I will forever be cursed with a half cursive, half print hybrid penmanship.

Perhaps dying in the US but where I live everyone writes in cursive

I personally find cursive just faster because you need to take less breaks.

In Italy this often happens: pupils are taught cursive in elementary school. Then their cursive deteriorates and becomes illegible. By middle school, they switch to print. Then in high school as they need to take notes quickly and not lifting the pen is just more comfortable, they start joining letters in their own way and in fact develop a new cursive that is illegible to anybody but (sometimes) themselves. As a teacher.

We should be teaching the metric system, not cursive handwriting.

this must be an American thing, everyone in the UK at least writes cursive

Europeans watching this: 👁👄👁 People who write in Cyrillic watching this: 👁👄👁

"Cursive handwriting is dying" My school in the Philippines where everyone is writing only in cursive: 👁️👄👁️

I think cursive, once you master it, is way faster than print-your hand never leaves the page, you never have a disconnect, there is just a smooth flow from one word to the next

In France everybody writes in cursive, we're taught to write cursive at a young age so it's natural for almost everyone.

I'm a 90s kid who studied in India. I'm not sure about now, but in the 90s, cursive writing was compulsory in the Indian schools (at least in Tamil Nadu). Because of that, I still write in cursive. When I wrote a farewell note to one of my ex-colleagues, my other officemates bantered me saying "oh look, a royal scroll written by Prince Mithun himself". 😂

In Germany it is totaly normal to learn cursive handwiting. I like it a lot. Not only because it helps me to write faster (especially while taking notes) but also because research shows it‘s positive effects on the brain. Cursive handwriting activates as many brain-regions as playing an instrument. It helps in developing complex thoughts and creative ideas.

Literally every modern country except for the US: *uses cursive very frequently* Vox: Let's face it...cursive is dying.

I think cursive should be taught in art class instead of english. Typography is a wide art form, including calligraphy, hand lettering, type design, page layout, and much more.

It's simply quicker and more comfortable than writing out every single letter individually. What are you on about with the only reasons being tradition and patriotism or whatever?

I learned cursive in Elementary school. But as a teen I decided I wanted to improve my cursive handwriting to form a better signature. I ended up looking up cursive alphabets online and practicing them, the result of this was just a combination of all the methods, which too be honest looks really unique and somewhat informal. I'm really glad I did it to be honest, I have a style that's probably like no other.

In elementary school, my teachers told me that I had to learn cursive because it was faster and because it would be required in high school and in college. In my case, neither of these turned out to be true. I wrote slower when writing cursive because I couldn't legibly write in cursive unless I went at a snail's pace. Writing at a normal pace turned my script into an indecipherable series of loops. Once I got to high school, my teachers all required that essays be either typed or printed. They would not even accept cursive. The same was true in college.

Is this some sort of american thing? I don't see why i would not use cursive

I actually learned the Palmer method in third grade and that was in a New Jersey public school in 1995. And I'm glad I did because I like the extra loops on the letters. I developed a distinctive way of signing my name, where I make the loop on the M into a huge spiral and sometimes I add a huge spiral to the beginning letter of my last name too. I would've never discovered that if I'd been taught the boring D'nelian method, which is what they taught in the school I transferred to the next year. That second school also had a writing curriculum called "Handwriting Without Tears" and when I saw that I thought, "Give me a break! Who is crying when their learning to write? Are they serious?" My teacher even managed to fit in teaching us how to write calligraphy too, that year. I don't get why so many people think the Palmer method and teaching cursive in general is such a big deal. And I was struggling with an undiagnosed learning disability at the time, yet I still thought that. It's important for kids to learn cursive so that they can make a legal signature, that over time, will become distinctive and unique for each person.

Dying in the US. In Brazil, where I was born, live and teach Portuguese, everyone write in cursive, even the small children.

It's more important to teach children to learn how to read cursive than to write cursive in my opinion

When I was in primary school, (private institution, 1990s and early 2000s, Australia) if we handed in our work without using cursive, it wasn't marked...... Now everyone always comments on how "fancy" my handwriting is. A Swedish exchange student once described it as "the penmanship of a elven princess" lol

You know, it's even weirder here in Serbia. As serbian language uses 2 writing systems (and it's the only language in the Western world to do so), Cyrillic and Latin, we have a strange paradox, where cursive Cyrillic is used often, but like NOBODY writes cursive Latin! In fact, I'm not even sure that most of the people know how to write cursive Latin, although of course we all know how to read it!

