I use both methods, it's fun to type Cyrillic letters using my Russian keyboard but I also practice writing for me to learn the language effectively. I wanna train my brain to write in an alphabet- other than the Latin alphabet. So far, it helps using a pen and writing Russian on a notebook/on paper. I admit that my "б" sucks when I'm writing it myself- I should practice it some more

Once one of the members here wrote this description about his handwriting in another discussion related to handwriting: "My handwriting (cursive, or running writing) is unreadable even to me.  I think the only way I can read it is by remembering what I was thinking when I scrawled that mess."
My situation is exactly the same. :)
I think when God wanted to create us, I mean those whose handwriting is terrible, made sure that we had a reliable memory. :)

I use handwriting for language learning because of the reason you mentioned. I do believe too that this way, the information remain much longer in my memory.  I write down the sentences I find useful in a notebook. When I was more active here, I was in habit of reading the comments below discussions. There were plenty of the sentences that I always wanted to say but didn't know how. 

Needless to say, it's necessary to review them but it's tough since it seems boring to the brain to repeat things. It makes it easier and more interesting when I use pens of different colors. 

Like Ananda, nothing really worked for me better than handwriting in law school! Even though my studies were in my native language “Arabic”, but without writing things down manually I couldn’t really memorize and memorizing for law studies and exams is very essential.

Right now I also use handwriting in all my notes and exercises in Spanish and it helps a lot in my learning process and in remembering things in general.

I use handwriting in Arabic and English in my daily life when I want to write down things that I need to do, or even things I’m considering to do in the near future but still thinking about them.

@Mohammadreza, I knew I would see you on this discussion 😂

@Miriam and Spangola, I’m really glad you both are trying with Arabic one more time 😃

Here is a note to the three of you 🍀

<a href="https://www.italki.com/entry/973302">https://www.italki.com/entry/973302</a>;