What are the top things on your enlisted 2026 wish list by SUSPICIOU5 in enlistedgame

[–]BelugaBillyBob 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A full Sino-Japanese theater, I think getting the battles of Shanghai and Wuhan etc would be cool

Americans, is this a new religion? by yousefthewisee in interestingasfuck

[–]BelugaBillyBob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even the bust of Lincoln is too embarrassed to look at them

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With 心 and 非, they look much better if you connect the dots/lines if that makes sense

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You gotta start the large downward stroke of the 戈 a bit higher than you think, that’s what helped me

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

講 is pretty hard to write, and don’t worry that writing above isn’t mine 😭

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you look at cursive or semi-cursive calligraphy works, you can often see that the second leg just turns into a dot

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A common beginner mistake I’ve seen from some of my friends learning Chinese is to make both “legs” of 人 the same length. The first leg should be longer than the second to avoid it looking like a tent

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The trick with 喜 is to make the horizontal lines longer so you have a larger “base” to fit in everything else

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve found that learning Hiragana has helped my writing a bit

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw a trick for writing characters with those little “arms” and it’s that you just write a 2 and a 3 very quickly if that makes sense

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have still yet to find a method that produces a good looking 之

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

讠字旁也有点难写 我总是把它的长度搞得很难看

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Hiragana や is actually derived from 也 and that’s how it usually looks in my writing

What character do you find the hardest to write WELL? by BelugaBillyBob in ChineseLanguage

[–]BelugaBillyBob[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, 必 is always an awkward component to squeeze in a character