I do not agree about French being the most beautiful language in the world. As far as I'm concerned, the language the most beautiful is a myth because each language is unique and has its own beauty just like us, the humain being. And for your second question, just as everyone has his strong point and weak point, each language has something simple and something difficult in it. I can't say that French is one of the hardest languages in the world since that I do not know all the languages in the world (I think nobody do, the very multilingual that I know speaks 20 language. I can only say that French is more complicated than English. Concerning my Frenche learning, I recognize that it was not easy for me when I started to learn it. There are many reasons for that : firstly, compared with Chinese, the French falls within a totally different language system. Its grammar is just like something of mathematic (well, German is worse... ), the conjugation do not exist in Chinese etc. However, it becomes easier once it becomes familier to you and in fact this is the something for all language learning. And just like French, other languages have somenthing diffcult for its learners too, for instance the Chinese or Arabic character... Thank you !