you just…remember the language

Seeing “東“ being written, it broke my soul. The flow of it was so disgusting and unsatisfying.

As a Chinese woman who doesn't even speak Japanese, this hurt my soul a bit.

As a Chinese person, I felt that.

So what you're saying is, my strike game needs to be on point 😂

An important point is if you want to read handwritten text, where the writer rites quickly, more "fluidly", more cursive, you'll have an easier time reading it, if you know the stroke order of the characters. I can somewhat read kuzushiji as well, because of this knowledge.

Sorry but the spine should have been drawn first

I've noticed also, if I know the stroke order I have an easier time reading messy handwriting from other people

As a Chinese person watching that hurt me

I think for people who use roman alphabet this concept can be explained when we have a reaction to someone who writes D by doing rhe ) before the |, it looks wrong to us all! its just for every character in japanese

There's another really important benefit, and that's that it lets you more easily use kanji writing options for dictionaries. If you have a strong foundation of stroke orders then you can probably guess correctly the stroke order for an unknown kanji

気付かなかった！！🫤

Not only that. 東("higashi", east) represents the sun behind a tree. 日("hi", sun/day) + 木("ki", tree). The vertical stroke in the middle is not from 日, but from 木。

Im so grateful for your videos! Im one year into japanese so I'm learning a ton of kanji and your videos help! ありがとうございます! あなたはとても凄いせんせい!

To me it’s just a picture. If I drew a face and started with the eyes instead of the head shape and ears it wouldn’t be wrong or make the picture more difficult to be understood either way as the end product would be the same. If you saw the Roman alphabet as shapes as it isn’t your first language in reading terms, it wouldn’t matter if you drew the letters instead of writing them, or whether you drew the M starting from the left the right or the middle and it wouldn’t change how well, badly or understandable that letter would be after penning it. I could understand stroke order if you were using a calligraphy brush or trying to make it as beautiful as possible if it’s meant to be decorative or a love letter. Otherwise it’s just being fussy about a preference between options without any appreciable difference.