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Originally Posted by AlfonsVH
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.
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Having had a fair amount of experience in language learning with lots of different people, the key thing, I think, is to find the learning method that works for you. Some people can learn from simply reading, some (including me) have to write things down in order to make them "stick", others learn through listening or reciting words.
With myself, for example, I can read vocabulary lists until the cows come home and still they don't "stick". But write something out a few times, and it's soon memorised.
We all have different methods of learning - people need to find out what works for them as an individual.