Postby Sableriyo » July 17th, 2010 3:06 am
Considering how many practice sheet files they must already have, yes it would be time consuming. But the order you make the strokes in does make a difference in the final appearance of the kanji. When I first started to learn, I think the workbook I had to work with had a similar set up of boxs, but it also broke the kanji down into strokes step by step so you knew which stroke to do first and so on. I'm having some trouble remembering the stroke order now though since its been a few years.
At the very least I think they should include stroke order with the lower lesson levels. Once you get more used to kanji I think you would be able to make the proper assumptions on what order to do the strokes in based on the radicals that the kanji are composed of.