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Re: OT More pens (was Re: Phoneme winnowing continues)

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Monday, June 9, 2003, 18:44
Christophe Grandsire wrát:

> "Handwriting was hardly taught"? To me, it's identical to say "writing was > hardly taught". In France, when we learn to write, we learn handwriting! We > learn no other way to write than in cursive! And we learn that in first > primary school year, age 6 thus. Reading has usually been taught a year > before in the last year of kindergarten. But I fail to understand how you > can be taught to write otherwise...
The same in Ukraine, both in my elemetary school years (1974-1976), and nowadays.
> What I find really strange is that you don't learn to write cursive as your > first handwriting. Strange...
Moi, I find it strange too. Nevertheless, this kind of education gives me an opportunity to be proud of my wife: Her friends from abroad are fascinated with her handwriting, while I find it hardly legible ;))
> En réponse à Andreas Johansson : > > >At any rate, I learnt writing in "block letters" (=unconnected letters that > >look alot like printed letters) in year one, and _skrivstil_ (=connected > >handwriting) in year three. > > Strange. We never learn to write in unconnected letters in France. It's > supposed to come by itself (and it does).
Hehe. At last there is difference. We learnt them both in the 1st form (= year one). But surely you were not allowed to use block letters for any writing in school except filling forms (blanks). ~~~~~~Yitzik~~~~~~

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