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The American one is much more extravagant/different from printed letters: https://www.behance.net/gallery/48963623/american-cursive-handwriting https://www.beh

The American one is much more extravagant/different from printed letters: https://www.behance.net/gallery/48963623/american-cursive-handwriting https://www.behance.net/gallery/48963623/american-cursive-ha... In this sense it is more similar to the older German Sütterlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%BCtterlin or Spencerian script. Looks pretty, but very, very hard to read if you are not used to it. The German one switched to a much more simple "Ausgangsschrift" after 1941 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausgangsschrift#Ausgangsschriften_seit_1941 https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausgangsschrift#Ausgangsschrif... My impression in the US was that there you are taught cursive in school, hate it and then never use it again.

claudiawerner 7y ago
I learned how to write in Kurrent a year ago or so. I'm not quite up to speed with it, but it looks nice, and I think it has the potential to be faster than British/American cursive styles.
HarryHirsch 7y ago
The other problem with the American approach is that you are never taught the proper motion patterns ("Arkaden und Girlanden", anyone?) that cursive handwriting consists of. You are expected to write properly but aren't given the tooling.
rtkwe 7y ago
That's funny I kind of developed to writing in Ausgangsschrift naturally having been taught the more florid US style of US cursive. It's basically just connecting the normal print version of the characters so you don't have to lift the pen. Mine's more of a mutt though since it basically came out of just writing in print without lifting my pen as school demanded faster note taking.
Izkata 7y ago
In the US in the 90s, we were taught that Ausgangsschtift one. I don't even recognize the "American" one as a thing anyone uses here.
- diffeomorphism 7y ago
  In the 90s most schools still taught cursive, but the US is big, so your school might have been an exception. > In a 2007 survey of 200 teachers of first through third grades in all 50 American states, 90 percent of respondents said their schools required the teaching of cursive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive#Decline_of_English_cursive_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive#Decline_of_English_cur...

claudiawerner 7y ago

I learned how to write in Kurrent a year ago or so. I'm not quite up to speed with it, but it looks nice, and I think it has the potential to be faster than British/American cursive styles.

HarryHirsch 7y ago

The other problem with the American approach is that you are never taught the proper motion patterns ("Arkaden und Girlanden", anyone?) that cursive handwriting consists of. You are expected to write properly but aren't given the tooling.

rtkwe 7y ago

That's funny I kind of developed to writing in Ausgangsschrift naturally having been taught the more florid US style of US cursive. It's basically just connecting the normal print version of the characters so you don't have to lift the pen. Mine's more of a mutt though since it basically came out of just writing in print without lifting my pen as school demanded faster note taking.

Izkata 7y ago

In the US in the 90s, we were taught that Ausgangsschtift one. I don't even recognize the "American" one as a thing anyone uses here.

diffeomorphism 7y ago
In the 90s most schools still taught cursive, but the US is big, so your school might have been an exception. > In a 2007 survey of 200 teachers of first through third grades in all 50 American states, 90 percent of respondents said their schools required the teaching of cursive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive#Decline_of_English_cursive_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursive#Decline_of_English_cur...