Re: General Interest: Reading Arabic isn't easy

2010/9/1 Barbara Landis <magistralatina <at> gmail.com>:
> I agree. I had only two years of Arabic as an undergraduate and although I
> was initially intimidated by the script, I found it surprisingly easy to
> pick up once I began my studies.

And honestly, isn't it bizarre to take Arabic as the sample language
to explore whether  "graphic complexity" has neurological effects that
make reading acquisition harder in comparison to English?  Wouldn't
Chinese make a much clearer sample language for this purpose?

Colin