This is a seriously awesome script.

[conuly]

Look at it! And they say American cursive is curly. This is like... curly CURLY curly. Look at those Ns! I have no idea how anybody ever learned to read this stuff, but it's really pretty.

So I've caved and started Ana on basic cursive, one letter a day (excepting Monday). When she gets all the lowercase letters down I'll start copying out her sight word worksheets every day for her to do in cursive as well. She doesn't like the work, but she *is* pleased at how neat her handwriting already is and that it's easy enough. And she more or less understands my point that learning it now is a lot easier than unlearning print when she's 8 or 9. Even if they don't enforce it, it's just a lot of stress. (To be honest, I just got tired of seeing her hold her pencil wrong, and I *know* it's because of the printing!)

I still want to see other types of cursive than the one I'm able to print out worksheets of, but I've yet to figure out the search terms.

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I have no idea how anybody ever learned to read this stuff, but it's really pretty.

Very easily, to be honest. As soon as you've got the weird "e", "r" and "o" and "S"s down, all the rest is practice. I used to be able to both read and write fluently when I was younger and helping my mom decipher old letters. These days - gone out of practice, since I hardly need it - I could no longer actively write in it without looking half the letters up, but I can still read it (albeit slowly). I find it puzzling when people tell me they were never able to decipher Sütterlin; I can't help thinking that they can't have put much of an effort into it. I mean, we're talking about a variant of Latin writing here - it's not like it's Japanese or anything....