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Posted by: icarusi

I noticed a couple of books which showed examples of the handwritten versions of the printed cyrillic characters. Unfortunately there were no examples of complete handwritten text, just the isolated characters.

Are there any examples of handwritten Russian text on the internet?

Posted by: rtking

Yup, you can find cursive Cyrillic characters at: Master Russian's Cursive Cyrillic Character Set

Bob

Posted by: Castlestormer

I should send you a few of the tests from my 80 year old Russian professor at the University where I study Russian. Her tests are all hand-written in Russian cursive. I spend half my test time just trying to figure out what the questions say. She calls it writing in "real Russian". I call it writing in tongues.

Luckily, you'll see very little cursive script in Russia. It's only in personal correspondence. Here's a link to our curriculum at UTA:
http://www.gwu.edu/~slavic/golosa/golosa.htm You should also find cursive script here.

Posted by: rtking

Steve!

You're using the same text book that I'm using with my Russian tutor! ("Goloca" = "Voices" in Russian.) What chapter are you on?

On most signs, you'll see printed Russian letters. But cursive is used almost everywhere else. It's absolutely confusing! But once you get the hang of it, it's not terrible. Probably the most difficult are the letters with the double-dots above them. In Russian cursive writing, it's not always necessary to put those dots over the letters. (It's implied that they're there.) And you'll have to know what letter belongs there strictly from context of the surrounding letters.

Bob

Posted by: Castlestormer

I'm on book two third edition, chapter six. But can I really say I'm "on it" if I have no idea what the hell some of it means. I'm taking an "intensive course" which means dolts like me get left in the dust sometimes. And when I travel and miss some classes, it is almost impossible to catch up to the brilliant young whipper-snappers in my classes.

Speaking of my Russian professor, do you want to hear another evil story?

Her birthday was the 17th and some of us Russian students decided to throw her a surprise party in the breezeway of the foreign language building. I knew that she loved a Russian cake called "Bizet" so I got her two different kinds. Although she is used to me being a practical joker, she is not used to some of the American pranks we all hold so dear. I put candles on her cake that relight themselves. The more she would try to blow them out, the faster they would relight; which made her even more determined to try harder to blow them out. I just kept saying "Ms P...., you're not blowing them out right" which just showed what I love so much about Russian women and their inner determination. The picture below is of a fellow student telling her that the candles are trick. Was she mad? Het! She gave me one of the greatest compliments I have ever had. She smiled at me and said: "You are like pill. You make me happy like medicine". Damn I love this woman! Too bad she's been married to the same man for 61 years. They both defected 35 years ago as French translators for the KGB. Ahhh the stories she tells......

Posted by: Zaftra

Posted by: Michael Blue

CS, you're the man! "Writing in tongues", and that story...
Thanks man, I needed a good laugh this morning!

Posted by: Jojo82

I picked up this ancient thread on cyrillic handwriting while doing a search for the same. What I'm looking for is somewhere on the web where I can see text handwritten (by a Russian!) in cyrillic.

I know how to form all of the letters, but when I join them up, it never looks like Russian handwriting. Just as I can always tell a Russian writing English, so any Russian could always tell from my writing that I'm not a native. I want to at least make an effort to write more like a Russian. Any help appreciated.

Jojo