Some scripts are surprisingly easy to pick up. If anyone is interested in the Japanese scripts (hiragana/katakan), this book[1] will truly teach them to you in 6 hours, total. I started reading it, and thought it moronic, but as I started writing a review of why it sucked, I realised that I could recall everything perfectly...

1: http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Kana-Reading-Japanese-Syll...