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Re:Show HN: Eskéndereyya – Learn How to Read and Write Arabi... by roywiggins on Saturday December 17, 2016 @01:30PM (#13201748)
Same here, but in college. Got the Cyrillic alphabet in a couple weeks but it was by far the easiest part of a very difficult semester.

I switched to French.

Re:Show HN: Eskéndereyya – Learn How to Read and Write Arabi... by TomMarius on Sunday December 18, 2016 @10:23AM (#13206084)
I've learnt azbuka purely from our national TV news (in central Europe), during the course of a year, and I was not trying at all - one day I realized I could read the sentence they showed (even though I couldn't understand it).