Huge thanks for this work and for sharing it! I was just thinking how to overcome difficulties with memorizing kanji after lv35, and this writing practice absolutely fills in the gap!
I do not print out the pdfs, just put them on a smartphone screen and scribble kanji in a notebook designed for Chinese practice It just has bigger cells and a distinct grid to orient the kanji correctly and keep its proportions right. I am writing half of the line for every kanji I study at a given day and it brings me the desired effect: support WK, but not override the SRS.
One question: is it possible at all to change the font in PDFs to more brush-like? You see, now all the strokes look similar. Unless you know yourself the direction of the stroke and also how it thickens/thins out/goes into barb/goes into sharp tail, it is not possible to guess based on the current sheets. This is a really minor thing, for now I am just checking the stroke order vocab where I am not sure…but it will just add a cherry to the cake
Very cool!! Another minor thing to consider for a future update, is that Japanese schoolkids tend to practice writing Kanji top to bottom, right to left. This is also how most books are written. It works great either way, but maybe nice for some added authenticity
Oh my god. Thankyou sooo much for making something like this. You have my permanent admiration. I was looking for something like this forever and now I have found it. Thankyou again. I will recommend it to my friend as she too learns japanese.
@_rinse@sakaijin It’s true that kanji are somewhat biased towards right-handers, just like almost every writing system, but that doesn’t mean left-handers can’t learn kanji either. Here’s a page (in Chinese, so don’t worry if very little makes sense) containing samples from three calligraphers who wrote with their left hands. Their work is beautiful:
I mean, I might be biased in my assessment because I know they’re writing with their left hands, so I might think I’m seeing differences when there are none, but at the very least, for the very first sample (on brown paper), there’s literally no way you’d know that was written with someone’s left hand. It’s absolutely perfect and matches all the usual calligraphy conventions. For the other two samples, I’m not as familiar with such calligraphy styles, so I think I should reserve judgement. They’re nicely written in any case. By the way, none of these calligraphers were left-handers: they all lost use of their right hands due to injury or illness. If they could do it, so can you! がんばってね！
Are you using Safari browser? In Safari on Mac or iPhone/iPad, you have to allow opening popup… If that’s not a way can you try on another browser?
(It’s an issue currently in the website, but I’ll work on it soon)
It just has bigger cells and a distinct grid to orient the kanji correctly and keep its proportions right. I am writing half of the line for every kanji I study at a given day and it brings me the desired effect: support WK, but not override the SRS.
