Hi everybody!! Obligatory I’m on mobile and blah blah so sorry for formatting mistakes!!
I recently took up a Japanese into course at (unnamed) University. All was going well until Wednesday. So my Professor, who I will call Professor Sensee (PS for short), taught us the Hiragana alphabet using online resources which thought the calligraphy way of writing ‘ki’ and ‘shi’ so, naturally on my homework and all of my practice sheets that’s the way I wrote them. When I get my homework back, every ‘ki’ and ‘shi’ that I wrote had the connective loop section circled. We are allowed to do corrections to regain points so I corrected it by writing the same style neater because maybe it was too messy?? Anyway this keeps happening so I finally ask her what’s up. She tells me that writing the calligraphy style characters is wrong and that’s why she’s taking points away from me.
I have googled as much as possible on he subject (there isn’t much) but nothing Im finding is telling me this wrong, they’re just different. She tells me I have to write the disconnected forms of the characters because it’s closer to real Japanese handwriting which irks me because, with what I currently know, I’m not incorrect and she seems irrational with her grading decisions for something so arbitrary.
What should I say to PS because I actually find the connected forms much easier to write and I am able to write those much more neatly than the disjointed characters? Also if there’s a reason why those characters became disjointed over time, why didn’t ‘chi’ become disjointed when it is a mirror image of ‘shi’ with the same stroke order?
Thanks in advance fellow language learners :)
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