text: if you found latin easy to learn, how hard would you find learning other languages? specifically, russian and italian. congrats on your success with latin.  70% of the western indo-european languages are based on latin.    which means that all languages that were native to the european continent in times past are mostly derivative from the latin language.  that to say, italian is immersed in the latin language. so is the french.  russian is less so but i don't know a lot about the origin of russian but it probably has more eastern influence than italian.  eastern languages (e.g., chinese, korean, japanese, hebrew, etc.) are more based in pictographic language forms (or pictures).  these are far from the latin base of languages.