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This sounds... crazy. I learned cursive in the UK as a young child with a ball-point and it made very little difference to writing. Yeesh, no wonder the US has
by abritinthebay 10y ago
This sounds... crazy. I learned cursive in the UK as a young child with a ball-point and it made very little difference to writing.
Yeesh, no wonder the US has such a hate-on for it.
- tropo 10y agoYou probably used UK-style joined-up writing. Americans tend to use something like D'Nealian cursive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Nealian It takes time to correct a student's mistakes. If this isn't done, poor legibility becomes a habit. Tracing oversized letters isn't going to lead to quality cursive. Yes, of course you can use a ball-point, but typical cheap American ones have a wobbly tip (flexible body, flexible ink tube, and a loose fit between them) and require lots of pressure. Maybe you have nice ones in the UK. Students here would normally learn with a traditional wooden pencil. This works well if you constantly sharpen it.
- abritinthebay 10y agoYeah, UK joined-up is basically a simplified classical English Round Hand: http://www.cursivewriting.org/images/JoinitC1alpha.jpg http://www.cursivewriting.org/images/JoinitC1alpha.jpg It's... not hard, easy to learn, and looks very nice. It also allows you to progress to the (imo) nicer roundhand style if you really want fancy calligraphy.