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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5575 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 9 of 45 25 January 2010 at 3:04am | IP Logged | |||||
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Many of the ex USSR countries used a mixture of Cyrillic and Latin based scripts.
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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 10 of 45 25 January 2010 at 3:15am | IP Logged | |||||
My ukrainian friend ALWAYS writes in cursive. He said block writing is like the stone age. lol 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 11 of 45 25 January 2010 at 5:35am | IP Logged | |||||
You definitely have to learn those but connecting the letters and putting all of the decorative stuff is not compulsory, at least as far as my experience goes. Edited by Sennin on 25 January 2010 at 5:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| neurosport Diglot Newbie United States diy-av.net Joined 5450 days ago 12 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English, Russian* Studies: French, German, Spanish | Message 12 of 45 30 January 2010 at 11:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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I was born in Ukraine and lived there till age 14. Unless you were creating some kind of a billboard with each letter half a foot tall you wouldn't write in block form.
I have to say that even though i never had problems writing in English or Russian i always had great trouble deciphering what another person has written, to the point where a lot of the times i will not even bother trying. I am just glad computers mostly solved that problem. Edited by neurosport on 30 January 2010 at 11:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| MäcØSŸ Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5809 days ago 259 posts - 392 votes Speaks: Italian*, EnglishC2 Studies: German | Message 13 of 45 30 January 2010 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
I didn’t know computers used cursive :P 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Genevra Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie Sweden Joined 5414 days ago 13 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Russian*, Swedish*, English, French Studies: Italian | Message 14 of 45 02 February 2010 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Since I was a child, I've always written in cursive. It is natural to teach the children at school/home to write in cursive from the early age. I believe it's very easier to write in Russian in cursive than using block writing - it takes ages!
Cursive writing just flows, as some people already mentioned it here. Of course, when I got to Sweden at a very young age, it was obvious to write in cursive. I already spoke a bit Enligsh at that time, and when I got to learn the Swedish alphabet I just needed to remember 3 more letters. This habit influences all my languages, irrespective of what language I write in - if it is French, English or Italian. But trust me, to write in cursive in Russian, will be the least of your problems if you will be studying it for quite a long time ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5403 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 15 of 45 10 February 2010 at 1:19am | IP Logged | |||||
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I personally dislike cursive. I can write it. It was compulsory in elementary school, but after that I stopped after two years in high school. Now I write everything in block script and can write it far more faster and far more intelligible than I could ever do in cursive. Regardless if it is in Latin or Cyrillic script.
I just now realized why both my Russian teacher in high school and my colleagues at college were surprised when I wrote in block script. No one ever told me it was common to write Russian in cursive! Edited by Delodephius on 14 February 2010 at 10:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| aabram Pentaglot Senior Member Estonia Joined 5533 days ago 138 posts - 263 votes Speaks: Estonian*, English, Spanish, Russian, Finnish Studies: Mandarin, French | Message 16 of 45 14 February 2010 at 9:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
My bet is that they didn't know the meaning of cursive as in handwritten, but instead thought it being having slanted handwriting. Cursive is рукописный in Russian, but Russian курсив is italic. Though even such mixup would be strange because slanted handwriting seems to be pretty common. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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