Bonjour!

I started "French for Reading Knowledge" this morning. The professor looked like the quintessential French professor. I was a little surprised that almost everyone else seemed to have a couple of years of French already, but figure any language where the word for "longevity" is "longevite" can't be that bad. As an undergrad, I taught myself Latin to the end of the old "Gray and Jenkins" textbooks in the QU library, and as a grad student I learned to handle Arabic. I refuse to wimp out in the face of French. Bring it on, monsieurs!