>suddenly realise they forgot how to write Kanji. I am also guilty of this – even though I read a lot of Chinese and Japanese content in my everyday life, I struggle to write Chinese characters. What we notice is that while we can definitely read and recognise the characters we are able to write, the converse is certainly not true.

when written in ink by brush the order of strokes seems to follow very natural flow, yet when it is taught using pencil it looks much less natural.