Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Latin-based

Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by kbenson on Friday April 27, 2018 @01:38AM (#16938665)

Sure, but the catch-22 is that most people won't have a good idea how to assess the difficulty of learning a language until they've tried, and it seems different people have different difficulties with the process. From the outside at the beginning, the different alphabet seems like quite a big deal.

Thats how it feels to me at least when I think about learning another language. It's a data point of one, but I don't think I'm that unique in this.

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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by Fins on Friday April 27, 2018 @03:19AM (#16939010)

I'm not sure if most people start learning languages just because they seem "easy" either. There has to be some reason.

And once you do start, something like differences between analytic and synthetic languages probably would be more of a tripping point.

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