Do you guys learn cursive style kanji? I go to this one online kanji dictionary that shows the stroke order and then it shows the cursive style.　http://yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.n...enDocument
It looks crazy.

eroichigo Wrote:Do you guys learn cursive style kanji? I go to this one online kanji dictionary that shows the stroke order and then it shows the cursive style.　http://yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.n...enDocument
It looks crazy.

I learned to read extremely cursive classical Japanese in a study group I participated in at my university. It has made reading blurry photocopies/scans/faxes somewhat easier, but I've never run into any people who significantly short-hand their kanji in writing.

Example page from an early session of my study group:

I have the grass-script version and a very cursive version as part of my answer in anki now purely for fun, I've never seen a Japanese person able to write anything in grass script aside from their name (oh and teachers of Japanese or hobbiests). It's really fun to see the shorthand.

My girlfriend holds a high ranking in 書道 so she can do grass script etc. At some point I need to get her to instruct me.

How do you change it to have cursive font in Anki?

Erubey Wrote:How do you change it to have cursive font in Anki?

There are probably some cursive fonts out there, but they'll never be accurate. The forms change depending on the previous & following characters.

Thanks for letting me know. Oh well, I'll save it for some other day.

eroichigo Wrote:Do you guys learn cursive style kanji? I go to this one online kanji dictionary that shows the stroke order and then it shows the cursive style.　http://yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.n...enDocument
It looks crazy.

I don't think that's cursive you're seeing, just an example of handwriting. Most Japanese who I've seen write stuff on paper or whiteboards write like that.

I had another thread not too long ago about how should I be writing and what I basically came up with was that unless I'm doing calligraphy with large characters and a large brush (not brush pen) you basically just try to write it like the middle character, but you don't need all the exact features (the bumps at the end of a horizontal line, etc), just the lines. What happens is that as you write a lot you'll end up writing more like the right side (assuming your stroke order is correct) just because you get more efficient (I was going to say lazy). At the same time, you probably shouldn't intentionally start writing sloppy kanji. That's based on advice from other people on this site.