I am a native French speaker. French is hard even for people who speak it on a daily basis. I am neither a linguist nor an historian (so google it and find re

I am a native French speaker. French is hard even for people who speak it on a daily basis. I am neither a linguist nor an historian (so google it and find reliable sources for more information) but AFAIK, it was designed and reformed to be an "elitist" language (for political reasons), there are gazillions of special cases that do not make any sense (both in the written and spoken language) and there are heated debates about what should be kept or removed (in the perspective of teaching it for instance).