how are you guys practicing handwriting? here's how i'm doing it right now:



take an erasable pen in an eye-catching colour and write:

• pronunciation of unknown words (hiragana for japanese, katakana for chinese-derived pronunciation)
• if i know a synonym in japanese, the meaning of unknown words in kanji or “fake kanji words”. ex. if this word means “not full”, even if “not full” isn’t a real japanese word i write it anyway.
• if i can write a single kanji hint to the meaning (“this is an abbreviation that’s missing x kanji”) i write that instead.
• when i can’t do either of those i write in the meaning (in esperanto)

it’s really hard for me because in order to write so small i have to get 2cm away from the paper, but i can do it so i’m doing it. next time i read this book i’ll just erase the writing i don’t need anymore. it takes a long time (for me) but if i just do a little every day it’ll be good i think. my problem with handwriting is i don’t ever need to handwrite (not even the grocery list) so then i don’t practice since there’s no point. but if i get to the point where i can write class notes and stuff in hiragana/katakana/kanji fast, i’ll be handwriting a lot… i think.

when i do this so far it’s been late at night using my phone (yomiwa) as a dictionary, but that dictionary sucks so it’s really frustrating… i need to use sanseido on my phone or something…