I feel like everyone in Czech Republic writes cursive too. And I think it is taught as a primary option in schools, that is in like 1st grade. I personally use it because it is faster. Not necessarily prettier, but faster and still quite readable.

"What are you talking about cursive is taught and required in my other country" Video literally only talking about the United States

Middle school teacher says "Cursive is important if you want to do well in high school." Gets to high school. "You may write in print or cursive. Whatever you like." Me: -__-

I love how Vox allways forgets that places outside the US exist.

I - as a lefty - learned to write with my right hand when going to school in Germany, because it eliminated the issue of smudging when writing with a fountain pen, which, from maybe the second or third year in primary school, was the type of pen that everyone had to write with. Ballpoint pens were not allowed. When I went to high school in the US agreed around 16/17, I really enjoyed using a ballpoint pen, because I found the flow when writing a lot easier. After school, I didn't do much handwriting at all, hardly ever any cursive, for over 20 years. I recently completely relearned cursive handwriting, because I realized that I was completely incapable of writing legibly, and at reasonable speed, when writing by hand, and I've switched back to left-handed writing. It is indeed possible to write nicely with your left hand, just not with a fountain pen. It also takes practice, and if you think that your handwriting is terrible, just work on a style you like and practice. A lot.

cursive is faster to write because you don't have to lift your pen/pencil off the paper each time

for some people, writing in cursive is quicker. personally, I write in non-cursive, but when I write quickly, some letters just tend to link together naturally.

I was born in USA in 1969 so of course I learned cursive. My son was born in 1994. I noticed he did not use cursive hardly at all. Son is now 27 yo and he still prints for the most part. Honestly I didn’t know what was happening or why he was doing it but now this video it is shedding light on the reason.

What has been lost is not just cursive handwriting but the beautiful penmanship that commonly existed on a wide scale basis. It is unquestionably with a sense of nostalgia that I look a specimens of handwriting from the earlier parts of the last century.

Ten years from now we will start writing in emoji

Isn’t cursive faster? I write pretty much everything in print now that I don’t have to write much by hand anymore, but if I’d have to write an essay by hand again, I’d switch over to cursive.

I could never write in cursive anyway because my hand writing was that bad...

As someone who never learned cursive, the text in this video was not easy to read

As a kid (in the UK), I was taught cursive and used it all through primary school. When I got to secondary school and use of cursive was no longer enforced I went through a period of printing in capitals. Now Im an adult my handwriting is a weird mix of printing and cursive that doesnt follow any pattern, some parts of sentences are joined up, some are just capitals. Sometimes I catch myself changing from cursive to printing mid word. Oops.

I was originally taught print in 1st 2nd and 3rd grade then in 4th we spent the entire year learning how to write in cursive and now thanks to that my handwriting is a mess. It's like half cursive half print and even I can barely read it

After elementary school, I never used cursive for anything except my signature. Though, in my last year of college, I noticed my writing had evolved to fit the pace of note taking by adopting some kind of primitive version of cursive. I guess there’s some utility for hand writing, but really its that skill which is dying out anyway.

As a gen z who writes spencerian, I can't tell you how frustrating it is when someone can't read your writing.

I don't understand the problem with cursive. I live in France and in first grade we all learned to write in cursive and to read either in cursive or print, there was nothing difficult about it. Some people decide to write in print as they get older but everyone can read cursive handwriting. When foreigners can't read my cursive handwriting it feels like they're uneducated. (I know they aren't but it's a basic thing in my country.)

Instead of learning cursive we should teach kids another language in 2-4th grade.

I used to have cursive writing. But after seeing those western studytubers notes which are in print letters and overly aesthetic, I started writing in print letters to be minimal and aesthetic and now my friends, family and teachers scold me for writing like that since our boards will cut off marks if not in cursive handwriting (cuz it'll be considered good writing) I want to change my habit again ughh I'm working on it.

I’m the only person in my school who writes in cursive. Everyone is shocked and most people make fun of me for it D: Tbh I just like it because I can go faster without having to lift up my pencil every time for a new letter ~ I can just loop it all together - Plus it just looks nice and formal 👍

i write cursive not because i like it, i do, nor because all the girls like it, but because it's much faster. it's faster for me to just write a single loooong line connecting all of the letters than every single time pull the pen up when i need to draw a different letter, or a different part of a letter.

