I was watching this video and she says that quatre pronounce as "cat". Also vingt pronounce as "va" and vingt et un pronounce without et. But this webbpage says that quatre pronounce as qatre and... More on french.stackexchange.com

Saint Tropez doesn't really have great swimming beaches, its really more about seeing huge yachts (and maybe celebrities). It's a little overrated imo, but its something to see. If you are looking for a nice quiet beach to relax on, then I'd probably skip it. If you are looking for an old port town to walk thru with some impressive yachts in the harbor then I would check it out. More on reddit.com

If you're dedicated, I would say "Yes". Language learning can roughly be broken down into four aspects: Writing Competence Reading Competence Oral Comprehension Oral Production Since you're from the States, you'll have the entire summer, and therefore the time to do this. So you need to work on the 4 categories above. My recommendation is to set discrete goals of things you need to accomplish every week. So what should you do? Dedicate at least 30 minutes per day to listening to French and nothing else. Look for Podcasts, or Watch France24. Avoid TV shows at the Start. This needs to be combined with learning Vocabulary, so dedicate at least 30 minutes to building your vocabulary too. An easy way to do this is Memrise. When you hear a word you've learned in your Vocab outside of a lesson, it'll stick to you like glue. Work on your grammar. My recommendation is LawLess French. It's worth it to buy the 3 month package. It's 1/2 of two things I paid for to learn French and the only one without a significant discount. I paid for it twice, no regrets. Every time you get something wrong, write the entire sentence out. Every time you don't know a verb, write out the conjugation for that tense. Yes, this sucks, but your French will skyrocket. I promise you. Read a book a week. Start with easy stuff. Le Petit Nicholas is really good for starting. Avoid Le Petit Prince, it's actually difficult for a beginner. Alternatively, find an article in French and read one each day. Lawless French puts out a lot of free stuff with direct English translation. Fight to understand the sentences without using the translation quickly. You don't know a word or phrase? Throw it into a Memrise or Anki set that you build yourself. Whatever you do, find stuff that interests you. Oral production will be the hardest to develop. You're going to suck, you're going to make faults, it's going to be hard. Accept that, and you'll be grand. Look for partners on Italki, or what is really better, come on the r/French discord. Don't be afraid. There will be people who will help you if you are serious about it/ ( I was about to list all of them and then my list got to long. Look for El Barto, he's awesome for beginners). Also, trying listening to songs and singing them if that's your thing. Or, try saying sentences that you hear in podcasts or television. It'll come. Work on learning the sounds of French. Not all of them exist in English. You're going to need to be able to hear them in order to speak correctly. [Here is a really good resource.] ( https://www.youtube.com/user/frenchsounds/playlists ) Don't be afraid of repeating lessons. Doing a video once is not going to help you. Doing it multiple times in one day won't work either. This is a big one, and will help you with keeping on top of things. Find MOOC ( online courses) for learning French. [Here is one for B1-B2 level.] ( https://www.coursera.org/learn/etudier-en-france/home/welcome ). The next session starts June 12. It might be worth the $49 investment so you can partake in the quizzes, that's really where you're going to be doing the learning, not by watching the videos. You can always apply for Financial Aid. There are other courses, you have to look for them. Don't give up. It's going to be hard. It's going to get easy, then hard, then easy, then hard. Some days, things will click. Other days, they won't and it'll feel like swimming through concrete. Generally you'll get better. The more time you spend in the Discord, typing, reading, speaking and understanding, the better you will get. I'm sure I left some stuff out. This might seem like a whole lot of material to digest, so if you have questions do ask. More on reddit.com

Yeah, walk through any Canadian city and that becomes apparent.

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