Writing Japanese

I'd always thought that learning Japanese would be so easy, since I have strong foundations in English and Chinese. Apparently not. Right now I'm practising writing Japanese characters, and I must say it's a pain. There's one particular character (nu) which strongly resembles the Chinese character "nu", and I'm pretty sure that's where it's derived from in the first place. Anyway, I'm quite familiar with writing it the Chinese way, but adjusting it slightly so that it becomes Japanese was way harder than it seemed. It's like I'm purposely corrupting my own handwriting to something I barely recognize.

I can't believe I'm complaining about Japanese writing being too hard though. You'd think that I'd have more trouble in writing Chinese, since there are many more strokes and whatever. My problem with less strokes is that.... everything looks the same. See with Chinese, even if it's dreadfully complicated, at least they are distinct enough. Alright, there are characters which look almost identical in Chinese as well.... but it's not like I'm trying to learn Chinese.

I then get to that stage where I no longer recognize what I am writing, and my mind just goes blank for a while and refuses to recognize anything. After the basic characters, there are also these really annoying variations, where you add two small strokes on top of a character to change its consonant sound. At this point I'm just like "kill me now", but it turns out you can also add a small circle on top of the character to change its sound again! Isn't that exciting?

...That's a rhetorical question, but if you tried answering it... THE ANSWER IS NO.

After that I pretty much curl in a corner because studying is too hard. I think I prefer watching anime instead.