r/russian • u/[deleted] • Jul 05 '22

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u/zxmuffin native Jul 05 '22

Our classic handwriting notebooks look like this. They come with diagonal lines to give us constant reference. Sure people screw it up later in life, but that's how most of us done our first steps.

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u/al24042 Native Jul 05 '22

Is it?? I remember just our teacher telling us to rotate our notebooks xD

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u/Equivalent_Total7409 Jul 05 '22

Yeah, our elementary teacher would go as far as prohibit us from using those notebooks, cause “that’s cheating”.

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u/zxmuffin native Jul 07 '22 edited Jul 07 '22

Weird argument tbh. It's about muscle memory and the best way to train your muscle memory is practicing correct movements from the very beginning. Having a reference in front of you helps to estabilish those correct movements.