I've noticed that sometimes there's a pretty substantial difference between the way a character looks in a typewritten or onscreen font and the way it looks when someone casually writes it down by hand -- sort of like the difference between block letters and cursive in English, I suppose. With the exception of one software package (Easy Chinese Tutor) all the learning materials I've seen deal exclusively with perfectly-formed typeset characters. I very often find it next to impossible to read a handwritten character I'd recognize instantly in printed form.
If PlecoDict had a "cursive Chinese" font, that'd be a big help. Especially if I could tell it to use that font for particular flashcard lists (so I could track my progress with handwritten characters separately from my progress with printed ones.) Does such a font even exist?
Barring that, anyone have any good resources for learning to read handwritten Chinese characters aside from constantly asking people what they just wrote?
If PlecoDict had a "cursive Chinese" font, that'd be a big help. Especially if I could tell it to use that font for particular flashcard lists (so I could track my progress with handwritten characters separately from my progress with printed ones.) Does such a font even exist?
Barring that, anyone have any good resources for learning to read handwritten Chinese characters aside from constantly asking people what they just wrote?