You have decided to spend your vacations in Quebec, Canada and thought that you would have the most beautiful vacation in a long time. You are also eager to practice your French while anticipating that most people in Quebec would speak French as well as English. You were told while learning French that Canada is a bilingual country with many people speaking both French and English.
To your astonishment, you quickly find out during a tour of Old Quebec that not everybody speaks English. As you venture into the province of Quebec, it is becoming more and more obvious that some remote places are totally French and at this point the language barrier is no longer a word but indeed a reality.
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I think that most readers would agree that being able to speak French is a desirable and worthwhile goal, and yet believe that it is a very difficult thing to achieve. I remember from my first visit to France, I could speak no French, nor indeed could any of the other people who traveled to France on the same tour as myself. The interesting thing was that a good percentage of the French people I met could speak at least some English.
It seems that in many English speaking countries knowing the French language or indeed any foreign language is regarded as unimportant and too much effort whereas on the continent many people speak at least one extra language. During the next few paragraphs I intend to persuade you that training yourself to speak French is desirable, important and with modern learning techniques it is not especially difficult to achieve
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