It's not taught, but it is a skill one also develops. Probably this is not taught because french kids already have a hard time with spelling. Fun fact: french

It's not taught, but it is a skill one also develops. Probably this is not taught because french kids already have a hard time with spelling. Fun fact: french physicians are well known for undecipherable cursive hand writing. Part of what makes it difficult to write is that they use Greek letters for short hand. For instance, they replace "-tion" suffixes with a theta, or the "ph" combo with a phi.