Peux-je parler francais? S'il-vous plait?

I wish that I was actually fluent in a language. So bad.

And unfortunately, I feel like the classes that I'm in are really a waste or  of time, and they will never let me achieve my goal. I always translate stuff in my head, to try and see how much I actually know, and after two and a half years of French, I still can't really carry on a conversation.

It makes me sad.

I understand some basic rules, but then others I've completely forgotten. The system of teaching is rather ineffective. We will learn something, like direct/indirect object pronouns and their placement, but then not do anything with it for a year. So when we need to go back and use them or the reflexive or another like concept, we no longer remember how to use it.

So, in most cases, I just end up altering what I really wanted to say to fit the simpler form of the things that I actually can say.

I wish that I wasn't in school, and that travel wasn't so expensive, so that I could just go live in France for a month and learn my French. Or the same with Italy.

I've been trying to teach myself Italian, and although I haven't been able to put as much time toward it as I would like to in the past few weeks, I feel like I'm learning much more efficiently than I do in my French classes. Which is pathetic.

I know that my teachers can speak French. I know that they know the rules and all of the different ways of saying things.

Now can they pass that on to me? Please? Because being incapable of carrying on a decent conversation with more than the basic language is driving me crazy.

J'aime les langues. Maintenant, apprends-moi à leur parler. 


Anybody know somebody who speaks another language? French? Italian? Send them my way.


I'm begging you.