From a first glance, it does seem hard, so even though it is on my list, it is probably going to just sit for awhile.
I haven't tried non-Western alphabets yet, though I am familiar with lots of accented letters. I would love to learn something like Russian or Arabic or Greek, but I'm not sure how well my brain will do. Something to see at a later date.
Interesting that you can handle runes but not foreign aplhabets. Maybe you picked up the runes earlier enough for them to make sense? Brains can be sooo weird (but also cool.)
On a somewhat related tangent: I looked at the top five people in my Diamond League (I'm currently 6th), and there are 4 monoglots (3 Spanish, 1 Chinese), and the leader who is essentially a monoglot (over 50,000XP in English, less than 50XP in Korean and Italian). And there I am with 8 languages, 3 of which I'm actively working on.
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Date: 2020-08-12 04:43 pm (UTC)I haven't tried non-Western alphabets yet, though I am familiar with lots of accented letters. I would love to learn something like Russian or Arabic or Greek, but I'm not sure how well my brain will do. Something to see at a later date.
Interesting that you can handle runes but not foreign aplhabets. Maybe you picked up the runes earlier enough for them to make sense? Brains can be sooo weird (but also cool.)
On a somewhat related tangent: I looked at the top five people in my Diamond League (I'm currently 6th), and there are 4 monoglots (3 Spanish, 1 Chinese), and the leader who is essentially a monoglot (over 50,000XP in English, less than 50XP in Korean and Italian). And there I am with 8 languages, 3 of which I'm actively working on.