I am not saying they couldn't be made with those languages, but I was able to make them easily and quickly with Laz+FPC. I have not produced loads of software but I've achieved more in the last year using Lazarus and Free Pascal than I ever did with any other language - Python and Delphi included! I can easily create cross-platform GUI's that run on all OS'es with powerful procedures that I couldn't make with Python and\or Delphi. They all say to me that once you learn and are good at the fundamentals of a while loop, a for loop, and so on, applying that to a new language is easy enough. I know many skilled programmers who can and do use a multitude of languages - C, C++, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, Delphi and so on.
Mine for what it's worth, is that learning a language and more specifically HOW to program is the most important aspect. There's already lots of views on this so take your pick. I agree with Kico The delphi starter edition is not expensive. There is some brief description of the differences on Wikipedia. The base languages are also almost identical, but I would expect to find some strange differences. Delphi has true support for packages, whereas lazarus rebuilds and relinks itself in order to add more "designtime components" to itself.
Installation of packages works completely differently too. So your learning of Lazarus would be somewhat transferable to the now-ancient version Delphi 7, but wouldn't be of much use in knowing your way around the delphi IDE. The IDE for Lazarus is similar in many ways to the Delphi 7 IDE (and older versions) and looks nothing at all, and works nothing at all, like modern Delphi IDE versions. As a means of learning Delphi programming, this seems to me to be the biggest shortcoming. The component library for lazarus, the LCL is similar in many ways, to the VCL library for Delphi, but there are differences, the biggest being the many components in the VCL that are not in lazarus.
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