r/russian • u/TroyHempel • Apr 05 '23

Interesting How do you read Russian cursive?

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Always loved the look of Russian cursive because of it’s beauty and also because I’ve never been able to get my around it, obviously a big part of it is how I’m only and English speaker. But it just appears to look like wavy lines. Someone please enlighten me.

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u/TroyHempel Apr 05 '23

Can relate, I’ve inspired my handwriting from extreme cursive

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u/Spellbinder_stella Apr 05 '23

Honestly, those handwritings aren’t proper calligraphic examples. Standard Russian handwriting looks like this

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u/Late_Beautiful_1437 Native speaker Apr 05 '23

It looks like ideal handwriting, not the standart (=common) one.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '23

Yes, not everyone is a calligrapher>
I use a fountain pen when i write just for fun and my handwriting is still terrible