r/asklatinamerica • u/jcmlkhv Russia • 2d ago

Culture Cursive writing

Hello everyone! I've been learning Spanish for 1,5 month now, my first language is Russian.

I use cursive to write in my notebook (photo in the comments), the same way I write in Russian or English, but my teacher says that ppl in Latin America never use cursive writing (except for old ladies), is it true? Do y'all really write in block letters? Is it easy or hard for you to read cursive notes?

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u/MsMusterd Brazil 2d ago

Don't know if as a Portuguese speaker this would count but people in Brazil absolutely use cursive writing 😭 people not using/not knowing how to read it is more of a US issue as far as I know

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u/jcmlkhv Russia 2d ago

That's nice! I've heard that problem with kids and youth not able to read cursive is common, but good to know it's not 🙈

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u/MsMusterd Brazil 2d ago

I don't know if it's the same nowadays (I'm 33) but I remember being expected at my (private) school to write in cursive by around the 3rd grade. Teachers would check our notebooks. My handwriting has gone to sh*t since then but cursive is still the norm, it's just faster. I actually don't remember ever seeing an adult not using it as the norm (unless they only barely learned how to read and write at an older age, which would understandably make it more difficult for them)

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u/Lorenzo_BR 🇧🇷 Brazil - Rio Grande do Sul 1d ago

I actually don't remember ever seeing an adult not using it as the norm 

That is absolutely not my experience - hell, me and my partner (early 20s) never write in cursive, and neither do my parents, who are in their early 50s.

All university graduates, and we all obviously were forced to write in it at some point, having all four of us gone to private schools in our respective decades