Learning a foreign language is super hard. I don’t know if that’s news to you, but it was kind of a shock for me. Since I had never really studied a language before (save one year of Spanish in high school and an embarrassing few months in South America), I had some foolish ideas about how long it should take me to learn French here. Long story short? Five years and counting.

Below is a collection of stories about this eye opening, often humiliating, yet mostly fun experience.

• September 2014: Where I’m At
• How the Brain is Badly Wired
• Fun with Rosetta Stone
• Embarrassing Embrasses
• Class #1 in the French Riviera
• Immersion Controversy
• Class #2 in Quebec, or, Didn’t You Already Learn French?
• French French vs Canadian French
• The Fluent in 3 Months guy and other Polyglot Jerks
• Foolish Dinner Party Hosting and the Expat Bubble
• Class #3 in Provence, or, Am I Fluent Yet?? TBD

(The second half is a work in progress, links will be active once published)

Plus two bonus stories:

• Paris: City of Change (a thank you letter to my Mom on her birthday)
• Church Hopping (in honor of my Dad, for Father’s Day)