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Yes, it absolutely is as real as anything else in this universe - do not let the incompetence of amateurs lead you astray. That is on the one hand.On the other hand, just like anything else in this universe, this or that feature of any language, not necessarily Russian, can be contrived, bent, exaggerated, mocked, travestied, artificially blown out of proportion, derided or made cruel fun of. By doing so, however, there is nothing to be gained academically or otherwise.If you do not know how to fly a Boeing-777, it does not mean that flying Boeing-777 is somehow not right or bad. If you do not know how to whip out a Paganini caprice on a violin, it does not mean that peppering out a Paganini caprice on a violin is somehow not right or bad. If you do not know how to compute certain integrals, it does not mean that computing certain integrals is somehow not right or bad.All of the above means one thing only: you do not know how to correctly fly a Boeing-777, you do not know how to correctly render a Paganini caprice on a violin or you do not know how to compute a certain integral. But, with effort and proper guidance, you can learn.So if you really want to know the quiet truth about the cursive writing in Russian then there is no mystery behind it - only the pedagogical objective.Between September 1-st 1976 and May 25-th 1986, Monday through Saturday, six days a week, like millions of other kids of the time, rain, lots of snow or sunshine, I attended the specialized school number 15 in Moscow, USSR, located at 17, 1-st Kozhoohovskiy Proezd, metro station Avtozavodskaya:My school has the red balloon right over it in the image above.While the red-brick 5-story building, erected in 1956, still stands, the school has been renumbered to 1272 in 1987 or thereabouts, after I graduated.Our school’s curriculum was designed in such a way that a number of soft subjects such as Biology, Geography and Literature were partially taught in English, which we studied starting from the first grade onward.The school number 15 was considered to be privileged in the sense that all of its faculty were top notch, highly recommended, professionals hand-picked by our talented, smart and shrewd school principal Meleshenkovskaya Evdokiya Semenovna:You had to pass a light-weight examination to be admitted - late in August of 1976 I was verbally interrogated by Ms. Meleshenkovskaya in her cabinet on basic arithmetic, academic aptitude and language skills, with my mother anxiously waiting behind the door. As you can tell, I stood my ground and passed my first verbal exam at 7 years of age - my grandma was an economics professor at one of the institutes in Moscow; she was a part-time inventor and problem-solver and she mentored me from the early age.In addition to standard exams on all the other subjects taught, we had the mid-terms and finals on the subject of the English Language with an absolute zero tolerance for failures. If you flunked just one English Language exam then you were dismissed from the school, regardless of the social standing of your parents. Read more about this system in this Quora answer. The attrition rate of my school was: 13 kids in 10 years.As such, all the written exams were done by us strictly in cursive - Literature (compositions and essays), Russian Language (dictations), English Language (compositions, essays, dictations), Biology, Geography, History, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy.All the teachers across all the subjects wrote text only in cursive with chalk on the blackboard at all times.If and when you were called to the chalkboard, the standard practice of the time, to carry out some written exercise in front of the entire class, regardless of the subject, you were expected to show your rendition of the matter in cursive also.Some documental evidence.Back in the day we had these rather thin books called Dnevnik or Дневник in Russian. A reasonable approximation of the Russian dnevnik in English may be a singular masculine for a daily log book.The purpose of such a dnevnik was twofold:to keep track of the academic schedule, projects and homework assignments andto communicate your academic progress back to your parent(s) via the grades and special messagesI still have two dnevniks that survived the move - one from the second and one from the third grade.The front of my second-grade dnevnik was filled out by my mother in cursive:In English the above image reads, more or less literally: the daily log book of the student of the class 2B of the school number 15 of the city of Moscow by the name of Andronov Roman, the academic year of 1977-1978.The spelling of my last and first names is subject to the