Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5115 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine)
| Message 1 of 8 06 January 2011 at 11:23am | IP Logged |
I noticed that a lot of people were learning Russian, however I am not sure how many choose to learn how to use
the cursive script properly (I was really surprised to be the only one of my university class to use it). Some may
be at loss as to how to learn it, and I know I've had troubles trying to explain how to form a letter or how one
should look like in context, as well as trying to find material to show how to write them. So I took my whiteboard
and my pen and wrote my own Russian cursive method. It's not amazing, it may not be the best, but I hope it
may help some of you. I've tried to detail each step I take in writing my letters, for each letter (it's useless for О
or С, but can come in handy for Ж, Т and М). At the end, I've put a couple of words that can look confusing, so
you can see how the letters are blended together, yet there's still a separation, and a short paragraph from
Puhskin's poem "The Bronze Horseman".
Again, I'm not saying it's the best, and my handwriting may not be your favourite, but I do hope it will help some
in their learning of Russian! Finally, a little test to see if you can actually read what I wrote (I believe it's pretty
clear, but I'd like to know what you think!), write in block letters what you think I wrote and (if you know it) its
translation!
Regarding the poem, it's not the best handwriting, the point here is more to see what cursive looks like in
lengthier writings. And sorry for the quality of the pictures!
The file is a PDF of 50Mb (heavy, I know!), and is available here: http://ifile.it/w6s0zfu
EDIT: Thanks to Texas42, there are two more (faaar lighter at only 1Mb) links to download from:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4K21HK9R
http://ifile.it/397nrif
P.S.: Yes, I know there are two step 5 for Ж, I was a bit tired, and I've never been good with numbers :P
P.P.S.: If you can't read my actual latin handwriting, please let me know!
Edited by Préposition on 07 January 2011 at 11:38am
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ilperugino Pentaglot Groupie Portugal Joined 5175 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin
| Message 2 of 8 06 January 2011 at 3:29pm | IP Logged |
Thank you Préposition for this homemade course of yours: it comes very handy in fact, for the cursive we tend to neglect (if ever trying to learn handwritten russian at all).
Your presentation is not only very clear but a generous one. And your latin sidecoaching is perfectly understandable (and funny aswell).
IlPerugino
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gizmo2012 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5095 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French
| Message 3 of 8 06 January 2011 at 8:34pm | IP Logged |
Thanks! I really like your latin handwriting. I found after learning cursive Russian my latin writing improved!
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Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5115 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine)
| Message 4 of 8 06 January 2011 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
gizmo2012 wrote:
Thanks! I really like your latin handwriting. I found after learning cursive Russian my latin
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Same! Everyone tells me my handwriting is French, but in all fairness, it's definitely due to writing cursive Russian! :)
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Texas42 Triglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5477 days ago 13 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English Studies: Russian
| Message 5 of 8 07 January 2011 at 1:51am | IP Logged |
Thank you so much, Préposition, I loved it!! By now I'm learning Russian handwriting, and your examples are very useful and clear to catch it!
I tried to compress the file a little more, so it may be easier to download. Here it is, just 1 MB.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4K21HK9R
http://ifile.it/397nrif
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Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5115 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine)
| Message 6 of 8 07 January 2011 at 2:29am | IP Logged |
Texas42 wrote:
Thank you so much, Préposition, I loved it!! By now I'm learning Russian handwriting, and your
examples are very useful and clear to catch it!
I tried to compress the file a little more, so it may be easier to download. Here it is, just 1 MB.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4K21HK9R
http://ifile.it/397nrif |
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That's very kind of you! Could you let me know how you did that?
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CheeseInsider Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5123 days ago 193 posts - 238 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* Studies: French, German
| Message 7 of 8 07 January 2011 at 9:08am | IP Logged |
I downloaded it and I'm going to keep it for when I decide to tackle Russian, thanks Préposition :D
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Texas42 Triglot Newbie Brazil Joined 5477 days ago 13 posts - 19 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Spanish, English Studies: Russian
| Message 8 of 8 07 January 2011 at 1:45pm | IP Logged |
Préposition wrote:
That's very kind of you! Could you let me know how you did that? |
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Surely, I opened your original file with Acrobat Professional. Then in the Print window, select Adobe PDF printer, go in Properties -> Adobe PDF Settings, set the Default settings to Smallest File Size. CLick OK and print the file. It will let you save the new file, and voilá, it is compressed and much smaller!
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