I expect that learning to read (and write) K is a lot like learning regular expressions. I don&#x27;t know K, but regular expressions are eminently useful in everyday life, so I&#x27;ve had the experience of learning to casually read and write them.<p>It&#x27;s a lot like learning any new language, and probably spoken languages are a better comparison than programming languages.<p>At first, you have trouble even differentiating boundaries between words, but as you gain experience, your brain extracts the features as units. You begin to see units directly, which gives context that assists in reading component characters, whereas before you&#x27;d have to first labor through each character individually to construct the context.