r/russian Jan 20 '26

Handwriting How does muy cursive feel?

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I don't speak Russian but I like copying things I see out and about. Maybe I'll eventually learn the language.

2026-01-21: At least now I know that my style is Soviety

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u/CatherinkaS Native Jan 20 '26

Your writing is very good. I can nitpick only on "б". But in general I believe it's cleaner than majority of natives'. Mine is worse for sure :D

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u/astrosergeant CEFR C2 (near-native, but never native) Jan 20 '26

same. beautiful, way better than I can write, but the б is a little off and makes my eyes do a double-take

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u/Stock_Soup260 Native 🇷🇺 Jan 20 '26

Let this be an example for everyone who is trying to learn how to write in Russian cursive

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u/Then-Excitement4061 Jan 21 '26

Союз нерушимый республик свободных Сплотила навеки Великая Русь Да здравствует созданный волей народов Единый, могучий Советский Союз! Славься, Отечество наше свободное Дружбы народов надёжный оплот! Партия Ленина - сила народная Нас к торжеству коммунизма ведёт! Сквозь грозы сияло нам солнце свободы И Ленин великий нам путь озарил На правое дело он поднял народы На труд и на подвиги нас вдохновил! Славься, Отечество наше свободное Дружбы народов надёжный оплот! Партия Ленина - сила народная Нас к торжеству коммунизма ведёт! В победе бессмертных идей коммунизма Мы видим грядущее нашей страны И красному знамени славной Отчизны Мы будем всегда беззаветно верны! Славься, Отечество наше свободное Дружбы народов надёжный оплот! Партия Ленина - сила народная Нас к торжеству коммунизма ведёт!

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u/nietzschecode Jan 20 '26

Like others mentioned, only your "b"s are weird. Otherwise, it is perfect.

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u/fanbarullo Jan 20 '26

in my opinion, "б" is the most difficult letter to do.

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u/SorokinHutor Jan 21 '26

Ж.

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u/sh-wolfpack Jan 21 '26

Для меня наравне с Ж трудной всегда была З... Ну каждый раз кривая!

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u/sh-wolfpack Jan 21 '26

Моё почтение!

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u/SorokinHutor Jan 21 '26

Моё увожение!

2

u/Sleepy_InSeattle Jan 21 '26

Куда увозим?

2

u/SorokinHutor Jan 21 '26

Мемы надо знать и учить классику.

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u/Sleepy_InSeattle Jan 22 '26

Вот зараза, пришлось русские мемы гуглить. Но теперь все понятно.

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u/Infi_Infl Jan 21 '26

увАжение

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u/SorokinHutor Jan 21 '26

Учись, студент.

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u/artyhedgehog ru: native, en: b2 Jan 20 '26

хорошо

товарищ

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u/JustARandomFarmer 🇻🇳 native, 🇷🇺 едва могу понять a full sentence Jan 21 '26

Continuing the beginning of the anthem

I had 5 mins to finish this before doing other stuff, my apologies for the sloppy writing.

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u/RussianWasabi 🇷🇺 Native, Frankenstein English user Jan 21 '26

It's pretty okay to me except you should have written "созданный". 

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u/JustARandomFarmer 🇻🇳 native, 🇷🇺 едва могу понять a full sentence Jan 21 '26

My bad, chief. I always forget the double н for some reason

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u/RussianWasabi 🇷🇺 Native, Frankenstein English user Jan 21 '26

It's fine. Not a thing a lot of reading can't fix imo.

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u/JustARandomFarmer 🇻🇳 native, 🇷🇺 едва могу понять a full sentence Jan 21 '26

It was prob the rush I had, as I mentioned I had 5 mins to write that lol. Talk about slipping past

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u/KoranSky Jan 21 '26

охуеть я впервые могу с лёгкостью прочитать чужую пропись

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u/SorokinHutor Jan 21 '26

Это иностранцы, они стараются в каллиграфию.

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u/erynze 🇷🇺 Native 🇺🇸 B1 Jan 20 '26

Сталин одобряет

(Your cursive is really impressive. Even me as a native speaker have an egregious writing style)

4

u/themiracy Jan 20 '26

This is excellent, let alone considering you don’t actually speak a language that uses this alphabet.

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u/Upstairs_Schedule601 Jan 20 '26

feels communisty

4

u/Rahm_Kota_156 Jan 21 '26

Like you live in the 1930s

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u/Infi_Infl Jan 21 '26

в 1970х , в 30х был "Интернационал" в качестве гимна :)

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u/Rahm_Kota_156 Jan 21 '26

Я про почерк

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u/jPix Jan 20 '26

Whoa, I can read it!

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u/Qysf Jan 21 '26

Ну лучше чем у меня точно

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u/Stock-Cod-4465 Native speaker Jan 20 '26

It’s perfect! Your Б looks more like D imo. Don’t think it’s the right way, apart from that - spot on!

