日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 4

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Is there a trick to distinguishing between ツ　and　シ as well as　ソand　ン? They just seem so insanely similar, that I can't figure out how to write them differently, much less distinguish them from one another. All that I can tell for a difference is the direction of the floating..things(what's the term for the things on the left?Sort of like radical?)