tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15658478.post4999260242575066452..comments2023-09-08T05:13:46.603-04:00Comments on A Spoonful of Russian - Learn Russian Online from Russian Tutor: Lesson 15 - Russian Cursive (Letter "А")Nataliahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11291284682945120563noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15658478.post-33520835438527172022008-09-09T21:36:00.000-04:002008-09-09T21:36:00.000-04:00bunni,I looked long and hard, but found only 2 sit...bunni,<BR/><BR/>I looked long and hard, but found only 2 sites that might be of interest to you. Looks like I'll have to write my own text in Cyrillic script and post it up:)<BR/><BR/>In the meantime, check these out:<BR/><BR/>http://www.omniglot.com/writing/russian.htm<BR/><BR/>http://www.ia.net/~jcarroll/privet/script.htmlNataliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11291284682945120563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15658478.post-55319160867186594462008-09-09T18:24:00.000-04:002008-09-09T18:24:00.000-04:00I, like Fernando, would enjoy seeing paragraphs or...I, like Fernando, would enjoy seeing paragraphs or pages of Russian Cyrillic cursive. Seeing how the letters connect is critical to having one's penmanship decipherable. I want to write as a local would! Also, do you know of any links which show vowel combinations? ex: what two letters make the long (English) A sound? I sound? OY sound? OW sound (as in ouch)? short i sound as in pick? not the cyrillic bl as that sounds like the French eu in peu or feu...<BR/>good site though; wish I weren't on dial up. video's take nearly an hour to come through :( sincerely meadowbunni@yahoo.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15658478.post-69674682960163681542007-02-27T02:51:00.000-05:002007-02-27T02:51:00.000-05:00Helllo Natalia,I just found your blog, and I belie...Helllo Natalia,<BR/><BR/>I just found your blog, and I believe it will be very useful for my Russian learning, although I still have ot figure out in which sequence I'll use the articles.<BR/><BR/>The idea of teaching cursive writing is very good, thank you. As you probably saw yourself, it is very difficult to get training on this on the internet.<BR/><BR/>One of my concerns is to learn how to connect letters properly, do that an "m" is an "m" and not an "i" (ok, this one is easy, but you get the point). <BR/><BR/>In this sense, using the letters in words is very important, and I wish that you had more examples of the different letters in cursive text. <BR/><BR/>Maybe just a scan of a very clearly written Russian text in cursive and block letters might be enough to give us many good examples of some actual and deciphrable handwriting.<BR/><BR/>Thank you,<BR/>FernandoBresslauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05905751166435667070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15658478.post-90259448819126163682007-02-07T08:03:00.000-05:002007-02-07T08:03:00.000-05:00Anonymous, you are right. In the early Soviet time...Anonymous, you are right. In the early Soviet times cursive that was taught at schools was more 'swirly and curly' :) But I find it beautiful.<br /><br />I am happy to tell you that after the cursive course I'll be going quickly over Russian print!Nataliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11291284682945120563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15658478.post-76277900806783174672007-02-06T23:36:00.000-05:002007-02-06T23:36:00.000-05:00I'm a middle-aged man who taught himself to write ...I'm a middle-aged man who taught himself to write Russian cursive from an old Soviet book called "Fifty Lessons in Russian" by Potapova. Russians tell me my Cyrillic penmanship is very precise, but that it looks like "a girl wrote it". I wonder if this could be because the old writing I learned from is more squiggly and swirly than the way people write today.<br /><br />In any case, I don't need help writing Russian cursive, but since that's the ONLY way I have ever learned to write, I have trouble printing in Russian.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com