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You're just backing up the stereotype of an English speaker unfortunately. Cyrilic is extremely easy to learn, you can do it in under an hour, and even in Russ
by disordinary 8y ago
You're just backing up the stereotype of an English speaker unfortunately.
Cyrilic is extremely easy to learn, you can do it in under an hour, and even in Russia most places that tourists interact will have latin and cyrilic versions of the same text (on the metro, etc).
Countries like China are tougher to travel in, but it's not exactly difficult.
- emodendroket 8y ago> Countries like China are tougher, but it's not exactly difficult. Uh, no, that's definitely wrong. Learning Chinese script is a very difficult and time-consuming task. Literacy in Japanese requires about 2,000 characters; literacy in Chinese requires about 5,000.
- disordinary 8y agoI mean difficuilt to get around as a tourist - of course I didn't mean learn the glyphs, I've backpacked across China and, yes, if you're looking for a particular street you have to compare it carefully, you're making out the shapes as a picture rather than reading it like a language, but it's not that hard. I modified my comment to better reflect the intention.
- yosito 8y agoI speak three languages. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