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

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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