While King of Dragon Pass is easy to learn how to play, it's hard to learn to play it well.

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LetterMpress is easy to learn and to use, and allows you to choose from a surprising variety of typefaces, blocks, and a wide range of paper styles to create your letterpress masterpieces.

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Input is accomplished using a shorthand handwriting recognition system, Graffiti, which is accurate and easy to learn.

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With touch mice and touchpads, you have to learn new gestures, but the Touch Pen is almost as easy as using your finger.

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In fact, providing employees with easy and obvious ways to learn faster together and from each other is proving to be one of the most successful approaches for companies to stay competitive and spur employee esprit de corps.

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Mindstorms uses an easy-to-learn (yet plenty powerful) icon-based programming language, which is loosely based around Logo, an educational language developed at MIT's media lab.

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Plus, there is a lack of apprentices willing to learn the time-intensive trades, with one artisan bluntly admitting that there is no easy money in making handcrafted goods.

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