みなさん、こんにちは、僕は２０２３年３月から日本語の勉強をし始めた、僕は自分で日本語を勉強しています、去年７月に「JLPT N5」の試験を合格しました、今「N4」の勉強中です、僕は２ヶ月前「Wani Kani」を登録しました、毎日漢字の練習をしているので僕は漢字を見て意味と発音を分かるようになりました、僕のレベルはまだ４だけど今まで上達したことがかんじますでも漢字を書くのは難しいです、僕はかんたんな漢字しか書けません、漢字を書けることげ必要ですか、どうしたら漢字を書けるようになりますか
by kudoshinichi-8211
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Firstly, learn about 。
It depends on what you’re planning to do with Japanese.
I would advise learning how to write kanji by hand, at least up to N3-ish level. You don’t know when you might need to take notes or something, but be without an electronic device. If you were going to Japan for school, some schools/programs may ban electronics in the classroom, for example.
For the most part, however, it’s a good skill to have, but arguably it might not be all that relevant to you and your reasons for studying Japanese. If you wanted to use Japanese for reading manga, why would you need to write them by hand?
You can learn to hand-write kanji if it’s enjoyable for you or you feel it’s beneficial to you. It’s absolutely not necessary though.
Ringotan & [Skritter.com](http://Skritter.com) provide utilities to help you memorize and also learn stroke order for kanji. You can work on muscle memory there for stroke order and then take it to pen and paper and practice it for real after you feel you have them memorized.
自分自身の日本語を勉強してる理由に依拠するから、自分だけがこの質問を答えられるよ
I’ve probably written by hand in Japanese or otherwise like once or twice a year since getting my JLPT1 like 50 years ago, even working as a translator/localizer my whole life and living on this godforsaken island… It just never really comes up… And now that you kids have moved from simple word processors to those little pop-tart phones you can do everything on… All I had was index cards and a pack of ball-point pens, dag-nabbit…
Anyway, hopefully your grammar will get better, and the run-on sentence thing is an easy fix in any language I reckon… and if you want to get better at writing kanji by hand, just learn the rules of stroke order and then write each one thousands of times. This will obviously bleed over into reading proficiency as well.
２０２３年だけでも大きく上達しました、今年もっと上手くなるでしょう！頑張ってください！
writing kanji is useless nowadays imho, to a point that even native japanese people admit they can’t do that
I know it’s a bit off topic, but try to use 僕 less. You’re using it in almost every sentence, sometimes more than once.
Also: Try to use proper punctuation, i.e. not just commas (、), but also periods (。).
Learning to write kanji helps recognising them. But if you don’t have problems recognising them and you don’t need to write kanji, then I would say no.
Speaking as a native traditional Chinese user who have forgotten how to write quite some advanced Chinese characters
Handwriting kanji is GREAT for learning, let me tell you that. But will you ever write anything in real life? No
(unless you’re into some cultural activities, calligraphy, academia, etc)
Like some others have mentioned, writing kanji isn’t really necessary for most. If you need it for work or enjoy it, then maybe RTK would be a better medium as it does have additional focus on stroke order.
The one thing I’ve noticed writing helps with hugely is in identifying the handwriting of others. I picked up Japanese 6 months ago, this time with Wanikani and the progress is inmensely faster (with any SRS really). I’m level 10 but kept struggling with this for kanji I supposedly know by heart… If you do decide to skip writing, like I am, you can palliate the handwriting reading problem by getting a 3rd party WK client. On iOS, for example, Tsurukame let’s you make it so that the kanji show up in various alternating handwritten fonts across reviews.
結局、必要なのは手で漢字を書けることより、「手書き漢字の形を分かる」ことだと思う。それは私だけの意見かもね。
I see a lot of creators on YT say it’s a waste of time to practice writing kanji using pen and paper, but I personally think it’s not that simple. For me it was a good practice, since my visual memory is pretty weak, and I’m really not a visual learner, so doing it the kinestetic way helped a lot especially in the beginning. But even now all the kanji I know well anough were those that I paracticed writing enough times (in sentences and isolated). But I see how for some people it might be something totally useless and a time-waste. It’s hard to know until you give it a try.
私は１年から日本語を勉強しました。これは本当に圧倒的だ！
If you want to pass the higher JLPT level, you don’t need to know how to write. Some people might also tell you that you don’t need to know how to write at all.
But my two cents is, if you want to know a language well, you should know how to write. It’s a skill everyone has. And it comes up every day more than one might think, especially in really important things, like filling forms/contracts. (Not to mention that a lot of research shows that handwriting is really good for helping your brain when learning; taking notes by typing doesn’t have the same benefits). If anything, knowing how to write is part of being literate, and you should do it as an homage to the fact that you are fortunate enough to be literate, lol.