A quick study of some language reference docs and a few examples should be all you need to get started.
The general rules are easy to learn. But to be productive you also need to know about environments (IDE etc.), available libraries and their usage (which already differ between Delphi and Lazarus), bugs (and their workarounds) and OS dependencies and maybe even need to have lots of own code which you can reuse. So only getting the basics of a language is not enough IMO. And then it *does* matter whether you are used to program in a certain language (on a certain OS) or not.
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