i been studying without writing. Mostly want to be able to read and listen. Is it ok for not… - Feed Post by YuenAng123
i been studying without writing. Mostly want to be able to read and listen. Is it ok for not practice writing ?
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No clue. I'm studying mainly to be able to read light novels and visual novels so I'm kinda neglecting writing by hand, I can write with the keyboard but that is a heavily assisted method.
But I can say for sure that my reading comprehension and knowledge of the language have increased significantly. More so in the past few months as I started reading a visual novel in Japanese with some software assistance (ITHVNR and Rikaisama).
So, can you skip the writing part of learning and still learn to read?
Sure. But, will you learn the language better if you practice writing as well? Definitely.
I think it mostly depends on your goals and what you are capable of dealing with in order to learn. There is no general method that works for everyone, so try everything you find and decide for yourself.
In my experience, learning to write kanji has helped me differentiate between them. One example would be that 持(have) and 待(wait) looked very similar, but it helped me to tell them apart when I learned 行(go), as the radical on the left side of 行 and 待 were the same, and the both involve movement, or lack thereof.
Also writing isn't just about remembering the characters and writing them down, but it is also about sentence construction. You can read 学校に行きます and 学校へ行きます both as "(I will) go to school.", but it is only when you have to write or say it that you have to decide which to use. You need to have a better knowledge of Japanese to write in comparison to reading. This knowledge would easily increase your ability to understand what you read.
You can get away with not being able to write or speak, but in the scope of the amount time you are going to spend learning to read/understand Japanese it isn't that much more time to learn to read/speak and be better at watching anime with subtitles, or reading light novels. (There is an added bonus of a better experiance for you if you ever decided to take a trip to Japan.)
Both above are plenty right. Course you can learn just to read and understand, so to speak and maybe write with a keyboard. But i really recommend the use of the writing. If you are pretty familiar and have a easy perception of kanji, then you really don't need to care about it. But if you want to learn kanji easily, have a better comprehension of it and even read written Japanese, you'll sure need to write it. There are a lot of kanjis and even hiragana letters that are quite different from the ones you see in the computer when handwritten, for example さ and き and alike kanjis such as 開, 閉, 聞, 門 and 間. The kanji 心 is really different when handwritten, so, what i mean is that it isn't "completely definitively obligatorily needed", but if you want a better involvement with the language and some capacities you'll not have if you negligence your write, you really should give it some effort. Even if your goal isn't write and you'll never write in your entire life, you should give it a little attention. That's just what i think, though. You don't have to hear what i say :D
As for me, before i learn Japanese i already know the Chinese language. Some kanji are the same as Chinese word. The bad thing of this is sometime i memorize the kanji with Chinese pronunciation. You would understand me if you are at the same situation.- Yea..and another advantage of learned chinese before japanese is that i can differentiate those alike kanjis. Since i did a lot of writing in chinese for 15 years i think.
i memorize hiragana and katakana by just writing them over and over- I memorize kanji, meaning, reading and words by writing them (My calligraphy is a crap but the kanjis are right written). I'm a person that just can really learn something if i write it, so i think i can't just refuse to write ┐(︶▽︶)┌
- If you already know Chinese then there probably isn't much benefit to practicing writing Japanese. I guess practicing writing ひらがな and カタカナ would speed up your reading, but in your case you would be perfectly fine without picking up a pencil. Learning how to type in Japanese, and writing sentences that way would help the most. I hear https://lang-8.com is pretty useful. Regardless with whether you do that or not, good luck with your studies.
