How to learn languages with non-Latin alphabets?
pg: What makes it so hard is that you can't recognize words as words so easily.  You have to decode them letter by letter.  I studied classical Arabic in college, and at the end of a year I could only recognize a couple hundred words as words.I doubt there's any solution besides practice.  Perhaps you could optimize practice by making flashcards of the most common words and training yourself to recognize them quickly.