Why is French so hard for me to learn? I can read English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Latin, Swahili, just fine.?

French, Spanish and Italian are all Romantic languages, so are very similar. Is it just reading, or speaking, comprehension and writing, too? Perhaps you need a different way of learning- Rosetta Stone and Babbel are two choices.

That's very odd. French is very similar in grammar and vocabulary to Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. It also shares a significant amount of vocabulary with English.

French evolved from Latin (although the grammar is quite different now). Most French vocabulary comes from Latin (but the Latin of the common people, which doesn't always match classical Latin).

The similarities between French and the above are more obvious in writing (the pronunciation can be quite different).

Reading French should be exceedingly easy for anyone who can read even just one of those similar languages, if you are studying French vocabulary and grammar. It is not similar enough to always be able to understand simply by knowing similar languages. Word order and structures can be quite different in specific situations (although not usually utterly unique as a whole), and a given word might be translated by a word coming from a different Latin root.

http://duolingo.com/ and http://french.about.com/ are two online resources, among many others.

duolingo - focuses on listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It establishes the basics, but is not a complete course. It also has a few flaws, but over all is a good supplemental resource.

about.com -- is more of a search engine for articles on French (and other languages). You can choose lessons or follow a set list (and even sign up for some sort of daily lessons list via e-mail, I believe). Most of the articles are thorough and flawless, very few flaws.

example:

My mother is seventy-six years old.

Italian: Mia madre ha settantasei anni.

French: Ma mère a soixante-seize ans. French lacks a word for seventy, so it is expressed as: 60-16. All the other words are related (but not always obvious at first glance). Word order is identical in this case. The pronunciation rules are very different.

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Certain people don't find it hard, it depends on people. Maybe you want to know to many languages at the same time ( ?? )...

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