You say it when you talk about passion, languages, more over than anything, are based in the core of our brain as they use its two parts, right hemispehre for meaning and left one for letters, grammars..so they totally pervade our mind, Wittgenstein, Norvegian philosopher, considered as the greatest who ever was, with his treaty on languages linked to mathematics (which is utterly brilliant, he went into the woods to write it, listenning the birds, which sings, it's also music, like are languages), ever wrote that "Learning a new language is dicovering a new world". We should think, as language learners, us to be like the old explorers, who found new ylands by boats, with inhabitants speaking new languages to them..now we can do that instantly with the internet, plus fly there in one day at most if we feel too, we live in a magical world that never was possible before, so let's enjoy it!

My advice is to try to do so in focused units - like education, food over a dinner table, family, friends - you'll get a much broader coverage and learn better if it's chunked into units. Specific to French speakers, beware of the "z" ('s' in English), the "th" in English. Good luck!

Hey, Samer. I recommend you to change the settings of your cellphone, TV set and all devices that you use frequently. Something that I found truly helpful back when I started learning English was taking notes in English, -whatever I was going to do, I'd put it on a list: groceries, tasks, etc. I also recommend you to use Close Captioning (CC) on your favorite TV shows and memorize the lyrics of songs you really like; songs are a really useful and effective way of learning vocabulary since you will constantly use the same words and at the same time, you will be working on your pronunciation. Finally, I advise you to learn full sentences and practice your rhythm and intonation, that will be really good for when you're talking to someone.

Of course you can speak with a native English speaker who's learning French too, you just need the discipline not to switch whenever you want. You could agree that both of you speak French for a certain time (maybe 15 or 30 minutes) and then both switch to English for the same amount of time; that works quite well in my experience to give both partners some listening and speaking practice in the foreign language (but also some time to "relax" in the native one).