concept absent from English - declension.The inside of the dnevnik, however, is filled out mostly by me in cursive also. For example, a typical entry for Saturday, March 11-th 1978 reads:On the second line from the top, for the subject of Матем. or Mathematics, you can see my grade, which is 5, which is a US equivalent of A. The word in the rightmost column there reads ответ or answer in English - apparently I was called to the blackboard to perform.On the second line from the bottom, for the subject of Рисов. or Drawing, you can see my grade, which is 5, which is a US equivalent of A.On the bottom line for Saturday, in the middle, you can see in cursive my grade for the elusive idea of Поведение or Behavior - in Russian it is abbreviated to удовл., which in English means satisfactory or a US equivalent of C (yes, I was hell on wheels and bad news during the recesses but I kept my grades up).Note how my teacher could have written just 3 for my grade for Behavior but, instead, she chose to show my grade in cursive.The front of my third-grade dnevnik was filled out by me in cursive:By now you should readily recognize what the above image says: I was transferred to the class 3B (one year senior), same school, same city, same name. The academic year reads 1978–1979. But I thoroughly messed up the declension of my name.Here is a typical entry from that dnevnik from Tuesday, May 22-nd 1979:You can see that for that day, on the first line, for the subject of Англ. Яз. or English Language I earned a 5 for the Gr. test or the grammar test. The signature of my English language teacher is next to the grade.Again, notice that we were filling out our daily log books in cursive, our teachers communicated with our parents by writing messages in these log books in cursive, our parents replied in cursive and so on.Fast forward to my, say, third year in college. Here is a snippet of my curriculum that shows:the subject name in the first columnthe number of lecture hours in the middle columnpass/fail result, if applicable, in the third columngrade, if applicable, in the last or rightmost columnall done in cursive:At the top of the above image, on the lines numbered 4 through 8, you can see the leftovers of my second year, which reads in English (зачёт = pass, отл is the abbreviation for отлично = excellent or an A in US):Series and Fourier Transforms, 30 hours, pass, AForeign Language, 30 hours, passPolitical Economics, 45 hours, passDifferential and Integral Equations, 60 hours, - , AMechanics and the Theory of Relativity, 60 hours, - , AThe next line reads 3-rd year 5-th semester:Computer Programming and Numerical Methods, 32 hours, AQuantum Mechanics, 80 hours, passSpecial Seminar, 32 hours, passForeign Language, 32 hours, passPhilosophy, 48 hours, passPhysics, 96 hours, - , AThe Equations of Mathematical Physics, 80 hours, - , AThe Theory of Functions of Complex Variables, 64, hours, - , AThe Field Theory, 80 hours, - , ANot only that but I showed the hours of the 45-minute lectures here for a reason - during all these lectures I was taking the real-time notes in cursive!I can still read the above cursive handwriting with no effort and I am sure that others can too.Now, I do not know which country you are from and I do not know how, why and where you are learning Russian, but back in the day the question of whether the Russian cursive is real or not did not even make any sense because writing in cursive was the norm.So why do it and why teach the kids how to do it?Back in the day it was thought that in connecting the hand-bone to the brain-bone there is a tangible positive benefit for the overall development of a child - the development of the micro-motorics, the patience and stamina, the sense of balance and aesthetics, the sense of beauty, paying attention, checking for, noticing and correcting errors, processing, memorizing, internalizing and comprehending the material and so on.We were taught how to write in cursive with the good old quill and/or fountain pens:with ink:Our notebooks had the light gray silhouette of the letters preprinted and we, first, traced over them and then we wrote the letters without any guidance or help:You had to learn how to not pick up too much ink with the quill pen or how to not move the piston of a fountain pen too deep inside the containing cylinder.And if you messed up and made an ink blot then we had this special paper called promokashka, which is a singular feminine for blotting paper.If I were asked to jot something down in Russian these days then I would mechanically do it in cursive with zero effort - such is the power of the habit.The bottom line here is this: choose the right tool for the right job and do know how to use each tool properly.

