[Jugurtha]

>For someone learning Arabic the letters are the first of many challenging steps.

Exactly, for most other languages as well. I only needed flashcards with Hebrew (as an Arabic speaker, I only needed to remember shapes because sounds are similar). To learn Cyrillic was more figuring out what changes and connecting it to Greek alphabet (р is rho, г is gamma, д is delta, п is pi, etc).

Transliteration for most languages is just another layer of complexity in my opinion given the tiny amount of time I needed to acquire alphabet (the letters, not Google's parent company).

Here's something I started. Need to get back to that:

https://github.com/jhadjar/Language-Acquisition