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Is there a tip in reading and writing the differences to the following?

shi -　シ
tsu -　ツ

so -　ソ
n -　ン

I notice that the angles of the lines are very slightly different, but I don't know if this is giong to be so easy for me to "kaku to yomu"

They are pretty similar but as you can see shi is more horizontal and the tsu is more vertical. Also think of it being writting with a brush, like a kanji. The shi is written from the bottom stroking up, and tsu the opposite, from top to bottom. when written with a brush its very appearnt where the stroke began and ended... why its important to learn correct stroke order and direction. The way I remind myself of it is Tsu, being written downward and more vertical, is the character tsu points down towards your shoes "Tsu/Shoes". I do the same with So, as I poke a needle down to Sew... or whatever analogy works for you.

I basically did the same thing because I noticed the directions of the two lines. I actually made so like "so down" as in "slow down" :]

thanks for the help though!

シ and ツ, ソ and ン are indeed extremely similar and confusing.

Sometimes, if a Japanese child has bad handwriting, it's impossible to read and understand what they have written!! Usually, (thankfully) you can tell from context which one is used.

PlusTheEffect-san's suggestions are extremely helpful! Every stroke of ツ 'Tsu" is written from TOP to Bottom so the lines are much more "downward" while シ "Shi" is more "sideways".