French Cursive

[Anne-Sophie]

Dear Mods: Ann Finley, HDoug, smk,

 

Would you mind pinning that thread? Not for my benefit but for others who use French Cursive and have trouble with some letters.

 

They could use Olivier's great tutorial and the picture of the simplified script pictured by Hardyb.

 

I know that both have been a great help at "the taming of the shrew letters in French Cursive."

[Mr Ink]

Dear Mods: Ann Finley, HDoug, smk,

 

Would you mind pinning that thread? Not for my benefit but for others who use French Cursive and have trouble with some letters.

 

They could use Olivier's great tutorial and the picture of the simplified script pictured by Hardyb.

 

I know that both have been a great help at "the taming of the shrew letters in French Cursive."

 

Totally agree!

[linearM]

I enjoy trying various styles and am interested in cursive handwriting as it is taught in different parts of the world. Several sources of French cursive handwriting were found just browsing the internet. Recently I have been practicing and am showing a page from my script practice book, since I am just starting please don't hold the appearance against me. The French script is fun to use with its slight slant and looping letters. Here are a couple of sources: http://a-french-education.blogspot.com/2011/03/french-primer-penmanship-by-pb-lecron.html and http://www.inrp.fr/images/musee/pdf/colloque_alphabet.pdf.

Edited June 24, 2013 by linearM

[thang1thang2]

I enjoy trying various styles and am interested in cursive handwriting as it is taught in different parts of the world. Several sources of French cursive handwriting were found just browsing the internet. Recently I have been practicing and am showing a page from my script practice book, since I am just starting please don't hold the appearance against me. The French script is fun to use with its slight slant and looping letters. Here are a couple of sources: http://a-french-education.blogspot.com/2011/03/french-primer-penmanship-by-pb-lecron.html and http://www.inrp.fr/images/musee/pdf/colloque_alphabet.pdf.

The second link you show throws a 404 error up for me.

 

Dear Mods: Ann Finley, HDoug, smk,

 

Would you mind pinning that thread? Not for my benefit but for others who use French Cursive and have trouble with some letters.

I would more readily recommend not pinning this thread, but rather unpinning some of the italic threads and then making a mega thread that has links to all 'handwriting' links. So a section for all the instructional copperplate threads, all the instructional spencerian threads, all the instructional palmer threads, all the instructional french cursive threads, etc, etc.

[linearM]

The link should read: http://www.inrp.fr/images/musee/pdf/colloque_alphabet.pdf . I copied and pasted so hope there is no error. It is rather a long pdf but has quite a few examples that might be found helpful.

Edited June 24, 2013 by linearM

[mboschm]

In page 10 there's the script I learnt at school! With the very same books I was forced to do on summer, called "bona lletra" (Good handwriting).

[Fabienne]

Ha, the American writing sample (probably the Palmer Method),"I will stop the chewing gum in the classroom." *Sigh* they know us so well.

[Uncle Bulgaria]

olivier78860, thank you once again. Your guide is very helpful. I don't wish to put you through a lot of trouble, but I wonder whether it would be better to post it as a scanned pdf file rather than a jpeg file. That way, it can be easily downloadable by whoever is interested in this script (that includes me, of course).

Right-click "Save image as ..." ?

[Anne-Sophie]

The thread is a year old and handwriting practice is still going on.

 

 

What are you all up to with the French Cursive practice?

[Fabienne]

I found a font which is exactly the style of French script I was wanting to emulate. That gives me perfect freedom to copy what I like and practice my writing doing things I might actually want to write or to do things which are funny or challenging depending on my needs of the day. I might need a day of 'The quick brown fox....", another day,"Thank you Mr. Wright, we enjoyed the giant box of spanners you sent us, along with the 55 gallon drum of 10w-40 oil;however since we were ordering chocolates..." and other things. Google "French Cursive Free Fonts" and there are a great many.Choose the style you like and download, unpack, type and enjoy. I recommend Ecolier.

[Anne-Sophie]

Ready to practice again.

