Can you write in cursive all the alphabet?

I can. I just don’t. People have trouble reading my handwriting when I print it. I can’t even read my own cursive.

Yes, of course. Though the school my kids attend here in the Netherlands begins with teaching cursive – as far as I can tell they are not taught formally to print – and I discovered that the cursive letters (and also some of the numbers) are formed differently here. So I had to go ask for an alphabet card from the school as a guide for their writing at home.

My eldest could already write when we moved so it was a long row to hoe for his teacher to get him to quit “writing in American” or combining the letters from the one and other alphabet.

I refuse to ever write a cursive “z” again.

I cannot, for the life of me, remember how to make a lower case “b”.

It kind of looks like a wang.

Not only can I write in cursive with the Latin alphabet, but I’ve recently learned how to write cursive using the Cyrillic alphabet as well. That takes a lot of concentration, as the Cyrillic cursive lowercase Ts look like Latin lowercase Ms, the Ps look like Ns, the Is look like Us, the Ds look like Gs, and so on. It’s fun. :slight_smile:

That has always been a problem. Sometimes you have to read somebodies writing for months before you can tell what everything says.

I don’t care if you write cursive in another language than English. It counts.

Yes, in Latin and Cyrillic letters. My Cyrillic handwriting used to be for shit because no one ever properly taught me, and I developed my own weird print version of writing. But I’m taking Russian this year and my professor insists we write in proper cursive and now it’s all pretty.

I don’t usually follow the cursive I was taught in 4th grade, but I certainly remember it. The Q=2 and all. I have very nice handwriting, if I do say so myself.

I like to think I’m not THAT old (38) but I was surprised to learn only recently that cursive was no longer taught to every child in school.

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In other words, yes. I know all of the capital and lowercase letters in cursive.

Yes. I’ve been working on this with my children, so I have an advantage.

This came up in our house a few months ago when my wife stumbled on a site that lets you create a computer font from your own handwriting (or printing): http://www.yourfonts.com/

Yes, in both English and Russian (Cyrillic) and I think Arabic qualifies as cursive too.

I learned Cyrillic cursive in college. That was great fun!

I can write the entire alphabet in my two different cursive styles (I have one more traditional right-slanting one and one that is straight up and down. I usually use the straight up and down one, but sometimes I’m in the mood for a change) and in the exact model writing style we learned in school.

I’m not that old (27) but I went to Catholic school where we were graded on penmanship until we left grade school. In fact, even my printing apparently shows that. I worked in a garage in high school and when I filled out work orders, customers often would say, “went to Catholic school, huh?” because of the neatness of my writing.

On the other hand, my fiance never writes in cursive and has a hard time even reading it.

I can (and generally do) write in cursive. I was surprised this weekend to find out that not everyone can do it anymore. I have a nephew that graduated from college this spring and apparently he can’t read cursive handwriting. He had some graduation cards he handed to my sister for her to read to him because he couldn’t read the cursive writing on them.

My cursive is a mixture of cyrillic and english.
for example I use the russian n for my capital H
It looks better that way.

Yes, quite easily. I can also do it in two foreign languages, one of which is all cursive and written from right to left.

My capital Q still looks like a big 2. I learned it in grade school, and got high marks for penmanship, but no one knows what the hell I’m writing now!

Similar here, but I can only claim one non-English language (Persian). I’m kind of waffly as to whether Persian and Arabic handwriting really counts as cursive, since I don’t think of either language as having a form analagous to Roman-alphabet “block printing.”

Same here.

My Gs, Js, Qs, and Ss suck, though, so I usually substitute for them when I write longhand.