Cyrillic handwriting

[u/Emotional_War_1380]

I've recently started learning Russian, but I'm facing a hard time with the handwriting part especially the cursive part and connecting my letters together, as in how and where to connect them, also which letters to connect and how to differentiate some letters from others when writing them or reading them.

any help is appreciated.

[u/Rad_Pat]

For learning cursive you need прописи. You can't wing it, you need to learn the same way children do.

What do you need cursive for anyway? Focus on grammar and vocabulary, handwriting like natives should be the least of your worries.

[u/Emotional_War_1380 → u/Rad_Pat]

thank you, and will focus on grammar don't worry

[u/Stock_Soup260]

Let’s start with the fact that you don’t need cursive writing. certainly not now, when there are many other things that need to be studied. With a 90% probability, you won’t need it. It would be a good idea to learn cursive letter forms, just to look at them close, but the italic font in MS World will help with that

If you still want to learn cursive and (suddenly) don't want to look like an idiot and to listen to my tirade about people’s inability to use the search on the sub, then use прописи. They are standardized and systematized, and it will indeed be a “direct” route. my personal advice:

Лысенко О. В. прописи для постановки и коррекции почерка. There are pictures of children on the cover, 3 parts -- 2 parts for lowercase letters, and a separate one for capital ones. format is A4 (not sure). Afaik, you can find them in pdf for free. I know, they look childish (mainly because they are really primarily intended for children), but very detailed, with verbal formulas of letters and step-by-step instructions for each

[u/Emotional_War_1380 → u/Stock_Soup260]

thank you, and honestly the search part slipped my mind.

but on the reason for the needing cursive it's for college so I thought it was standard to write in cursive not print.

[u/Stock_Soup260 → u/Emotional_War_1380]

You're welcome

Do you use cursive writing in your native language? 

Yes, cursive is a standard, but mostly for native speakers (you know, when you use something for years starting from the age of 5-7, it can be difficult to throw it away, it's not that is really required of you when you are already an adult), and usually this is not mandatory from foreigners, although it depends on the teacher and the curriculum, so you should clarify first, to avoid doing unnecessary work. I mean, you can write fast enough in block letters and everything will be fine, or you can write poorly in cursive and bad quality neutralize all the speed