Russian alphabet in cursive? -stupid question-
I was looking at the alphabet on this website and you know how it shows the letter typed out and then it has a picture of it written out? Well I was wondering if Russian people normally write in cursive. I tried writing some words out and it worked so much better in cursive but I didn't know if I was doing this right. I feel stupid for asking this, but I needed to know. :P
Re: Russian alphabet in cursive? -stupid question-
There are no stupid questions. Yes, Russian people write in cursive most of the time. If my memory serves me right, children are taught to write in cursive from the very beginning.
Look here to find out what Russian cursive looks like:
http://www.russialink.org.uk/keyboard/alphabet.htm
http://www.educationalfontware.com/RU_style.html
Aesthetically speaking... & A reply to the original quer
Does anyone else just absolutely LOVE cyrillic? I can't get over how incredibly awesome it is. Writing in cyrillic is one of the intense joys of my life lol. Some fonts are just too perfect. *ramble* Am I just a freak? ^_^
~dUcK!
PS - Incidentally in response to the original question: It was funny in my Russian class because our TA (a Russian girl) told us everyone writes in cursive and then proceded to always write in this mixture of cursive and print that was mind-boggling at first since we only barely knew the alphabet to begin with.
Re: Aesthetically speaking... & A reply to the original
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Originally Posted by Duck_Waters
Does anyone else just absolutely LOVE cyrillic? I can't get over how incredibly awesome it is. Writing in cyrillic is one of the intense joys of my life lol. Some fonts are just too perfect. *ramble* Am I just a freak? ^_^
~dUcK!
W. T. F.?
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If my memory serves me right, children are taught to write in cursive from the very beginning.
Yup. And rigid soviet system teaches them to write, oh, does it ever! Children were strictly taught the same style throughout the union so there is not much variation in handwriting, everyone's is 'legible' and easy to read, as opposed to capitalist scum. Handwriting is also used 99.9% of the time in letters & notes, no one uses block letters. One would be considered illiterate if he were to write in block letters.
I am also. No problem here except the side of my hand looks black after I write with pencil and holding a pencil/pen feels like this:
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~fuhrmann/pencil.jpg
Re: Aesthetically speaking... & A reply to the original
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Originally Posted by Duck_Waters
Does anyone else just absolutely LOVE cyrillic? I can't get over how incredibly awesome it is.
Yea, I actually started to learn russian as a result of the cyrillic alphabet.