Like Italian and Spanish, French varies the verbs according to six cases and fourteen tenses. Each verb is different depending on Present, Future, Past, Perfect, Imperfect, Pluperfect and some more I can't recall right now combined with Singular and Plural versions of First and Second tense plus a special one for addressing people more respectfully than the verbs one used to address friends and family.
Fortunately there is a pattern of the verb endings except for the irregular verbs which are unique constructs. In Italian and Spanish most verbs are regular. Unfortunately in French about a third are irregular. Even more unfortunately the irregular include the most common of them.
Now add that all nouns have a gender. For example a table is female (obviously) and the nouns require gender specific prepositions ("le" for male and "elle" for female.
Other than these minor issues it is a simple language. @@