Cursive was the first handwriting. My teachers be like: "I can't read your cursive handwriting!" Alo my teachers: why aren't you writing in cursive???"

When I was at school in Britain we learned "joined-up handwriting" as it was called (nobody ever used the term "cursive") but in most areas of England, including where I grew up, we simply joined up the same stick letters we learned to write in, there were no special letter forms. Later on I met kids with weird handwriting styles, for example lowercase K looked like capital R with a long stalk coming out of the top. Also some of them wrote lowercase R in a 1930s kind of way. But I was never taught this, and I learned my letters in the 1970s! BTW: The weird style of writing was called "Marion Richardson," I was told.

been writing cursive since the 3rd grade! 18 now and i’m glad i’ve kept practicing it for years! very beautiful writing

Cursive is dying in the US, other parts of the world still use it extensively. It doesn't actually make you write slower if you get used to it.

I write much faster in cursive

"Cursive is dying" Me a 300 iq prodigy: *switches to Lucida in MS word*

I find it so much faster to write cursive, it just flows so much better since the letters are joined whereas if u write like a pleb then you have to lift up your pen after every letter

If I'm lazy, I use cursive. if I feel like writing, I use the normal handwriting.

how can you claim writing in cursive isn't practical? I was taught both in Europe and cursive was always much easier and faster to write in.

watched the entire thing and there are literally no politicians mentioned in this video im not sure what the title is supposed to reference now???

I couldn't wait to go to 4th grade, because that's when they taught cursive writing. But it never looked the way I wanted, so I gave up. This year, at 47 years old, I decided to give it another go, remembering how to but needing to re-train my hand and mind. I didn't let myself write any other way, and after 4 months, it's so lovely, I just stare at the page, thinking EYE wrote that

Woah! Y'all learned cursive writing at 3rd grade?? We just jumped right into it from like a kindergarten age where we just learned it together with non-cursives

Vox: Cursive writing is dying *when the teacher talks too fast while you're taking down notes* Me: No it isn't sweetie 👁👄👁

When you write in cursive it feels like your just gliding on the paper

I feel like I’m the only one who was never taught cursive,.

I have dyslexia and by learning cursive it helped me with mixing up d and b because it made me think about what I wrote

I remember my teachers in elementary always saying "you will be using this for highschool and college!!!" They could never be more wrong...

Man, here in Brazil we are required to write manually in every single exam/test, and at least for me, until the high school I wasn't allowed to use anything but cursive (mine was real bad lol), this was like just before the rona, I don't think that things had changed much since then.

Cursive definitely helps you write faster, if you’re in a situation where you need to write. ✍️

Everyone should be taught how to write in wingdings instead.

As an Austrian, I cant even imagine how live without such an important skill. How can you even write fast, without this technique. In Austria, we are only using cursive handwriting.

Even though cursive handwriting is dying in the US it still exists prominently in Europe.

The fact that they don't do cursive in the United States, and it is really weird for me, i think they might be the only country on earth where students don't use cursive, I mean, i woudn't know how to take notes on classes if I wasn't taught cursive.

Man, Vox is like better and improved BuzzFeed.

I have written in cursive since middle school just because I have found it to be faster than print. My cursive may be trash but it sure is effective 😂

Another reason to learn cursive: how do you sign your name?

I learned cursive in school, but never got faster with it than with print. They taught us that it'd be important for later grades and later life, but it never became so. My print is vastly more legible, as well. I'm glad I can at least read cursive as well as I can read print, though.

I swear this is just an American issue, writing in cursive is much quicker and easier.

In Switzerland 🇨🇭 it’s different, we learn cursive as default and later if we want we can write in non cursive but most of us write in cursive here nowadays.

In 3rd and 4th grade we were forced to learn cursive. In 5th grade the teacher told us never to use cursive again because she couldn’t read it

As a European, I cannot grasp why some people don't write in cursive. Cursive is much better and it is unique to every writer.

In England we just call this joined up handwriting and is just writing regularly but adding lines between letters, not all this loopy stuff

my hand writing is already barely understandable, if i use cursive it will just look like some strange alien writing

I never learned to write without cursive. It is strange for me to find out that cursive is actually so uncommon in the US.

