Serious and important question

Its hard when you are learning something for the first time, and it sounds cliche. But in all honesty, practice, practice and then practice. Repetition is the key. Unfortunately with things like coding there are no short cuts.

Try not to beat yourself up to much. Even though the course may have an hour figure associated with it, that doesn't mean you are going to learn that language in that time. I'd times the value by 10 to get a more realistic figure.

Eventually you will have that light bulb moment and things will start making more sense.

thanks for your answer

The key is to not think of it as learning all of the words. Instead it is all about learning how to think as a programmer. Once this is done, the only difference between the different programming languages, is syntax, which will become easier and easier the more you program.

This is also why I would recommend starting out with python, because it let's you try out your ideas in a very readable way. (Some people might disagree with me on this, and it is my subjective opinion)