Yes and no. There are complex rules around joining letters depending on where they fall in the words. Also there are no vowels but sometimes there are vowel markers.
I meant that if you know Hebrew, Arabic, or Hindu, learning the Latin alphabet is a lot easier than learning Chinese characters. And Latin user will probably find Arabic easier than Chinese too, even though the Latin alphabet is a bit simpler than Arabic.
It also depends a lot on the language. There are dozens of languages that use the same core Latin characters plus a few decorators. Someone coming from a strongly inflected, gendered language trying to learn English is going to struggle compared to trying to learn Spanish or French.
