Learning French

I may be moving soon. Unfortunately the country I may be moving to speaks foreign languages. Therefore, I'm pretending to learn French. I've got to say learning French has been much easier than the 'Learning Mandarin' escapade, but its still learning a whole other language.

Luckily, I studied a little French in secondary school. Unfortunately the only lasting memory was during End of Year Orals. I answered one of my teacher's questions with a confident 'Je ne sais pas' (I don't know) to which she chuckled and later told me at least it was in French. I considered that a win.

French is a lovely language, but I'm doubtful if I'll ever get the accent. Most of the words just seem to flow into each other, so I'm never really sure when one begins and another ends. Some conjugations of words are spelt very differently but sound exactly the same. Then there are some words I'm certain I'm pronouncing correctly but my computer gives me a sad error noise every time I say them. According to Rosetta Stone I will never be able to ask where my newspaper is, because I will never be able to pronounce 'le journal'. Worse case scenario I learn how to say Hello and everyone around me will assume I'm polite but retarded.