Japanology - KU Leuven

 We have to learn to write the rest of the hiragana rows by ourselves as homework. Here is a chart with the stroke order for the remaining ones! It is important to know that letters may look different digitally and handwritten. This has to do with fonts. Sometimes, the 3rd line in き (ki) for example, is connected to the curve on the bottom. However, our books show a version where the curve and slanted line are disconnected. Know that both are correct. It's a matter of preference, but Takeyama-sensei writes letters like this disconnected, so lets stick to that! Extra... for anyone interested: Exercises related to learning to write hiragana provide MANY new words for us to learn. However, without any sort of context, determining their definition proves to be tricky.. Therefore, I decided to only list the new words with meanings that seemed more likely to be given to us as beginners, which are also more commonly used in everyday life. That I felt sure about, at least. Words with just ...

Today we learned to write some of the first of the 46 hiragana that exist, as well as some vocabulary. It is important to note that strokes can end with a small line - which looks as if you lifted a brush off of the page (fig.1), abruptly (fig.2), or curve as in figure 3. We covered these letters, and this is the stroke order: *keep the way strokes end and their direction in mind. We need to know the order of the letters in the alphabet, from right to left. There are many memory aids we can use for this. Come up with something that works for you. Here are two I made; "Arima Kana Said To Not Hinder Mean Yakuza Rioters When Night (comes)." *Arima Kana is a character from Oshi no Ko. "All (the) Kids Sleep Tonight, Never Having (had the) Mochi Yuna Ran (away) With." *Sounds like an actual scene! I also figured the memory aid for ぬ they presented during the lesson was useful, since it looks a lot like め (me). Remember the NOOdle being 'sloppier' and forming the c...