Has anyone tried learning another launguage

I will say that when learning a new language, the single most important thing is to learn how to pronounce the alphabet in the new language. And in many cases it also mean learning how to read and write new letters if the new language have letters not used in the English language.
Without being at least fairly fluent in the alphabet, everything will be a struggle. Once that is solved, things will come a lot easier. This is just my experience, being bi-tri-lingual.