Playbooks
Genkōyōshi Practice Paper Explained
Japanese squared manuscript paper, one character per box. Why the grid fixes handwriting proportion, how to use it correctly, and when to stop needing it.
Lawrence Arya··10 min
Essays
Handwriting or Typing Japanese: What Each Builds
Typing asks you to recognise a candidate; handwriting asks you to produce a character. Why fluent typists cannot write, and the ten minutes that fixes it.
Lawrence Arya··10 min
Playbooks
Keeping a Japanese Handwriting Journal
Five minutes and three sentences a day turns practice into output, exposes the words drills never cover, and leaves a record that shows real improvement.
Lawrence Arya··10 min
Playbooks
The best way to practise kanji handwriting
Mass copying is the old way, and the slow one. Here is what actually builds kanji handwriting, in less time.
Lawrence Arya··4 min
Essays
Do you have to write kanji by hand to learn it?
You can read Japanese without writing kanji by hand. Whether you should is a different, more useful question.
Lawrence Arya··4 min