[HalloweenHJB]

I find it most interesting that most Latin Americans and Spaniards use a very similar style to what the French use, although less ornamented. I love collecting penmanship books from different countries, so here are a couple I've found lately:

 

BRAZIL: http://aprendercomalegria.com.br/pdf/Caligrafia_1.pdf

 

ARGENTINA: http://www.comunidadgm.com.ar/imagenes/descargas/100200(1).pdf

[Mags]

I will download one of the books, great for practice with the fountain pen(s).

[Anne-Sophie]

I find it most interesting that most Latin Americans and Spaniards use a very similar style to what the French use, although less ornamented. I love collecting penmanship books from different countries, so here are a couple I've found lately:

 

BRAZIL: http://aprendercomalegria.com.br/pdf/Caligrafia_1.pdf

 

ARGENTINA: http://www.comunidadgm.com.ar/imagenes/descargas/100200(1).pdf

 

Thank you for sharing, those practice books are lovely!

[IanSims]

An alternate link for post 32 Brazil is

 

https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0ahUKEwiQwOi5xIrOAhXLI8AKHVbvDygQFggxMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fjottaclub.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F05%2FCaligrafia_1.pdf&usg=AFQjCNG_9heJicMCVKHwWxFgL55Uu2OF4Q&bvm=bv.127984354,d.ZGg&cad=rja

[HanhPhuc]

Not sure how many people still read this thread, but here's another good substitute if French sources are hard to find

Vietnamese cursive is similar and just as beautiful looking. It looks pretty much exactly like the French alphabet to me. A gift from them to us during the colonial times.

 

This was the method of cursive that I learned and it's very neat looking. It's not exactly like the chart anymore as I've changed it to better suit my note taking

 

Here's a chart and an example of an 8 year old's handwriting

[DavidHL]

Here is what I found : http://jt44.free.fr/abc/alphabet-3bandes-4ecritures.pdf

 

http://jt44.free.fr/abc/alphabet-mural-cursive-min.pdf

 

http://jt44.free.fr/abc/alphabet-mural-cursive-maj.pdf

 

http://jt44.free.fr/abc/alphabet-mural-3.pdf

 

http://jt44.free.fr/abc/alphabet-mural-1bis.pdf

 

Hope this helps

 

*edit*

And one more, maybe more suitable for printing :

 

http://ekladata.com/aliaslili.eklablog.com/perso/affichage/les%20lettresalphabet%20modeles.pdf

 

I made a little step by step explanation sheet, if needed.

I hope it's sufficiently readable (shouldn't have used a pencil, sorry about this).

 

http://i.imgur.com/91gQJoo.jpg

 

 

olivier78860, your sources and handwriting example gives me hope with a realistic and achievable goal to my improve my handwriting based on the french cursive. Longtime ago I saw a paper with the writing sample of a french acquaintance and ever since I was stunned about how beautiful it is. Now there is an opportunity to really write like that!

 

Iʻve posted this before and itʻs only slightly off topic: a 15 minute video about how they teach cursive in France. I really like the attitude toward learning to write, and learning in general.

 

http://www.teachfind.com/teachers-tv/france-teaching-handwriting

 

Doug

 

Doug, could you please post the video again? I try to acces to the link but it says I am not permited to see it. Maybe from a different source if it is not too much to ask?

 

Not sure how many people still read this thread, but here's another good substitute if French sources are hard to find

Vietnamese cursive is similar and just as beautiful looking. It looks pretty much exactly like the French alphabet to me. A gift from them to us during the colonial times.

 

This was the method of cursive that I learned and it's very neat looking. It's not exactly like the chart anymore as I've changed it to better suit my note taking

 

Here's a chart and an example of an 8 year old's handwriting

 

HanhPhuc, that is a very neat example! Thanks!

 

Now, I would like to add one more source. It is a video of a french teacher giving a lecture (in french) on how to write with this style. I find it useful because she writes in a big chalkboard.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXZoC7VryZg