Studing a second language is not an easy thing to do. Especially when you have a are prone to think things backward. I have been told that the english language is backward from most all of the other languages around the world. I know that I have seen in the french how the adjectives are used in an oposite form from english. This made learning the french all the more difficult for me. However I have been able to teach myself to read french. When it comes to listening to french or speaking it I still stumble a great deal. The asset I have gained in reading french has been so great to my research though. I gbve been able to read the marriage records that are written in french and discern who the parents are and sometimes the parents birthdays are also listed. The one probalem I think will never have a solution to is a persons hand writing. Yes my friends even in the days old they were in too much of a rush to write legibly.