Why are do I have to learn stroke order?

When you will be familar with Japanese script, you will start wrting with early stage of short hand by linking lines and dots. If your stroke order is incorrect, no body would understand your writing. Native Japanese all share the common stroke order, which would result in the same sort of short hand. This is why Japanese people can read each other's short hand. All of Hiragana are short hand of Kanji. For example, is a short had of Kanji. The first stroke starts from the left end of horizontal line and curve down, then a flick. Do you know why there is a flick here? This is the mark of brush use. In the old days, peole wrote letters with brush and black ink. Wen you use a brush, you have to move your brush from and ending of a stroke to a start of the next stroke. A flick naturally happens this moment. Now, the second stroke is the virtical line from top to bottom. The left half of Hiragana and Kanji are roughtly the same aren' t they? Then theshape in Kanji is short handed as a brief slant line of Hiragana. If you writequickly, the flick tends to be long and even connected to the start of the virtical line. If your stroke order is incorrect, which is virtical line first and horizontal line second, you may link the ending of virtical line and the start of horizontal line, but nobody understands your original short hand, because this so unecpected way of writing. Let's talk about the other Hiragana, which often be rather similar to in your writing. The original Kanji of is . The stroke order between these two are the same: start with the horizontal line then short virtical line and the last stroke is the virtical line on the very left. As long as you keep this stroke order, you can link the first stroke to the second brief line. Even the middle short line can be linked to the last long virtical line. As long as you keep the correct stroke order, there is no chance that short handandare mixed up. It is actually easier to distinguish if you write in short hand. I hope you have understood why you have to know the stroke order.