Thread: Russian handwriting - feedback and examples wanted!

My handwriting in both English and Russian are terrible, I think. More than anything it's erratic--my letters end up looking differently sometimes, even within the same words.


Some things my Russian teacher hated me for:
* Sometimes my о looks like an а (like the first o in молчи).
* Sometimes I tend to leave out the connecting tic (before л and м).
* No lines over ш and т.
* Uneven height of letters.
* Sometimes I write letters that are similar but not exactly the same as Latin letters as the Latin letter instead of the Cyrillic one (e.g. capital В).
* Sometimes I don't accentuate the loop in е and я to where it's even visible (the e in мечты or звезды).
* I often don't close my a's and o's all the way (а in скрывайся, пускай (this is definitely bad, looks like an и now that I think about it), etc).

This was my writing quickly, though. I could probably get it a little neater if I took my time.

My English cursive is dreadful. I wrote down an English translation of the poem (this isn't even as fast/messy as when I'm taking notes, mind you):



These look so thick because they're so blown up--another thing people who read my writing hate me for is that I write very small.

Sometimes I write letters that are similar but not exactly the same as Latin letters as the Latin letter instead of the Cyrillic one (e.g. capital В).

I don't see a problem with this. For example, the Latin B versus the Cyrillic B -- the differences are negligible. Also the letters A and C.

K