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Every child in Russia learns how to write in cursive. They complete a lot of practice sheets to perfect their writing. Here is one of the practice sheets:
The result that school children strive to achieve looks like this:
However, when kids grow up, they all develop their own writing styles, and their cursive letters no longer have perfect connecting lines and curves.
Here is what my handwriting looks like today:
As you see, I don’t connect many of my letters, and when I do, I no longer follow the rules I had learned at school.
Because people end up having their own handwriting styles, it is difficult to decipher some adults’ handwriting. Russian medical doctors are notorious for having the worst handwriting.
Russian cursive was developed during the 18th century on the base of earlier Cyrillic tachygraphy, and re-shaped under the influence of contemporary Latin-based cursives.
Unlike English cursive, however, the Russian cursive system is not considered a “formal” style of writing. In fact, it is standard practice for Russians to write in cursive almost exclusively.
That’s why it is important to learn how to write in cursive in Russian. I hope that you found this lesson on cursive writing in Russian language helpful!
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6 Comments
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Your Russian handwriting is so cute….
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Thank you!
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Thank you for your interesting blog!
In the US and other English speaking countries There has been increasingly less emphasis on teaching handwriting in the schools. Many schoolchildren no longer
learn cursive, but there is simply less attention paid to any writing by hand and to ensuring proper letter formation and providing sufficient practice so that skills become automatic and fluent. It is often thought to be less necessary these days because people do the majority of their writing on a keyboard.
However, there is substantial evidence of the benefits of writing by hand for the process of learning to read, express thoughts in writing and learning in General.
Do Russian schools today continue to give handwriting the same degree of attention as they did in he past or has the situation changed there as well?
Спасибо!
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Miriam, I don’t know if the amount of attention is the same compared to when I was in school. However, what I do know is that school children in Belarus and Russia today are required to write using cursive. It’s faster to write in cursive, and given that Belarus and Russia are not as computerized as the US, it’ll be a while until this skill is no longer viewed as necessary. Typing may be taught in some schools in central cities, but I think that these schools are exceptions rather than rules. I agree with you, however, that writing in cursive is a great skill to have.
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Great!!! Thank you so much for posting this! (From Brazil)
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You are welcome!
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