As a Marine Corps Recruiter, I ran into Many future Marines that have faced just what you are going through.At 17 you will need your parents permission—they will need to sign for you—or you can just wait until you are 18. I only ever had one guy who’s parents were that rigid.Ok, here is what you can start doing. Load your Bedroom with Marine Corps posters and such.YOU ALSO HAVE A POWERFUL TOOL IN THE INTERNET. We didn’t have that in 1989. Use you-tube videos of positive aspects of becoming a Marine.Be Prepared to answer the Negative aspects also.Death. That is the Number one parental objection. No parent ever want their Son or Daughter to DIE.Google the Military deaths 2018. What this kind of research reveals is that 18–25 year old males are about 6 to 10 times more likely to die in a motor-vehicle accident than in a shooting war.Ask your parents Why they object to you enlisting and then LISTEN without arguing. You OWE your parents your listening ear. Yet, you do not owe them your career choice. Again, LISTEN to your parents without arguing—for now you are still 16.Start addressing their objections one at a time, over a period of time.Do your math—do your research—be accurate—be fair.If you haven’t done so already, go visit the local recruiter(s) during their weekly High School Visits—or in their office.If you can get your parents into a recruiting office—or in front of a Marine, even better.Stop in the recruiting office and tell them that you are going to be a Marine. Ask for a poster, some stickers, a t-shirt, or iron on emblems..etc… Take home all of the recruiting handouts / handbills that you can get. Get the one called Job opportunities in the Marines Corps (or whatever they are calling it now) Leave it laying where your parents can find it, without being overly obnoxious/obvious about it.Do you want to read material that is just Shoved at you? Perhaps not so much—BUT, it is interesting to pick up something you just FIND and read it, eh?Leave a constantly new array of Marine Corps material next to the crapper your dad uses.Find out from the recruiters about any events in your area such as Silent Drill team, Marine Corps band appearances, or any events where there will be a Marine Color Guard Detail. Somehow get your Parents to attend those events.Ask the recruiters if they have any videos you can take home, or any links that you can email to your parents. They are your parents—you ARE Allowed to Spam them..lolStart hanging around the recruiting office and attending the DEP (Delayed Entry Program) meetings.Keep in Mind that Marine Corps Recruiters Work long hours and are on the Hunt for those that can Join NOW. If a recruiter seems dis-interested in you at first, that is why. Don’t be put off. Don’t feel Butt-hurt. There is a fair chance that the first recruiter that you meet will no longer be there once you are 17, or 18 and shipping off.What happens eventually, is that you and your recruiter arrange an in home Visit with your parents, and ask for a signature on the parental Consent forms. Sometimes parents will arrange a visit to the recruiting office.Here is a counter-intuitive tidbit for you; The more vocally objectionable the parent(s) — The easier that they are to convince. (This is also true of girls that turn you down…shhhhhhhh…Only Marines know these things….lol)If you are so sure that you want to be a United States Marine, then it is time for you to start doing a few things:~Plant the seed (s) with your parents.~SHOW your parents that you are mature enough to make this kind of Adult decision.~Have REAL answers for their concerns…Do your homework.~If you get good grades—then keep that up. If you have CRAP grades, then you fix that, beginning right now! Private Cowles II~Get your body in shape, or increase your physical fitness. ASK your recruiter or find a list on line of the “daily 7” calisthenics —and do them. Increase your counts as you progress. Keep a log-book to mark your progress. Do not hurry—do full and complete sets. You can hurry when it is time for your daily (3–4X week) run. My best results were 3 days of distance running -1 day rest—and one day of sprint intervals—then 2 days total run rest. Rinse/repeat.~Avoid Drugs and druggie people lifestyle. Those losers are not your friends. They will only drag you down—Misery Loves Company!~Get an ASVAB (Armed Force Vocational Aptitude Battery) Test study guide or booklet. Work the problems—learn the test questions. This test is like an SAT or ACT test. High School Juniors and Seniors are offered this test at school every year. Sign up for it. See your recruiter or High School guidance counselor about that.This is how you convince your parents—you will need to show them that you are responsible and mature enough to make this decision.I hope that my response has helped you Brandon. Feel free to friend me on Face Book.Gary SmithSergeant of US MarinesRaymore MO