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Originally Posted by Harold
It depends. Teacher writing during a lecture? Not really legible. A lot of the artistic kanji (calligraphy) is hard to read too. For example:
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武
道
The shape looks the same, but I would have never guessed what they were without knowing what they were beforehand.
Usually most people's handwriting is legible enough to read, but those with bad handwriting can really give learners like us a really hard time...
Here are plenty of examples of handwriting
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So, it's similar to Roman letters, then? That's extremely comforting. Mine are turning out almost as legible as most of those examples. Thanks very much!
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Originally Posted by Hatredcopter
Every kanji has a certain stroke order. If you write kanji using the right stroke order, they'll turn out fine. Once you practice learning kanji and see the patterns in stroke order, you'll be able to write all of them without much trouble. It just takes time and a bit of practice. If you aren't taking any proper Japanese classes, try searching the internet for animated pictures or videos of kanji being written.
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I know the stroke orders for all of the kanji I know (I know about 70). But my English penmanship is bad enough, and my kanji weren't turning out like computer generated fonts. From the examples that were posted by Harold, I think I'm on the right track.