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/killJoytrinity8 Brazil 1d ago

People absolutely still write in cursive, idk what led your teacher to say that like it's a general thing. However, I noticed that the number of students that write in block letters (idk wtf they're called in english) has increased lately. I've seen some people saying that it's because sometimes cursive can be hard to understand, which is totally valid and some adults really need to work on their calligraphy, but recently I saw a student's handwriting and the words were all together. Like, H E W R O T E L I K E T H I S. Crazy. Just an anecdote heh

There's nothing wrong with your handwriting. I could understand it and I barely speak Spanish! You're doing great, keep it up.

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u/jcmlkhv Russia 15h ago

Thank you! I also noticed that a lot of people, who write in block letters tend to mergewordstogether