French

This clip from Paris, Je t'aime always makes me feel a little sad. 16 years ago I took my first French class (that makes me feel so very aged!) and ever since then I have wanted, at times desperately, to visit Paris. I took French classes throughout middle school, high school, and college followed by brief attempts at adult education courses in the evenings more recently.

In the past year I've worked my way through half of this:

But I want to organize a more formal plan for my French studies and then, of course, actually follow through with it. In terms of travel, I seem to be stuck in an endless pattern of "maybe next year" but maybe I'll mean it this time.

Here are some other resources I'm thinking about working with:
More Grammar Review Books~
I bought both of these books in the last few months:

French in Action~

Thanks to my lovely sister we have all of the episodes & I do love watching Robert :)

Online listening & grammar programs/resources~

Listen to French
Carnegie Mellon OLI French courses

Watching more French films~

I need to get more of these into my netflix queue:

And I really want to buy these two:

French Newspapers, TV news, magazines~

I was sick of paying for and not reading the magazines I subscribed to, Point de Vue & Marie Claire Idees, but I have tons of back issues I could start reading. And I used to pick news articles to print out and read from Le Figaro and Le Monde as well. France 24 looks good for listening as well.

French books/audiotapes~

I ordered the first Claudine story in print and audio book from chapters in Canada last fall as well as Twilight in print & audio. I'm mixing my high brow and low brow here. And I wish I could find more French music that I like enough to play frequently.

Alliance Francaise or Community College~

I started taking a night conversation class a year ago but then got pneumonia and dropped out. See why being a public school teacher is a dangerous job? I need to try again. And I need to get brave enough to venture to the Alliance Francaise as well.

Subscribe to Champs-Elyssees~

I'e always been curious about this program but never curious enough to pay for it.

At some point (realistically when school is out in June) I want to make a cohesive plan and hopefully start making more progress.