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Chinese is pretty hard.. There's like 5000 characters or something Oo'

lol try " you need to know 5000 characters to read a fairytale for a kindergarten"

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Stroke order is just the "correct" way of writing the characters, such as when writing a horizontal line, you always start from left to right. Plus, it help you learn how many strokes a character contains, which is helpful when using a chinese-english dictionary.

Oh, but I'm a totally senseless person. Surely, I'm lost in almost every possible way. I'd NEVER knew you should draw a line from left to right. Thank you! I find Japanese dictionaries very difficult on search, so I'll try looking harder for stroke order so that it becomes simpler for writing and searching!

I forgot to mention that stroke order is also important for writing cursive in Chinese, though because I'm not that good at Chinese, it's hard for me to read; it's like scribble lol. However, the only cursive I would write is if the character contained 口(kou).

Like I said in a previous post, do you consider that you know a language if you can speak it or you know a language if you can also write and read it?

If thats the case then I can read, write and speak fluently 4 languages and I plan on learning Chinese, Japanese and Russian in the next 3 years..

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Unh, why do people care so much about the stroke order? Sometimes I and my classmates do the stroke order different a bit, but the result is the same. I really don't get it 😕

I learned it was because of calligraphy. I was told to try writing with a brush --- I would then learn to appreciate stroke order. The character is supposed to look neater, more correct, with proper stoke order (using a brush). I've never tried; I'm not good at characters as it is, I don't need a brush mutilating my "writing".

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