The first part resonate a lot with me. I wanted to learn Russian (because why not ?), I intuitively thought the Cyrillic alphabet would be the hardest part of all, like it&#x27;s another alphabet and you can&#x27;t read anything right ? Sounds really difficult...<p>Actually it&#x27;s the easiest part of the language because it&#x27;s 99% phonetic with some few exceptions, the whole alphabet is in reality quite small and it was actually easier to learn how to read Russian than reading English. The hard part is actually more the grammar (with those cases) and the vocabulary more than the reading itself. I still have a very basic level but the alphabet part took like only 4 hours maybe to remember them all.<p>But it&#x27;s also the same when coding, the hard parts are not always where I expect them to be.