Bear in mind that there's distinct meanings to "cursive" -- the dictionary meaning that just refers to a writing style with the letters all connected, and a common American usage that refers to some very specific stylized letter-forms that often bear minimal resemblance to the print forms of the letters. The latter is fairly illegible if you haven't been taught it, I feel -- it winds up looking like a series of minimally differentiated squiggly lines.
As someone who was educated in the UK in the 90s I was taught what was just called "joined up writing", which was us being encouraged to connect up the normal print forms of the letters. I never had any exposure to the American style. It might possibly have a speed deficit compared to the American style (I'm not sure), but it does have a clear legibility advantage...
when i was a kid in india we called it "running hand", and yeah, it was pretty similar to print letters only joined, except a few letters like "r", "s" and "z". https://byjus.com/worksheets/cursive-letter-a-to-z/ is pretty close to the variant i learnt.
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HandwritingOfOneJohnJay(N...
As someone who was educated in the UK in the 90s I was taught what was just called "joined up writing", which was us being encouraged to connect up the normal print forms of the letters. I never had any exposure to the American style. It might possibly have a speed deficit compared to the American style (I'm not sure), but it does have a clear legibility advantage...