Hi, I've been learning chinese these last six months. So far I've mostly used the system font in all apps and devices, so when I switch fonts I really struggle to recognize characters, even very familiar ones, but it's probably a very good exercise I think.
Anyways, just like with dislexia (I'm not dislexic) maybe the font can make a difference when learning new words. There's a reddit post that says so but eugh
Btw, I'm still not interested (right now) in practicing manually writing characters, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone yelled at me for not doing so.
Well I'm following the HelloChinese course which everyone reccomended, and it has a liiitle bit of writing exercises but it's negligible. I'm close to finish the main course and can read interesting-ish short stories.
I wanted to first be able to read and hear chinese fluently enough so I can start "immersing" with stories and eventually real immersing with social media/videos/television (cuz I'm not travelling to actual China anywhen soon sadly).
I knew I eventually would have to start practicing handwriting but right now feels better to no longer suffer when encountering a 就 in a text or audio than being able to elegantly write that character in the correct stroke order. Millions of illiterate people spoke chinese for millenia.
"I think someone having the literacy of a feudal peasant is cool and normal in 21st century China"
Get your orientalist bullshit out of here. You people only use this argument against Chinese and never any other language, when the writing system is integral to how the language and culture works more so than any other living language.