As a kid I ended up not learning to write cursive because those lessons happened when I was in gifted classes. Didn’t really affect me; I can read cursive reasonably well, and figured out how to write most of it except the capital letters (I just use the print version which seems close enough). How often do I use it? Never. I also learned to write in near letter gothic in university and I do use that still for postal addresses as it’s super clear. Fun fact: cursive is more comfortable to write with a nibbed pen, while printing is easier with a ballpoint pen or pencil.

Here in the UK we call it 'joined up' and 'not joined up' lol. I write joined up because it saves time

I learned cursive when i was little..ever since then i write no other way ...i get compliments on how my handwriting is so small...intricate..and beautiful... I really wish more people wrote in cursive..but i dont want it to be enforced on kids...

Curious. In my country, kids are only taught to write in cursive. I never learned to write in print at all. At school, any of us who even attempted it would get scolded.

The only reason my sister learned cursive was because her class for dyslexic children made her. I personally think it help her writing improve.

Cursive is beautiful and more easy to write...for me

When i was still in my college years, my professor told me this about cursive writing: "It is necessary for a teacher to write in cursive because writing in cursive is much faster than in writing in print. When you will be assigned to places where there is no electricity or means of printing, writing in cursive is the quickest way to do your paper works".

Writing in cursive is bringing the nobility, regal, royal, as well as the heavenly style of expressing oneself. It moves freely and full of design. It speaks ones creativity the way art leads you, the way it inclines one to cross boundaries and excel to the fullest. It is an honor, a gift, a memento, a treasure and certainties to be and being able to command the pen and languages the way it should, eloquence, realism, and art. Have cursive writing a part of your life and it shall bring thee into greater heights, phases of existence, where nature is and so as the flow of writing seamlessly admirable.

It started dying in 2002, that year I was born and I never accepted the rule of writing like that in school.

Interesting how this is taught later on in kids' education in the US. I am from Poland and here they just teach us to write cursive from the very beginning. Since it's first writing system we learn, there's no problem with it replacing something that was there before. Why not just do that? They will want you to write like that until 3rd, maybe 6th grade, around that time people start developing their own handwriting. Does anyone know the reason why in the US cursive isn't just taught from the start?

When kids think cursive writing is a foreign language, there's something wrong.

In Quebec, Canada, we learned cursive in the 1st grade after learning how to write in kindergarten. I was forced to write in cursive until the 3rd grade where they would let us write in whichever style we wanted.

I was taught cursive in 1st grade. Don’t remember and can’t read cursive today

I remember how I was never taught print, we just went straight to cursive

I write in cursive (my school taught it for 6 years and my mum did calligraphy growing up). I've always received a mixed response to it, some have called it neat and 'Victorian-like' others called it 'doctor's handwriting' and I've had to read my work to people as they've never been taught to read cursive. I do it out of formality, to be honest, just like how someone would learn to speak in a way to sound polite, I personally think it looks more professional. I've seen more people gush about beautiful cursive than they ever have normal print. I would hate for it to no longer be taught, it's such a lovely tradition.

Personally I don't use pure cursive but learning cursive has helped me alot to write quicker. a lot of the extra curves are useless, but the main idea of minimum strokes per word still holds in my writing. I find that people who use print oftentimes have a little struggle with letter spacing. Sometimes the letter spacing is way too wide and it's just a little weird yk, and not as efficient. Connectivity in cursive negates that a little I think, because you're forced to keep letters close together for the connections.

I learned cursive around when I was in 3rd grade, dropped it for 6 years, but then re-taught it to myself during my freshman year of high-school after a couple of teachers encouraged me to do so and I became disappointed with how difficult it was to read my own handwriting. I have used cursive for years since to this day and have even created my own style that suits me. I find that my cursive is not only significantly faster for me to write but also easier for me to read than my previous handwriting If it were possible, I think that students should be able to opt in to learning to write in cursive if they would like to, but should not be forced to. Whether students want to write in cursive or in print, they should learn to balance speed and legibility and get enjoyment out of their own style of handwriting.

Bad handwriting squad🤘

Cursive gang where you at? 👇

Most of the people i know write in a hybrid of cursive and the print writing.. i feel its a lot faster to write in this hybrid style rather than sticking to one form..

gen z here and i was taught just before it wasn't required. We have much bigger issues than cursive, but I do wish it was still taught.