Can You Read Cursive? Test Yourself! | English with Jennifer

Test your ability to read different samples of cursive handwriting submitted by adults who were born and raised in the U.S. Pick up some fun idioms that haven't completely died out...yet! As long as some people continue to write in cursive, these idioms will float around in American English. Can you cope with cursive? Find out! Stick around until the end to see the most beautiful sample of cursive!

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Index
0:00 Introduction
1:57 Some related vocabulary
2:57 Reading Challenge #1 (thoughts on penmanship)
4:19 Printing vs. writing in cursive. Related vocabulary.
5:21 Idiom: Dot the i's and cross the t's.
6:41 Idiom: Mind your p's and q's.
8:15 Reading Challenge #2 (handwritten recipes)
10:38 Reading Challenge #3 (advice)

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[cdmChase]

Thank you for this.. im 41 and Charlotte Iserbyt wrote a book called The deliberate dumbing down of America I think you all need to read it..

[zainabshafi]

Please make more videos, I can’t read cursive

[danielat]

Thanks Jennifer I really loved this video! I should admit that sometime I can’t read my own cursive ✍️

[manuelgordillo]

Because of the Covid, my School Language depend on Universite, close down for a while. Thereafter nothing was the same, even later we must attend with a mask. For two years I have typed more than usual. Handwriting by hand was dropped out and we got used to typing and typing over and over again losing my ability by handwriting. In the meantime, we attend school only for the final tasks. I passed by the last year without a problem, but this year barely I had written by hand a result I realize I had lost the ability with my handwriting. As the result, It was funny when I did my last writing exam, I had jotted down before copy on the Oficial Sheet three or four times. Although I type so quick, from then I jot down every day four times more than before.

[ledovyj]

Hi Jennifer, I am from Russia)
What I want to mention is too difficult to me read someone's Russian cursive but English was also difficult)))
Thanks for the cute video!

[jean-louismorgenthaler]

Everything has its flip side. While new technologies allow human beings to be smarter, quicker and more efficient, it has us lost skills that were previously of high price. I visited a couple of week ago a Museum of Prehistoric Times in Saint-Germain- en-Laye (France) and I was struck by the incredibly beautiful objects Neolithic people could make from stones. Their know-how however became worthless as bronze tools and weapons spread everywhere. They were better, cheaper and allowed new kinds of tools to be made. A whole civilization so disappeared. I'm 73 now, and cursive writing was a major skill when I was a schoolboy. This time might be eventually over now. But I feel lucky though, because I have seen and been part of different cultures.

[avocatobobble]

There were a few words in that first example that threw me, the handwriting was just a little to tight and undefined for me to make sense of it all but I got the general gist. It’s crazy that some people couldn’t read any of that. Plus how are people creating their signatures nowadays if they can’t write cursive? Surely they’re not just printing their name as a signature?

[nisarnawaz]

Hi . Can you guide me about essay writing ? Any direct contact

[debughosh]

Mam, 'ee' and 'ea' both make long sound of the letter 'E'. When do we use 'ee' and 'ea' for long 'E' sound.
Eat Tree sheep leaf

Please make me understand.

[trendyoutfits]

You promised that you would finish the work by the end of the this week .

Mam, as it is reported speech shouldn't it be
that week?

[hilalahmad]

Thanks for this beautiful video Jennifer! I think technology has kind of snatched many good things from us. I would say stuff written by our hands is emotionally more charged than what we write on our screens today.
Thanks!
Take care!

[qiugezhang]

I taught myself a little bit English cursive and calligraphy…but I can only read them very slowly. I don’t understand why people nowadays still write in cursive especially when their writings are for others to read! They are quite messy and confuse everyone in my opinion!

[Amira_]

Thank you teacher for help us and I need help my daughter . Do you have any link teach math and English please Let me know

[nasupanda]

I am an English learner, and, the cursive writing style has been indecipherable to me, which I occasionally encounter.

It occurred to me that why not just practice it, found this video, and this is exactly what I needed. This video makes cursive from a massive mess to something enjoyable. Realized that just looking at people’s writing brings me a sense of joy.

Thanks a lot!

[vivianefernandeshashizume]

Hi Jennifer, I'm from Brazil, and there's still a lot of cursive writing there. now I live in us and I discovered in everyday life this difficulty people have in understanding cursive. right now I'm learning to write print so that people understand me. Thanks for this class!

[FreeLunchFreddy]

As articulate and intelligent as these young kids are yet technology has dumb them down to a fault

[dorismoore]

I can read cursive!!! But im over 40. How can this become outdated? Shame

[tejasbaing]

I’m 26 and wrote in cursive. I feel old now lol

[maddmonk]

Cursive is so much faster and easier than printing. Actually, after learning cursive in grade school, it was required for all assignments and printing was not allowed. To this day. I still feel that printing is for children.

[creekboie]

I remember when I was younger I was able to read it . I tried to read an old document from the 1800s and I couldn’t. thanks social media😂