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Q: Do chinese people understand the cursive writing style?

I haven't come across one Chinese person that will admit to understanding this style of writing. Have you? I mean really if you can read print you should be able to read cursive writing right?!?

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Um, when using pen and paper, most of my Chinese friends will write English in a cursive style.  It's a little tiresome to write the letters out like a first grader would do it.  You know, like on that ruled paper with the dotted line to show where the tops of lower case letters should be....

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Not really mate. It's the same with cursive Chinese.  I can read Chinese characters but I can't necessarily read someones crazy handwriting. I personally think cursive English is easier for a non-native speaker to read than cursive Chinese for a non-native speaker. But me and all the foreigners that can speak Chinese that I've met have difficulty reading cursive Chinese so I can understand why the Chinese find it hard.

Obviously I find it easier to read now, but when I was still learning it was a nightmare, and it's still hard sometimes now.

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no they don't. but hopefully they can learn it too. their pinyin print is impressive, though.

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