I'm 60+. I've just finished 8 months of French integration for adult immigrants in Québec in Gatineau (across the river from Ottawa). Five days per week, 6 hou

I'm 60+. I've just finished 8 months of French integration for adult immigrants in Québec in Gatineau (across the river from Ottawa). Five days per week, 6 hours per day for 40 weeks. My wife (francophone) loves to hear me make appointments and carry on practical interactions in French. I can follow the news and participate in conversations with people in our circle, but movies and street speech still elude me. The thing I have enjoyed the most is forming friendships with other students who don't speak English at all. This region of Québec is perhaps less impatient with the struggles of people learning French, with pockets of anglophones and francophones on the Quebec - Ontario border.