New alphabets are a huge barrier to overcome in learning a language. I studied Japanese at the college level for two years and never could keep the kana straig

New alphabets are a huge barrier to overcome in learning a language. I studied Japanese at the college level for two years and never could keep the kana straight. (Kanji are a lost cause for me as well). I forget Cyrillic pronunciations all the time and my head gets jammed by things like P meaning R. My lips have to move while reading. But in every Latin-script language I have worked on it has been a non-issue for this native English speaker. It would take a while to learn to read in rot13. Now, add in that I am learning the language, and learning Spanish in rot13 would be hard for me.