my first russian class hello there, today i had my first russian class and i learned the basics of the alphabet... the past two days i took arabic classes and today russian because i wish to learn a language with a different alphabet than my own, i noticed that although my teacher(Svetlana) told me that my pronounciation was good it seemed way harder to remember the sounds of specific letters because of their written similarities with the alphabet i know but such different sounds from what i know... the overlap of the two language will cause some delay in the initial learning curve and may cause some confusion but it seems doable with practice. on the other hand, arab is 100% new symbols which simply need to be associated with the sounds... this makes it easier than russian in my opinion. This has brought me to think that maybe japanese is easier than i thought... i will soon expose myself to that and comment on it.