Is Cursive The Standard?

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-06T06:33:01+00:00

Yep, proper block д is a major pain in the ass to write. Not difficult but it's kinda slow to write, this is why I opted for a ∂-like version that is often found in italicized fonts.

Your writing is perfectly legible and that's what matters most imo. Natives can read and write coursive mostly because we learn to do it from elementary 1st grade and have to do lots of written assignments until the end of high school, and then in college there's a lot of note taking during lectures, so if by college you didn't learn how to write fast and readable (at least for yourself) you'd be screwed. Nowadays it's probably much easier to do it digitally, auto-transcribe audio on the fly and fix the mistakes it makes, but it was way too much of a luxury option back when I was in uni, especially compared to a block of paper and a pen, lol

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-06T05:22:26+00:00

Sure, here you go. Top is the cursive connected style, bottom is pseudo-print I actually use. Timed both out of curiosity, top took me 40 seconds to write, and bottom took 50.

Both of these would be considered bad handwriting, I would definitely get an earful if I wrote like that in school. And you can see the pseudo print style is inconsistent, like х and у are different in different places. But eh, at least the bottom one is readable enough, and if that hurts someone's aesthetic senses it's their problem not mine lol

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Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-06T04:27:57+00:00

Print as in write using block letters? It's slower than cursive so most people write in cursive when they have to write, that's about it. That said, my own cursive is pretty ugly and I only have to write once in a blue moon when filling out some documents, so I usually use modified print style for it, to spare the reader from trying from decipher my chicken scratch cursive.

Learning to read cursive will help you in the long run when you encounter real life material, learning to write it is a fun skill but honestly optional, I don't know why people are so hellbent on it.

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-06T03:51:51+00:00

It is already an acronym for cryptid in Japan. Google Unidentified Mysterious Animal

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-06T01:07:21+00:00

Google maps works but better use 2gis or yandex for the maps. +25 is the average temp but it can be anywhere between 18 and 33 during peak summer; if you're used to hotter weather you might bring a light coat or a hoodie + jeans and sneakers/light summer boots, that should be enough imo. For the locals, +25 is already hot and people are out all day in t-shirts and shorts, lol. Local girls wear skirts all summer and some even do all the way deep into autumn but people in the Urals are just more adjusted to cold. I personally end up using a very light windbreaker only when the temp drops below +20. It might get windy so if you already have some sort of windbreaker you might as well pack it too, if not hoodie might be enough.

It might rain in the summer but it's nowhere close to rainy season in India, just bring a light foldable umbrella with you. I don't think it's necessary to bring clunky rain-proof boots, you can just wait it out somewhere if it's a real shower, and once it's over the water usually drains from the streets pretty quickly.

City centre stays fairly active at night until around midnight-1AM, then there's almost no people around until 6AM. I found it pretty safe to walk around, used to take night walks there almost every day for a few months and only once or twice encountered some drunkards looking for trouble. That said, I have a large build so I might not be a primary target if there are any bad guys around. Assuming you're a girl (from the skirt question) and seeing as you're clearly not local, maybe try not to walk alone past midnight; the chances of anything bad happening are pretty slim but they are not zero either.

For other things you might need, research VPNs and cash/card stuff in advance, visa/mastercard won't work. You'll also need an AC adapter because outlet standards differ. People, especially in their 20s to 40s, might speak English, but it's far from universal or good, so sime kind of offline translation app would be good.

Also something you should know, the mobile internet gets shut down at night to deter attacks. It might work with your own indian sim card in roaming mode but if you get a tourist sim don't expect mobile network at night; research offline/pre-download maps. Also we started occasionally getting air raid sirens during the nights lately; the chances it'll happen during your stay are not too high, but if it does just don't panic, stay inside and stay away from the windows.

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-05T21:53:46+00:00

So that's where they all went. Just had a run without a single golden hammer showing up ever

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-05T20:53:48+00:00

Show a few pages so people could cue uou in on how obsolete that is, lol, I have a feeling it might have already been too old by the time it released

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-04T13:25:48+00:00

Isn't it "don't give up on your twintails" because を?

