kana paper

[crowfeather]

When I practice hiragana and katakana I try to write the strokes exactly where they belong in the square. It doesn't take more time to do it correctly

I am using graph paper, but the all the lines are the same density and thus a bit distracting

In my book the quadrant markings are lighter than the perimeter of the square.

Does anyone know of a site that has a free template for the kana paper with the quadrants ?

Thank you,
Barbara

[zengargoyle]

do a google search for 'genkoyoshi' and you might find something to your liking.

i have 4 PDFs that i found somewhere... can't find the original link in my bookmarks (sigh) with genkoyoshi of various sizes from big to small and one with space for furigana. i can put those up somewhere. but i find the horizontal and vertical quadrant lines a bit too dark, especially when making photocopies....

beginner
intermediate
advanced
furigana

if you can do Postscript on your machine (either with Ghostscript or a direct Postscript printer) then i wrote a rough genkoyoshi.ps file which lets you decide how big you want the squares to be and what linewidths/greyscale you want the border and quadrant lines to be.

[crowfeather]

ありがとう　　ございいむす !!
The PDF files you provided will work for me.
If in the future I decide that I want the quadrant makings a little lighter I can do that with my printer.
This site is wonderful!!

Barbara

[appleraja]

wut is furigana neways?

[keatonatron]

iz a kinda fruit ah think

[Harisenbon]

iz a kinda fruit ah think

Great... Green tea in the sinuses.

Crap... I'm turning into tony.

[mjmsisco]

furigana is ruby text above kanji so that you cn read it. (small kana above kanji)
i hope the thing about the fruit was a joke.

[Mike Cash]

appleraja wrote:
wut is furigana neways?

I used to feel sorry for old people for having to eventually die and miss out on all the stuff the younger generation is enjoying.

More and more I pity them less and less.

[Rounin T]

Amen to that -- and I'm still in my twenties!

[AJBryant]

Crap... I'm turning into tony.

<zombie voice> Join us! </zombie voice>


Tony

[clay]

High in vitamin C, but watch the sugar content!

Zen, would you mind us adding the PDFs to the downloads? I am sure they would be a big hit. If you don't mind, please write your name at the bottom.

[zengargoyle]

the only reason i didn't put them on TJP somewhere is that i found them out on the internet somewhere and i don't remember where. i've looked through the files and don't see any sort of copyright info or anything like that. (hopefully nobody would care that much about a page of squares...) so, putting them in the downloads is fine by me, but they're not really mine in the first place.

i managed to convert my Postscript version to a PDF file, and suprisingly it's 1/200th the size of the other PDFs.... and has much lighter lines.

genkoyoshi

i doubt anybody will have a problem with sharing of the advanced, intermediate, beginner and furigana PDFs. and/or i can make various sizes and layouts and make PDFs that are worry-free.