Handwriting practice. Page #1 of Beauty and the beast
I decided to begin practicing Russian handwriting today. I found a Russian edition of Disney`s beauty and the beast, (with audiobook) which I`m going to first write down in both written and handwritten form, before I`m going to translate it and use it to practice reading and aural training.
Anyways.. I was going to upload A picture of both written and handwritten form but since italki is a bit outdated it only allows 1 photo and max 2mb. Therefor I have only uploaded the handwriting from the first page, and not both written forms.
What I want to know is if it looks ok/ readable for Russians or if there are any corrections I should apply to the writing style.
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Corrections · 9
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I made a video for you with some letters. Look here
https://youtu.be/F3EVVVm2AZ8
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Yes, it is readable but you have some problems which, to be honest, are pretty serious. Why serious? Because learning handwriting is time-consuming. Russian children spend a lot of their time learning handwriting during their first school year. So, if you really want to learn it you should do it properly and without memorizing your own errors. Because to de-learn and re-learn will be even worse.
1) Problems with separate letters.
The letter В. You write it like English b. In the Russian letter, the upper part should look like a slightly stretched loop, not as a line. It is the mistake.
The letter Г. You write it very similarly to the letter Ч. The upper part should be smoothly arched but not wavy. That why the words слуг, могли, своего, грубый, грозы for example, look like случ, мочли, своечо, чрубый, чрозы etc. It is the serious mistake.
The letter Ц. The lower loop should be shorter and narrower than the loop of the vowel У. In the word принцу, it is clearly seen the error because both letters are near to each other.
The letter Щ. The same mistake as with the letter Ц (нищенка, отвращением). The lower loop is too big and long.
2) Another problem that is more serious is how you link the letters among themselves. This problem is caused partly by errors described above and partly because it seems no one explains to you how to do it properly. Some clusters are indecipherable and could be understood only because of context. For example, in the headline, you have the problem with linking the cluster ВИЦ (красавица) and ВИЩ (чудовище). The linking problem in cluster ОС (роскошный); ВС (все, всё) ОГ (могли), ШН (страшной), ША (выслушал) etc. The correct linking is very important as it let you write faster, easily and make your text clearer. I have no idea how to explain, as it should be obviously shown. But try to buy the special notebooks (прописи) suggested by another italki member and learn to write the problematic letters, and only after that learn to write the linking problematic letter clusters.
3) And the last thing. In Russian, handwriting should be lean to the right, it is called наклон.
Update. I've googled прописи. It seems you can download them free without any problem and print them out. There are hundreds of them online. But it is better to ask your teacher to choose the most convenient one.
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If you want it look 'Russian' yo may think of repeating the same road we pass from the first grade till the high school. Right before the first grade we take lessons were we draw палочки и крючочки - typical elemnts of the letters. Then in the first grade we write letters using copybooks where letter-height and direction are shown.... look in Google images for тетрадь в косую линейку. Also look "прописи"- it is copybooks with exmaples. Letters are big and round. We still use such copybooks till the third grade. Later we use copy-books like the one you used. The primary concern of writing becomes legibility. Letter size, withs, roundess and overall style changes. In high-school we already have individual styles, favorite (and often a bit unusual) letter-shapes etc.
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Thank you for commenting and for constructive criticism. Highly appreciated :) Truth be told When I learned the letters in print and in handwritten I learned all letters as separate and only notes regarding writing were that L, M, and "Reverse R" (Ya) should start separate because of their distinct "svosj" at the beginning.
This was my first go at actually writing combined letters since middle school, so I did the connections between letters as I would with Norwegian and English.
Funny that the h, and bl I learned was non standard. Gonna do a search and se how it turns out for the next page :)
Thanks again for lot of feedback :D
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Normally Russian handwriting is leaning right. It is achieved by having you paper slightly turned counterclockwise. Ok, no, not this way actually:))) But it recommended to 1st graders to do it so... otherwise kids tend to turn themselves and this is not good for their spine:)
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