squelchy451 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5010 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English, Korean*, Spanish
| Message 1 of 20 20 July 2011 at 8:49am | IP Logged |
Do most people write Russian in cursive? Is there a good guide on Russian handwriting?
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espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani
| Message 2 of 20 20 July 2011 at 9:01am | IP Logged |
Generally ALL people in Russia write in cursive. We're taught to do that starting from the first grade. We have special penmanship notebooks called propisi (прописи).
They're pretty standard. Here's a site where you can download them. Scroll down a bit till you see a bunch of download links. The ones you should be looking at are the following:
Образцы написания букв (алфавит): pro-alphabet.pdf (22K) (Samples of cursive letters)
Содержание и указатель: pro-index.pdf (30K) (Index)
Прописи (73 страницы): pro.pdf (1830K) (Propisi)
You can probably skip the little hooks and sticks in the very beginning and go right down to the good stuff.
Edited by espejismo on 20 July 2011 at 10:33am
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jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5035 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese
| Message 3 of 20 20 July 2011 at 8:14pm | IP Logged |
Thank you for the site link. I learned how to write Russian in school. I took it in high school, but it's been nearly 20 years. I needed a review of how to connect the letters to each other, especially the hard and soft signs.
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espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani
| Message 4 of 20 20 July 2011 at 9:28pm | IP Logged |
The site claims that this is the shortest phrase in the Russian language that uses every single one of the 33 letters of the alphabet.
These propisi (rar file) have phrases in gray that you can overwrite and thus train yourself.
Edited by espejismo on 20 July 2011 at 9:56pm
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s0fist Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5047 days ago 260 posts - 445 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Sign Language, German, Spanish, French
| Message 5 of 20 20 July 2011 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
espejismo wrote:
The site claims that this is the shortest phrase in the Russian language that uses every single one of the 33 letters of the alphabet.
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It's not, that phrase has more than 33 letters and thus isn't shortest.
The following imho are better examples of shortest phrases that use every single letter of the alphabet only once (punctuation aside, they're 33 letters long):
Эй, жлоб! Где туз? Прячь юных съёмщиц в шкаф.
Экс-граф? Плюш изъят. Бьём чуждый цен хвощ!
You can find more information on that
on Russian wikipedia or here on English wikipedia or google pangram.
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espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani
| Message 6 of 20 20 July 2011 at 10:30pm | IP Logged |
Have fun translating those! :P
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scarlett Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4878 days ago 19 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English*, French
| Message 7 of 20 24 July 2011 at 3:38am | IP Logged |
I am dabbling in Russian (I've mostly just learned the Cyrillic letters) and I am just
curious about how to write the small letters for "T" and "sha" (sorry, I have NO idea how
to type cyrillic)--the Russian language book I have puts little lines above the former
and below the latter but I see that that website you posted does not. Does this matter at
all?
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espejismo Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 5052 days ago 498 posts - 905 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Spanish, Greek, Azerbaijani
| Message 8 of 20 24 July 2011 at 4:34am | IP Logged |
That's the old way. I wasn't taught that in 1996. My grandmother does that, though.
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