You offer a worthy suggestion that I suspect will be left unheeded. In the current lockdown millions are doing Jigsaw puzzles and other such pastimes.A little push from Boris (UK PM ) would start an avalanche.Īlas another missed opportunity for mass cultural improvement plus feel good factor.I hope Kier Starmer (OPP leader) doesn't read this and run with it all the way to number ten. It always helps to have something to aspire to.This would cost our government nothing, but would be immensely prestigious.The Americans, Australians, and lots of others would I'm sure join in the fun even if they thought their scripts were superior. ![]() I think the French are admirable in this instance.Can'tget (UK) an MP or Govt minister to push this?įor a start we should have our own English hand, an Oxford hand, or an Aberdeen hand, a chuchill hand, or the Buckingham palace.It should be simple and clear and basically italic. There's also this one which I didn't buy:Ĭursive Handwriting Workbook for Teens - also has the motivational quotes thing.įor using Seyes ruled paper, wouldn't it be more appropriate to refer to French handwriting books? Conversely, for using your books, wouldn't it be more appropriate to use Western ruled paper? Also bought some Seyes ruled paper, which is exactly what I need to get my ascenders visible again! The books haven't turned up yet so I can't review them, but the ones I got were:Ĭursive Handwriting Workbook for Beginners - aimed at childrenĪ Cursive Writing Practice Book with Motivational and Inspirational Quotes for Beginners - this one looks more adult focused. I found some books via Amazon's French website (luckily I did modern languages for a degree and one of the two I focused on was French). I've gone off on one recently to improve my increasingly illegible scrawl and I'm trying to learn some of the French style of cursive in the hope that a bit of it will take root permanently. I resorted to using my usual online translation tool to decipher the sentences for which my exceedingly-rusty memory of my second-rate High School French was insufficient! □Īnyway, I hope that these items prove to be useful. ![]() The website & the PDF file are, obviously, written in French, not in English. The two fonts are provided in normal ‘Roman’ and in slanted ‘Italic’ versions, and with both varieties of each font also being available on a lined background. Sets of fonts for the two different models (‘Écriture A’ & ‘Écriture B’) can also be downloaded from the links page (underneath the caption “Documents à télécharger”). The 52-page PDF document also contains other links to other, similar resources. ![]() The two model alphabets are also displayed in ‘ornamented’ versions that contain extra flourishes. The document contains a discussion of the value of learning cursive handwriting, and then of two different models for handwriting. The ethos behind the design of each of the handwriting model alphabets is explained, and then full example alphabets of majuscules and minuscules are shown, plus the numbers. My second link is to a document that was published in 2013 by the French Ministry of National Education. My first link is to the webpage on which can be found the download links, plus their copyright/usage rights notices. ![]() I decided to try to find a book or guide to enable me to try to learn that cursive style, and recently found the following items on the website of the government of France. I have seen the occasional mentions on FPN of the pleasant cursive handwriting that used to be taught in the schools in France.
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