What’s the best way to write letters villagers can understand?

[Spongebob]

I?m picking up this game again for the first time in a very long time and I never knew how to write villagers letters they?d actually understand. I looked up things online for it but just found a mixed variety of answers. Anyone know of like, a concrete way that works?

 

[Snowesque]

I just wrote "You're awesome!"; it would always get a good response.

 

[jae.]

Honestly, the best advice is just to keep it simple and follow the lead of what your own villagers write back, and what they say to you out loud. If they use a word, they will understand the word. If they use a letter structure (as in, how they spread words across lines), you can feel free to copy that structure. They also understand their own names, the names of other characters in the game, and item names. One thing you want to make sure of is to use line breaks at the end of lines. When I was younger, I'd run into a lot of trouble because I'd write something like:

'Hi [villager]! How are you doing?
I am doing well, thanks!'

instead of:

'Hi [villager]! How are you doing? [line break]
I am doing well, thanks!'

ymmv but I've never had them misunderstand a letter when I left myself enough room to end each line with a space and a line break.

If you want to experiment and see if certain words or typing styles work... it's kind of mean but if there's a villager you don't particularly like, you can send them your trial letters and see how they respond. They don't like getting gibberish letters, so this way you don't tank your friendship with villagers you actually like lmao