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i want to learn French.

Well, lucky you!.. Because I want to forget it.. but to no avail ! :-)

French was the second foreign language that came along with my formal education years. English was the third.

Pronunciation is so dang hard. Also writing it using English alphabet. I dont see much similarity with English there.

The French alphabet and the English alphabet have similarities because they are both Latin alphabets, based on Latin script/alphabet.

The 2 languages (in their phonetic form) however are different: the first has its roots in Latin while the second is Germanic.

To my ears (and this is subjective indeed) and among latin-based languages, French is far more appealing than let's say Spanish or Portuguese or even Italian --may be others will disagree but to me it's a FACT!

I agree though that French pronunciation is too hard if the learning wasn't done early on during one's childhood. One can pick it up to near Parisian accent if the kid is exposed to it that early.

i want to learn French. To anyone here has gone through the process, could you please give me some pointers ?

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Any help will be appreciated.

Nothing compares to total immersion among the natives after studying it for awhile. That's to me the only pragmatic way to master it.