I really like joined up type cursive, it’s very pleasant to read I wish it were more common.
But I write print (?), like this font here. It looks unpersonal, but I hope the receivers will understand perhaps better. I learned to read when I was four, and read everything I could at our home and grandparents home, which meant solving some old fashioned writing like this :
Cursive is usually a nightmare to me.
When I receive a card written in cursive, I usually need 10 minutes to read, and eventually can understand no more than half of the article.
In Malaysia, we do learn cursive writing in elementary school (age 10-12) English class [That’s before we started using CEFR materials so I’m not sure how is it nowadays] but not many actually writes in cursive so it is recommended to use them only if you are writing to a youngster.
Add on: Here’s how my teacher writes when the words are connected to each other (not cursive)
Good to know. If that is the case with Japan and other countries with a language not based on Latin alphabet, I’ll begin to write to them in capital letters.
As mentioned by other members above, I think it is very possible that people cannot read cursive writing in Japan and China.
It is very kind of you to write in capital letters or in print.
To be honest, it is after I joined Postcrossing that I know Latin alphabets can be written in the cursive shape.
I learned to write Latin alphabets at school as follows, and I write like this on postcards:
Often I have to just guess some words from context, actually quite many times I’ve had to basically guess the whole message. But sometimes just reading it a few times with some time and I’ll understand. But I would say I’m quite bad in it.
But with Russians, I have no problem reading their cursive (of English)! It’s generally more clear and round, so it’s easier to make up words.
I don’t write in cursive but my handwriting is more round and even in size, so I hope it makes reading easier, as I tend to write the card very full. With postcrossing cards I also write much slower, so my letters are not connected. Expect Y:s and G:s, I switch between cursive and not.
I can post a picture of an example, so maybe you can tell if it’s easy or not for you? It’s hard to be objective yourself and while I don’t consider it cursive, I guess it has some influence from it.
I hate my print handwriting, because I always had to use cursive since my first years of school, so I’m not used to it. I try to use print letters when writing to someone who lives in a country that doesn’t use latin alphabet, but sometimes I forget.
You’re from a country that doesn’t use latin alphabet, so I understand your struggles with the cursive letters. Haha. But I really would like to know if someone can understand my childish print handwriting.
I can understand your print handwriting very easily.
I don’t understand that language, but I can tell which each letter is.
May have some typing mistakes
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I can easily understand all of the above examples but unfortunately only speak English so I cannot actually read the message that is printed letters in Portuguese.
I rarely write in cursive any more and in fact, I wrote in cursive on my to-do list. Later when I looked at it again, I could not read a couple of the entries because I wrote so sloppily.
I prefer reading print than cursive. When I write things by hand, I write in print rather than cursive to make it easier to read for others. I can read most words from meylinhares’ cursive example but some are unclear to me (bronazon? asts?)
I was taught cursive in elementary school but rarely use it in my daily life. I don’t think my old elementary school teaches it anymore and I’m glad for that because I don’t find cursive to be a very useful life skill.
Well, I have some small reading troubles but in Russian/Ukrainian handwriting postcards only. Even if the postcard is written in English but by the Russian speaker. So in my opinion it depends on the handwriting sender abilities.
This is how we were taught to write in German lessons at a Russian school in the 90s. I still think this alphabet is the most readable (especially for capital letters). Later I used this cursive in English lessons at the university. And now I also sign postcards. I see in another variant the difference in the cursive of the letter “z”, it is more like the Russian “з”, but I have not met anyone else with such an option in the received postcards. A very interesting topic. Postcrossing promotes education.
I wrote in block letters only for a girl from China. But the postcard is still on the way