Hiragana Practice

What do you use to write Hiragana letters, im using a mechanical pencil and a notebook and i think im already starting to form bad handwriting habits

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  1. You don’t need anything special. A mechanical pencil and some paper with reasonably-sized squares (normal graph paper or print your own) is perfectly fine. Or you can find preprinted hiragana worksheets on the Internet, [like here](http://japanese-lesson.com/characters/hiragana/hiragana_writing.html).

    Also, [here’s a video of a native Japanese speaker writing the hiragana with a normal pen](https://youtu.be/wD3FJgij79c).

    The things to pay attention to are:

    – stroke order (this is important);
    – whether each stroke ends with a stop, a jump (a little flick), or a sweep; and
    – relative proportions.

    Again, to repeat: You do not need a special writing instrument or paper for this. You just need to follow good examples of handwritten hiragana.

    edit: format

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