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December 14, 2011 at 10:37 am #22468
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,
-ZachDecember 14, 2011 at 11:24 am #22469I 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.
- This reply was modified 13 years ago by Hatt0ri.
December 14, 2011 at 2:33 pm #22472Ah, 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!
December 14, 2011 at 4:02 pm #22473After some searching, I found something online: http://japanese-lesson.com/characters/hiragana/hiragana_writing.html
Cool resource!
December 15, 2011 at 11:45 am #22548Yes, 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! :)
January 12, 2012 at 12:15 pm #24329I used the Kana de manga books for the traces, after that I just used graph paper. That’s how I learned Hiragana and Katakana.
January 13, 2012 at 12:34 am #24338Hiroshi 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…January 13, 2012 at 11:35 am #24355Another 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!
January 13, 2012 at 3:33 pm #24359Nihongo 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)
January 19, 2012 at 11:35 am #24712Or… you just buy cheap graph paper? It’s what I use, exactly the same, each big box is split into four.
January 19, 2012 at 12:02 pm #24719I 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.
January 23, 2012 at 7:27 pm #25291I 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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