Cursive or Print?

cursive and print, I jump from one to the other in some work I do, when I'm doing something neat, it's print but note taking is cursive, I'm interested as to why you find it more difficult as I find it easier because you don't take the pen off the paper as much

 

Yeah, in our school we're expected to write cursive since we we were seven and now we type out English coursework in A levels

 

Never taught cursive only Print

 

RF teaches both cursive and print for the Russian language by default in schools and I taught myself to write in both cursive and print in English over the years (Most schools offer at least one additional language from Grade 1 (German/English/French/Spanish) and they generally teach print only for those).

 

They taught us cursive in Elementary school, telling us that we would use cursive all the time when we were older, that it would be really important. Even had a teacher in early middle school that made his students write everything in it. After that, never met a single teacher who gave a shit. Most of people's signatures are just a scrabbled mess anyways, I don't understand why so much time is spent teaching something so lacking in utility.

 

Huh, well this is interesting. Back in Poland, in my pre-school and primary school, I remember we were taught only cursive. I assume that this was (and probably still is) the case with most Polish schools, but I may be wrong. When I came to England almost at the age of 10, after I started to have a basic understanding of English, I was baffled at how strangely everyone else wrote.

Everyone at my English primary and most Brits at my English secondary wrote in print. As far as I'm aware, they weren't ever taught cursive. As I continued education, most of my peers admired the appearance of my handwriting as they saw it as kind of exotic but few could actually understand it. :lol: Though for obvious reasons most teachers never faced such problems. I remember trying to write in print, especially after my tutor ridiculed me for my handwriting (because apparently writing in cursive is childish... I know, silly stuff, but I was more impressionable at the time - as everyone is in childhood). And I just couldn't do it at any reasonable speed. Whenever I tried to do it faster, I would automatically start joining the letters up. hwell:

Now, when I'm at sixth form college, I still see all lecturers and almost all of my British peers writing in print. I've always assumed that this was the standard in Britain (or at least England), as it certainly seems to be in this part of the Northeast, but Darkness' comment proves my assumption to be at least partially wrong - if not utter bullshit, as assumptions often turn out to be.

This is something of a revelation to me. I know things are never the same across any one country, but still - growing up I've always thought that most Brits wrote cursive off as some useless relic of the past. Which part of Britain did/do you receive education at? Up here all I've seen is print (in three different schools). I remember only two colleagues writing in cursive - one from India, the other a Kurd.

Ages ago I taught myself to read printed Russian Cyrillic, but I still dread at the mere thought of the cursive variants. It's probably not as hard to get a grasp of it as it seems, but back when I used to learn Russian on my own for a bit, I based everything off printed and now I'm handicapped (not that I actually know Russian as a language anyway, just bits and pieces - plus understanding it is a bit easier than most foreign languages due to a limited degree of mutual-intelligibility with Polish).

 

Bamul, It's in a welsh private school so that might be why

 

There are no separations, one is supposed to write words continuously in cursive without raising the pen.



Pretty much the same as English cursive. Funnily enough I can read this without any problems.

 

No, I didn't, but I could.

It says "The exercise you are doing right now is designed to test how well you can comprehend letters of the russian language in cursive.

Even if you can't translate everything written here into your native language, you can still probably read this text.

I wish you good luck in further learning of the russian language "

A-ha, got it.

Never felt this way to me, but I see what you mean.

 

I just tried to write in cursive 10 years after learning it and well the result was not pretty

 

Strange thread :lol: But well, I guess my hand-writing is in cursive. A lot of people have told me it looks like the writing on the Ring in Lord Of The Rings. It's messy, though; some letters get larger and some smaller, other further down and other further up, and then I eventually end up writing it skewly. But in general, it has a simularity to the text on the ring in the movie. I do this because it's just the way I learned to write in Elementary-school, and it just developed.

Digitally, I always type in print, unless there's a word or a sentence that I'd like to put weight on/focus on. I also sometimes use Bold in those situations.

 

In secondary school I had a friend from India and everyone would say the same about his handwriting. It looked lovely, but I usually had problems with reading it because it was different than the cursive I'm used to. I think he also had problems with reading mine, since he was used to his own style of writing.

 

I have a friend whose writing is a basically a group of lines of different height, it is unreadable