Pick a category and write its words out in full, the way you would on a form, a card or a note. Every word in the vocabulary is here, in 27 categories.
New to writing Japanese? Do writing practice first.Writing practice teaches hiragana, katakana and kanji one character at a time, with the stroke order. This page assumes you can already form the characters, and practises putting them together.
Choose a word, or press Next word under the boxes and one is picked for you at random from the category.
The whole word sits in a row of boxes, one character to a box. First trace it with the guide on. Then switch the guide off and write it again from memory. When you press Check it, the model is laid over your writing in pink, so you can see where you drifted before you move on.
A character on its own gets the whole square. In a word it has to share, and the parts that shrink are not the parts a beginner expects. Writing 学校 teaches you something that writing 学 and 校 separately does not.