How To Guess A Kanji's Stroke Order Guide. Although I’m not the type who believes you have to learn to write kanji by hand (who writes by hand nowadays?) There are plenty of people out there who have to do just that for one reason or another. Maybe your teacher is making you… maybe you’re just interested in writing kanji. Whatever. I’m writing this guide for you so that you don’t have to spend a lot of time fussing around with stroke order. There are general rules and guidelines that you can follow to learn the stroke order of nearly any kanji out there, whether you’ve seen it before or not.
If you learn these rules you won’t have to waste time thinking about which stroke comes next – that way you can focus on the more important things. Kanji Stroke Order Rules There are a set of general rules that you can learn to know the stroke order of 99% of all the kanji out there. Top To Bottom, Left To Right This is a big one.When writing kanji, you always want to start your stroke on the left side of the line. Horizontal Goes First. JGram - The Japanese Grammar database. Learn Japanese | Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese. Upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/AMB_Japanese_Verbs.pdf.
The Te Form Song | Gakuu - Learn Real Japanese. The Te-Form Song. What now?? A good question. This is a handy little mnemonic taught to me by my own teacher way back when I was still a beginning student of Japanese. It helped me immensely, so now I’m passing it on to you! Watch the above video first. When you’re starting out in Japanese it can be tough to remember how verbs change, so learn this little song and you can always sing it inside your head when you get stuck.
読んで！ Okay, so here’s the song. い • ち • り → って に • び • み → んで き → いて ぎ → いで し → して くる → きて する → して 例外 → 行って So what’s all that about い、ち and り exactly? Take 使います (つかいます – to use). So, we have: 使い. This shows us that the verb conjugates to use って. What about the rest of the line, ち and り. 勝ちます (かちます – to win) → 勝って やります (やります – to do) → やって How about the line に、び and み?
死にます (しにます – to die) → 死んで 遊びます (あそびます – to play) → 遊んで 飲みます (のみます – to drink) → 飲んで Got that? The first 5 lines of the song are for regular verbs. します to do 来ます to come 行きます to go Happy singing! (P.S.