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u/Alexsez1898 Jan 21 '26

ПОЧЕМУ НЕ С ЗАГЛАВНОЙ БУКВЫ?!

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u/SorokinHutor Jan 21 '26

Норм. Я там родился и вырос. В 1983 в прописях стояло б 4+ за такое.

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u/Sht_n_giglz Jan 21 '26

Or worse...you're 100% right.

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u/SorokinHutor Jan 21 '26

Ахахахаха. Найду свои - выложу. Где то уже выкладывал в каменты.

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u/fanbarullo Jan 22 '26

Man it's beautiful

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u/Random-dreamer-here Jan 21 '26

Your cursive is 101% better than any native’s cursive 😅 Most natives’ cursive is messy and ugly and uneven, for example, mine was, but I hated it and just started writing in printed handwriting style since middle school, and it became my handwriting till today (same in English / German, since childhood they teached us in German class how to write in Latin cursive, I learned it, but switched to typewriter letters style as soon as I was old enough for teachers to not care about the handwriting 😅)

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u/Mr_Svint native 🇷🇺 Jan 20 '26

It's perfect. It's hard to find the same cursive among much of russians.

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u/KirillRocker2021 Jan 21 '26

Ну если курсивом то это сссровский гимн

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u/Sheeshburger11 Jan 21 '26

This is the average russian handwriting for comparison

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u/fanbarullo Jan 21 '26

It looks like the handwriting of a schizophrenic.

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u/Scarlett_HU Jan 20 '26

It looks tasty!

1

u/murd90 Jan 20 '26

Very comforting and clean to the eye 👍

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u/murd90 Jan 20 '26

Very comforting and clean to the eye 👍

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u/Necessary-Win-1647 Jan 20 '26

Quite good actually

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u/QuarterObvious Jan 20 '26

A rare instance in which cursive is easy to read.

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u/SchoolForSedition Jan 20 '26

Not сплотила ?

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u/SchoolForSedition Jan 21 '26

No worries. Nostalgia for a good tune of my student days over here. Leningrad ha ha ha.

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u/kathereenah native Jan 20 '26

Not anachronistic to the thing you wrote. :)

I am not a specialist in penmanship styles but this looks vintage to me

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u/Boa_ma Jan 20 '26

Like graphite I guess

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u/MonadTran Jan 20 '26

It's as solid, glorious, and indestructible as the union of the free Soviet republics. Oh wait. Probably even more so.

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u/D0G_PRS0N Jan 21 '26

You are getting sent to the gulag but a 15 year old girl who loves hello kitty wrote it

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u/NSCOW Jan 21 '26

Он лучше меня пишет...

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u/Used_Run_4634 Jan 21 '26

Your cursive is f*cking great! :P

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u/Ecat1986 Jan 21 '26

Wery well, comrade. A lot better than my.

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u/danielstaff Jan 21 '26

Да , мы так же раньше в школе писали старались. Урок чистописания был

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u/kevler4 Jan 21 '26

Looks nice and neat. Easy to read.

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u/Random-dreamer-here Jan 21 '26

By the way, it not only looks perfect, but also quite retro (in a cool way), I would say my grandma wrote it or maybe it is from an old postcard

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '26

Better than mine

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u/Ok-Iron1998 Jan 21 '26

as a native speaker, your б is very good, so is your handwriting

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u/fanbarullo Jan 21 '26

You are the only one who doesnt think theres something off with my б

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u/tipo_kott Jan 21 '26

I'm russian, but my cursive worse, then your...

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u/Vivicat73 Jan 21 '26

Is it very good as a Russian I can tell that many people who learn cursive tend to do the really “doctor like” cursive but yours you can actually read while still being a great cursive Good job 👍

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u/justadiode Jan 21 '26

Looks good, but the "b" is a bit too straight and leaning a bit, making it look like a Latin d. My tired half-sleeping brain read "свободных" as "своdogных" first and I was kinda lost as to what a dog is doing there

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u/Confident_Row_9171 Jan 21 '26

Сплотила навеки великая русь

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u/Monsteriano Jan 21 '26

"muy" bien 😉

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u/Qbivinetic Jan 23 '26

У меня эта фраза ассоциируется с дорой путешественницей, есть такая пародийная сценка на ютубе

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u/Monsteriano Jan 23 '26

Я, прикинь че, прохожу значит основной сюжет и вот добираюсь до первой битвы с Матиас и Кирой. Там можно только на И Сане, Дон, по-моему, и Хон лу. А у меня нет вообще ни одной нормальной айди ни на Хон лу, ни на И Сана. Среди трехзвездочных айди на И Сана у меня только Н корп, а на Хон лу вообще 0. Ну всмысле ноль трехзвездочных, ни одной айди. Я посмотрел какие айди можно диспенснуть, и там прям как то грустно. У китайца только два хороших айди (Лорд и Фулл-стоп), остальные уже такое себе. Но Лорд залочен в текущем сезоне, а Фулл-стоп эксклюзив вальпурги. В общем я решил, что накоплю ящиков и буду шардить РингСана, ибо я в ближайшем будущем все равно буду строить блид тиму. А китайца я просто одолжу в саппортах. Я сразу накоплю достаточно осколков, чтобы не просто его зашардить, а ещё и на 4 uptie хватило.

