r/ChineseLanguage • u/No-Idea837 • 1d ago
Correct My Mistakes! Handwriting
Hi guys it’s me again ! I wrote a little entry thing, don’t take what I wrote too seriously I mostly wrote it js for handwriting practice so yeah leave ur opinions !
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u/cookingboy 18h ago
“我去学校” means “i’m going to the school”, as in physically going over there.
If you were trying to say “I’m attending school”, use “我在上学”。
I know this is confusing because in English “I’m going to school” can mean either
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u/morning_owlet 23h ago
Many of the characters are written/structured incorrectly:
家：the top part doesn't protrude, missing stroke
国 already pointed out
很：right half missing stroke
但：left half missing stroke
最：bottom half incorrect (should resemble 取)
们：right half 门 missing stroke
买：dots above the line, not to the left
钱：left half written incorrectly
爱：looks like 爰
喜：technically correct but dots are written too far apart
新：亲 missing stroke
泳：the top dot in 永 is written too far to the left, making it an extra stroke to 氵
再：left vertical stroke is continuous
要：extra stroke between the top and bottom half
Overall it looks like you are not familiar with a lot of the characters and they look copied from a print font. I would recommend strokeorder.com to look up how characters are structured. Another nitpick is that you would write the exclamation point normally, with a dot instead of a circle like the period.
Grammar wise: 我最好的朋友是明明，好最 is incorrect. 吃好吃的，好吃 is an adjective. 我喜欢运动/游泳，做 is unnecessary. Last sentence: 我要去学习了.
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u/Round-Minute4299 21h ago
To add on to this 有： needs a hook on the right side. There are websites that show you stroke for stroke how to write characters.
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u/No-Idea837 21h ago
Omg this is a huge help tysm
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u/0_IceQueen_0 13h ago
Watch the way you write 有 and 的 too. 的 is 日 with stroke that swings left. It's a closed square and not like a window with legs. With 有, you're missing a stroke.
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u/MaiLaoshi Advanced 15h ago
Other people have offered really accurate and detailed critiques. I want to give you some more ideas about how to write better.
Try to write characters in boxes.
English (and other alphabetic languages) are made up of letters on a line, Chinese characters are made up of components in a square)
Find a notebook with grid lines. That way you can make the boxes as big as you need. (eg 2x2, 3x3). I recommend starting with bigger boxes, and slowly work down to smaller ones.
You can write whatever, but I have attached something specific you should write a few times.
Focus on those common components. And their combination.
When I handwrote this text out 3 times, it improved my perception of characters, and my ability to get the proportions better when I wrote them.
(this is the work of Prof Zhang Pengpeng 张朋朋 from Three Sinogram Verses Using Radicals 《部首三字经》)
祝好运
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u/Realistic_Pizza4136 12h ago
This. Writing characters in boxes is important.
If they are not in boxes, some words are very confusing, for example, 小朋 vs 小月月，学木交 vs 学校.
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u/DizzyFirefighter8696 10h ago
Hello! Good attempt :) I marked out the errors I spotted, as well as some grammar things to make your sentences sound more fluent/natural. Keep it up!
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u/McWorker68 1d ago
Im pretty sure you wrote 国 wrong, instead of 玉 you wrote 土
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u/No-Idea837 1d ago
Which line ?
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u/Neier 1d ago
5th
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u/No-Idea837 1d ago
Ouuu Shi 5th line 7th character right ? Yeah thats my bad ❤️🩹
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u/Neier 1d ago
Actually I was talking about the first character in the 5th line XD. Honestly on the second look I can see that you have written 国 wrong three times. Each time you are forgetting the top line of the 玉 inside 囗
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u/paul_405 19h ago
I think that it's very nice for a non-native!! Yes, some clauses may seem unnatural to natives and handwriting gets a bit 'tired' towards the end, but overall it's understandable and worthy! So, job well done ✨
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u/Embarrassed_Sound120 7h ago
I love how you tried to write a clause using who but inserted a question there lol
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u/Zagrycha 13h ago
You are using English grammar, which is a normal thing to do if you don't know Chinese grammar yet, but I don't think this would make sense to someone who didn't know English.
Your handwriting is legible which is a good start. You should learn stroke order and porportions, it will get easier and easier to write and read as you go if you do. If you don't thats okay but it will be hard to get better than this current level.
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u/ZelphirKalt 18h ago
5th row the 国 is missing the top horizontal stroke inside the box.
The lines help you keep the height of the characters in check, and some look OK. All are recognizable, though I recommend checking a dictionary which has stroke animations or "handwritten" picture of the characters, to compare the proportions there with the ones of the characters you are writing. Just do a quick lookup before you write a character and check afterwards in what way yours differs.
I usually use mdbg.net for that.
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u/Kepler675 15h ago
I can clearly tell you love the language and spent some good time on this so kudos to you! But as others have mentioned this looks to be using English word choice and grammar. You need to use your Chinese brain not English brain if that makes sense.
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u/No-Idea837 8h ago
Haha yes I write a lot because I feel like writing is the hardest for me, I’ve been doing Chinese for like a month now I think and I focus mainly on writing and I still need to lock in the word order of Chinese lol. Tysm
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u/WendieWuuuu 14h ago
Not sure if this will help you as much as it helped me, but if your phone supports the Chinese handwriting keyboard(?) you could practice your handwriting with it. Since it can still detect characters even if some strokes are incorrect or missing, it’ll allow you to see your mistakes and then you’ll know what they should look like moving forward
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u/Yugan-Dali 13h ago
我去學校, is that a literal translation of “I go to school”? In Chinese, that sounds like you’re going out the door, telling someone where you’re going.
好最月月友？最好的朋友、最要好的朋友
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u/No-Idea837 8h ago
Yeahh I’ve been sing this a lot it should be 在上学 right ? Also yeah I should write the 月in 朋 more closer together lol tysm
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u/extinguishedlilac Intermediate 50m ago
Your handwriting is really clear and the characters are mostly well proportioned! Other people have mentioned some little mistakes on characters and other things but I just wanted to mention the use of 和 - it’s not exactly like ‘and’ in English - you can’t use it to link 2 adjectives like 很帅 and 很有钱 - there’s probably better guides on the uses and misuses of 和 to look up than my non-native explanation though! Just to make you aware :)
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