Learning an alphabet is easy

I studied Russian at school. People often say, &ldquo;Wow, Russian, that must be so hard, with the different alphabet and all.&rdquo; I think this reveals that they&rsquo;re thinking wrongly about learning a language. I think this wrongness is instructive. Learning a language is a really, really big deal. But you can memorise the Cyrillic alphabet in an hour&rsquo;s work. You could probably master…