Why learing English is difficult for me I think there aren't many differences between Russian and English languages. Russian is learnt by me for over thirty years. I speak, write, think in it every day. I've learnt the grammar through all the school. So the result is I know Russian better than English. But what are about difficulties in your English, you may ask. I've recognized that I doubt / difficult in distinguishing words. Why is that? Because I have different sounds in my language. Those aren't so different but there is not a huge contrast between sounds in English and Russian. And it misleads me. The most important thing, I've noticed, is a frequency of using each of sound. My mind reject to accept that I should use "u" instead "ʊ" and other such things. Because the using frequency of those are low in Russian. We have many combinations of same sounds in Russian but they meet rare in Russian is often in English and vise-versa / upside down. I haven't caught totally yet how the spelling connected /conjugated with the pronunciation. I've just figured out some rules. In Russian you can read by syllables and you may sure that all correct. But we have floating stresses in the words. I really don't know they are floating or stable. All that I know that I feel it and if I meet unknown word I can be sure that I stressed / make the stress in it) it correct. That I like in English grammar is each word type definites its place in the sentence. But it confuses me sometimes because some words can be a verb but other can't. May be my thoughts is not clear on this moment because I am a human and a starter of learning English. But there are some insights that come to me and I hope they will help me improve my English and won't interfere / disturb / break my progress.