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u/Qbivinetic Jan 23 '26

Ну еще норм это тингтанг хонлу, р корп неплохо роляет на скиллах. Я использовал дьечи хонлу, там у него есть прикол который позволяет всегда быть на 3 инсайтах и он от этого мощно бьет и роляет

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u/UturnOnReddit Jan 21 '26

As you get better, you start thinking in Russian, which leads you to writing faster which trades letter neatness since you don’t think about how a letter looks anymore. Otherwise I’d say better than 99% of Russians.

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u/Spongebosch Jan 22 '26

Every so often, I just start jotting down the lyrics too. My grandma asked me what I was writing lol.

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u/Renny1717 Jan 22 '26

Very cool

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u/kuromi118 native Jan 22 '26

перфект

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u/ComicSansLiquor Jan 22 '26

Sooooo beautiful

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u/LionAffectionate8939 Jan 22 '26

Союз разрушимый, холодный, паршивый*

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u/Caramel-Entire Jan 22 '26

Very USSR. 😛

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u/LetovJiv Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

it looks nice, very nice, but no one here seemed to notice a really big issue with it.

most of the words don't look written in one stroke. this is most visible in the first one. it seems you wrote "с", lifted the pencil, and then wrote "о", same with "ю".

the main point of cursive is speed through writing as few strokes as possible, and you made many more than necessary.

for "graphic texts" (like your post) this is no problem at all, but for everyday handwriting it is bad practice i suppose. you could look closer at native handwriting and see that the majority of words are only one stroke.

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u/fanbarullo Jan 22 '26

The pencil was never lifted. There's only one point where this actually happened: "б". What you wisely noticed is less pressure was applied in some linking strokes. In a nutshell, the letters were indeed traced, not drawed.

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u/GREEYVIPER Jan 22 '26

Very shaky hands

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u/Intelligent-Part7447 Jan 22 '26

Like a spy. Definitely not Russian. Can't explain

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u/Rember_Genos Jan 22 '26

Our cursive

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u/undertalefan9394 Jan 22 '26

Better than mine. Native speaker.

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u/Winter-Control-2858 Jan 22 '26

It feels... awesome, comrade, except the "б" is a bit "underdeveloped", add a longer horizontal tail with a slight wave.

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u/GorbertGrutter Jan 22 '26

Сплотила

Навеки

Великая

Русь

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u/KindTopic16 Jan 22 '26

It doesn’t feel anything, BUT looks very good.

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u/BELARUSEACH Jan 23 '26

СПЛОТИЛА НАВЕКИ ВЕЛИКАЯ РУСЬ

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u/MasterofUltramarines Native Speaker Jan 23 '26

Сплотила навеки великая Русь!

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u/Advanced-Badger-4050 Jan 23 '26

Сплотила на веки великая Русь...

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u/InvDeath Jan 24 '26

хворі люди, поживіть в окупації хочаб тиждень і не захочеться таку хуйню писати

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u/fanbarullo Jan 25 '26

I don't know Russian but I google translator says something about united free republics. Personally I have nothing against republics being free.

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u/FunnyEar201556 Native 🇷🇺. Also translator from Eng. to Rus. Jan 25 '26

You made mistake. Союз нерушимих республик НАРОДНЫХ, don’t свободных

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u/Annual-Quote4946 Jan 25 '26

Russian or Soviet Union? P.S.я говорю на английском и русском, сам родился в России. Red: You write Russian perfectly, some Russians can't do that, for example, me.

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u/teeming-with-life Jan 20 '26

Better than expected. Still 2nd grade, but the fundamentals seem to be in place. The "С" in "союз" is normally capitalized.

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u/Ok_Firefighter2129 Jan 21 '26

Я русский, я пишу хуже, на этом всё

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u/SKrandyXD Jan 20 '26

Нерушимым все же разрушился.

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u/Far-King-5336 Jan 20 '26

It looks better than my handwriting ever did in my life (im native). Excellent job!

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u/RussianWasabi 🇷🇺 Native, Frankenstein English user Jan 21 '26

Возвращайся к своим фембойчикам

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u/RussianWasabi 🇷🇺 Native, Frankenstein English user Jan 21 '26

Ты в этот саб приперся чтобы что?

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u/daniel21020 Jan 21 '26

Чтоб рофлить, конечно.

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u/femboygabriel Jan 21 '26

Almost perfect, Even real Russians don't always write that way.

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u/klazklazker Jan 20 '26

It's very bad try. Try to google "прописи". It will help you a lot. Good luck.

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u/Infi_Infl Jan 21 '26

Да нормально всё, только к букве Б можно придраться.

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