[umanwizard]

I studied Russian for one semester when I was in middle school. I didn't learn very much and can remember even less: only a few simple words like яблоко (yabloko -- "apple").

But I can still sound out words in the Cyrillic alphabet without any difficulty. Learning another alphabetic script really doesn't take that much time or effort.

[roywiggins]

Same here, but in college. Got the Cyrillic alphabet in a couple weeks but it was by far the easiest part of a very difficult semester.

I switched to French.

[TomMarius]

I've learnt azbuka purely from our national TV news (in central Europe), during the course of a year, and I was not trying at all - one day I realized I could read the sentence they showed (even though I couldn't understand it).

[intopieces]

Cyrillic is easy until you see it written in cursive :)