I can't learn Greek. Honestly, I have tried time and time again. I've never really been much of a language person but I don't remember having this much trouble with French or German at school, and that was not only without any genuine interest but also without the advantage of living in those countries. It has nothing to do with the different alphabet - I got that part fine, in fact I'd managed to learn the Greek script almost completely during one long bus journey in London before I moved. And with Greek being a phonetic language, that means I can read all the Greek words around me and know how they should be pronounced (mostly). But that doesn't seem to help at all. It's not just the complicated grammar that I'm having trouble with either - I can't even get to a point where correct grammar is vaguely relevant!