I’m currently putting most of my effort into reading, speaking, and typing Japanese, but haven’t really done any writing practice. Do you find writing to be necessary in learning Japanese? Have any of you learned the language without writing practice? My goal is to be able to speak well and navigate in Japan during travels.
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no
Absolutely necessary? No. Helpful? Yes.
Not necessarily since everything is digital. You’d only need to write basically for business stuff. Or if you live in Japan and even THEN you barely write stuff. Focus on comprehension reading and speaking. Writing is probably the last thing you’ll ever do
If you live there normally you just need to write your address for paperwork and no one will stop you from taking a piece of paper with it written copying each kanji xD
So you don’t really need to learn how to write, and this will save you a ton of time, ask any japanese friend you got if they forget how to write kanji xD, not a really useful skill unless you need it for work.
You can just ask yourself how much do you need to write with pen and paper in your language in your daily life, you will probably reach the same answer. And yeah, living in Japan you can still make shopping list in your language so you don’t forget what you buy xD, you don’t need to write it in kanji, and you can always romaji it if you don’t know how to say it in your language xD
We have a thread on this right now that just was made yesterday, take a look at recent posts and you’ll find it.
It was helpful in the early stages of learning kanji (like maybe the first 100 kanji or so to get familiar with stroke order) but after that, it was basically a waste of time as I rarely write anything other than my name and address despite having lived in Japan for over 10 years. And in the very rare cases that I do need to write something specific, I just look up the kanji on my phone and copy it from there.
I’d at least recommend practicing writing the kana. I always do my workbook in kana. It really helps develope good stroke order and ending types for if you want to move on to writing common kanji later.
I personally use writing as a method to remember vocabulary and kanji. I remember them better if I write them.
Good for remembering how it looks
a lot of people are saying no but it found it a lot easier to remember certain kanji that may be a bit more complicated when i learned how to write them. you dont really have to write sentences or stories or anything but just download kanji practice apps and use a touch pen to practice your kanji that way. helped me quite a bit, especially with stroke order.
ymmv though, of course but if you have an extra 10 minutes, why not. even 3 years into learning on and off i occasionally forget how to write some hiragana lmfao
Not really, except for hiragana and just to get warmed up to kanji. I’m fluent at reading, not living in Japan I have never needed to handwrite anything. If you really need to write something you can type it and then copy the kanji.