Agreed. I learned the Russian alphabet in a day - you learn the sounds for each symbol and you're done. It took a long time to speed up, of course, and i had th

Agreed. I learned the Russian alphabet in a day - you learn the sounds for each symbol and you're done. It took a long time to speed up, of course, and i had the background of already reading in English, but Spanish isn't Chinese or Japanese (or English for that matter).