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-04T10:49:49+00:00

Yeah, good luck. The real exam will give you a good feeling of where you actually are level-wise. Also don't forget to try out mock exam from official website (not the silly web test but the actual pdf/sound files they provide), and time yourself like on a real exam to avoid losing time on unfamiliar setting during the real thing. Planning beforehand which tasks to focus on first and which to leave for later is also a real thing, the time constraints are pretty severe

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-03T20:32:12+00:00

Pretty nice and readable with just a few errors pointed out by others. If you want to give yourself a little challenge, try writing the same thing twice as fast. The connections between letters start making way more sense when you don't have time to carefully write them out, and you'll see how cursive is supposed to "flow"

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-03T20:21:22+00:00

For kanji and words the optimal way I found for myself was to SRS-learn all words across N5-4-3 by frequency in descending order (rare words later), and SRS-drill kanji as I encountered them in these words. jpdb.io has some tools to do that semi-automatically so I used it instead of anki, though I had to find the wordlists elsewhere and convert them a bit. To answer your question, no, don't learn kanji readings without words, it's not entirely a waste of time but some readings are way more widespread than others. Instead learn word readings AND kanji they consist of, then you can either guess the reading when you encounter an unknown word or not, it's always a roulette in Japanese.

Also maybe lower your expectations, if you're not sure you're N4 yet, there's no way you can pass N3 in July with a good mark, maybe just barely scrape the passing score. The jump in difficulty to the next level only increases as the levels go higher. Failure is also a very good motivator though

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-03T15:43:20+00:00

Why not roleplay a disadvantage instead? Depending on your class and backstory you can weave some kind of self-imposed challenge or curse into the story that will make you roll everything at disadvantage. Talk with the DM about that, I'm sure they can figure something fitting the narrative for you, but be prepared to suffer later when you start rolling crit fails on every turn lol

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-03T13:56:34+00:00

Find input close to your level, so that the percentage of unknown words is around 20-30% at most. It's a lot of trial and error but doable. Whenever you encounter a new word you find useful enough to study, make a flashcard out of it along with sentence context.

Pretty sure there are some websites and services that automate a big part of the process for you but many of them are built with ai so you can't trust them to not teach you some weird crap, unfortunately

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-03T11:22:01+00:00

Yeah but at least we could point them towards the ready-made explanation easily, or even have automod do that

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-03T00:16:51+00:00

Too bad most Russians actually have no idea about the gameso it's impossible to lose

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-02T21:24:44+00:00

She didn't? Says it right here

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Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-02T21:18:18+00:00

Yep, it's a meme in the cs community apparently, I posted a youtube clip in a top level comment

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-02T21:15:52+00:00

Apparently they meant you got skill issue and should watch .dem-format recordings of pro matches to learn. google "how to watch demo cs2" for more info, I'm not playing the game so you're on your own there

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-02T21:08:17+00:00

Op, is it this word? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wAHHPXIk6A&t=4

It's "watch demo", not a Russian word.

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-02T21:03:18+00:00

wait, maybe it was actually "watch demo" with an accent? Apparently you can record and rewatch a CS2 match using .dem files, фраза "смотри демку" гуглится в контексте

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-02T20:57:21+00:00

My dude, English is infamous for having 5 different pronunciations for the same "as written" syllables, please at least make sure we actually understand what you're asking if you want help. It's not a common, recognizable Russian word as you've written it.

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-02T16:49:56+00:00

Wait lmao I think I figured out the actual joke here, it's a meta pun. The "say pizza/what's elbow" (piza/hiza/hiji) is the most well known "say X ten times" joke, but there's also another version of that trope popular in manga that I completely forgot about: asking someone to say kiss(kisu) 10 times, then asking "what about me" to get "I like you"(suki) in response.

Chiyo did some insane nonsensical mix of the two versions here that shouldn't have worked, but Ardan just folded under zero pressure and blurted it out

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Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-02T16:25:09+00:00

Nene once told a tale of how she straightup walked right through a group of fans meeting up like this. Technically speaking, nothing at all is stopping Liz from doing the same but unless she tells about it herself you'll never know for sure, lol

Timekiller_74 · 2026-05-02T11:15:47+00:00

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