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Originally Posted by 3catcircus
For westerners, *any* language that uses "squiggly lines" instead of the familiar alphabet is going to be doubly hard.
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That's a good point. All of the game systems that I'm familiar with (admittedly, not a large number) don't differentiate between understanding/speaking a language and being able to read/write and/or understand written language. If the written language uses the same alphabet as the learner's own language, then the skill difference is probably negligible (assuming the user is functional literate in his/her own language) but, as you point out, if the written language is different (different alphabet, ideographs instead of phonograms, etc.), then it's almost an entirely different skill.
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