Learning to read again

I'm currently taking Farsi classes, and it's very humbling because I'm like a child, learning a new alphabet and having to sound out words character by character until I finally start to automatically recognize them. And then I have to remember what those foreign words I've sounded out mean. But it's a fun challenge, and helps me take a hard look at all that I generally take for granted in reading and writing and appreciate how amazing language and writing are.

Has anyone else had a similar experience?

- L'Editrice