KANA/KANJI Lesson Two - Introducing Kanji!

[Bloody Rosen Knight]

this reinds me of chinese characters for numbers  

[Starry Starry Fright]

Bloody Rosen Knight

this reinds me of chinese characters for numbers

As it should! All Japanese kanji are "borrowed" from Chinese characters.  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

oh really? okay. Thanks I will keep that up in mind.  

[Flying_Fish1287]

thank you sooo much! i had no idea where to begin, so you just kind of helped. a lot. heart  

[ZiTao Huang]

I've been practicing my Katakana recently and it's hard getting the symbols perfectly.  

[Starry Starry Fright]

XEverlasting NightmareX

I've been practicing my Katakana recently and it's hard getting the symbols perfectly.

If it all possible, hunt down a native Japanese speaker (well, don't actually storm out into the streets with a Japanese-hunting harpoon, but you get the idea...) and show them samples of your writing. They will quickly be able to tell you which "imperfect" characters are legible, and which are not. Japanese does have different fonts and sometimes slight flourishes or variations are totally fine, and other times it can make it hard to read. The best way to tell where you stand is to, as I say, find a native speaker if possible.  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

I could ask my grandma for help but she would try to her best i think she might remember or not.  

[i EaT SPo0nS]

wow...jyuu down 8990 to go  

[Deity Psymon]

Not sure how practical it would be, but since stroke order is important as well, maybe some sort of stroke order chart for the 漢字 could be added?  

[Silverfin]

Deity Psymon

Not sure how practical it would be, but since stroke order is important as well, maybe some sort of stroke order chart for the 漢字 could be added?

Easiest thing to do is probably look it up on jisho.org. They have really clear diagrams depicting stroke order and other finer points of writing.
For example: 漢字  

[Deity Psymon]

Silverfin

Deity Psymon

Not sure how practical it would be, but since stroke order is important as well, maybe some sort of stroke order chart for the 漢字 could be added?

Easiest thing to do is probably look it up on jisho.org. They have really clear diagrams depicting stroke order and other finer points of writing.
For example: 漢字

I see. Never knew of that site, thanks. Lol, I suppose you camp these threads xD  

[Acobjum]

http://www.guromanga.com/read/666/rei-mikamoto-reiko-the-zombie-shop-vol-7/page:43 Tomodachi on this page is written with half kanji half kana yet on the next page, http://www.guromanga.com/read/666/rei-mikamoto-reiko-the-zombie-shop-vol-7/page:44#manga-page tomodachi is written with both kanji. Why is that?  

[Silverfin]

Acobjum

http://www.guromanga.com/read/666/rei-mikamoto-reiko-the-zombie-shop-vol-7/page:43 Tomodachi on this page is written with half kanji half kana yet on the next page, http://www.guromanga.com/read/666/rei-mikamoto-reiko-the-zombie-shop-vol-7/page:44#manga-page tomodachi is written with both kanji. Why is that?

There are some words that are okay to write in either kana or kanji. "-tachi 達", the suffix meaning "all" or "group," and the second character in "tomodachi 友達," is one of them. It's a bit more common to write it in kana, but a significant portion of it is also written in kanji.
Also, in manga, the author will also use kanji or kana to affect the tone of a character's speech - more kanji would mean more mature or formal, while more kana is more casual.  

[Nana Shinu Ai]

arigato gozaimasu for post that. will be able to practice writing that.  

[XxTwisted SanityxX]

ねえみんな!