Learning to Speak French

The company I'm going to be working for offers free french lessons, but we would like to get a headstart so we've been taking lessons online using a website called Duolingo.

Duolingo is great, and it's free to use. Melanie and I have been doing the lessons every day and we felt like we have been making really good progress.

Until we heard someone speaking French today... and didn't understand a single word. We didn't expect to understand what the person was saying, but we figured we'd be able to pick out a few new words. Nope. Nada. I think I heard an "avec" (which means "with") but I can't be sure.

Of course, the more we learn the more we realize how much we don't know yet. This is going to be hard. I'm reminded of an old Steve Martin line: