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RingoGaSuki said:
VGPolyglot said:

I also must add that learning the stroke oreder is essential. It makes memorizing easier and teaches the proper way to draw a character.

For those not interested in calligraphy, I honestly wouldn't stress stroke order for individual characters that much. If you learn the radicals properly, you will know their stroke order and thereby be able to write large complicated characters correctly for the most part, just remember the golden rule "Top to bottom, left to right" and it's easy. I didn't pay any attention to stroke order before taking a calligraphy class at my Japanese high school. Each to their own though, whatever works for you is best :)

I'm with Polyglot, even if you don't write much learning stroke order definitely helps cement the kanji in your mind. Knowing the radical's stroke order makes learning new big kanji lightning if it's just made up of 3/4 radicals you already know and know how to write.



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