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Originally Posted by kacir
Here I have to disagree with you.
Greek alphabet is something different than, let's say Russian Azbuka.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly, learning a language which uses an alphabet that you're already familiar with is easier, but a "strange" alphabet needn't prove an obstacle for language learning for the majority of people. Of course, learning to read and write non-alphabetic languages (Chinese, Japanese, etc) is a different "kettle of fish" altogether!
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I think it depends greatly from person to person. When I was in Bulgaria a couple of months ago, I picked up the cyrillic alphabet quite easily in a couple of days, and I was able to read all the signs etc... rather fluently. However, my travelling partner had a much harder time understanding these strange symbols and was surprised that I got the hang of it that quickly.
However, I took an evening course in Chinese for one year, and I found the characters a lot harder to learn.