Why am I doing this?

When it comes to speaking another language, knowing the right pronunciation is important to me. Some people like to learn pre-fabricated French sentences by heart and repeat them. My mind is more inquisitive; I like to know the why’s and how’s – that way I feel more confident. So when I learned in my French linguistic classes that there were only 37 sounds in French and that the majority of these sounds were used in English, I thought that Anglophones would not find French so difficult if they knew that.