^{July 14, 2006 – Bastille Day}

Why Learn French?
I want to learn a European language and here are the reasons that I settled on French.

1. French sounds cool. It can’t be as much fun to speak as Lao but it sounds real cool.

2. Food. I dabble in the kitchen and I really like Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook .

3. It’s widely spoken. According to Wikipedia there are 270 million French speakers, of which 120 million are native or fluent. It’s also spoken all across the world: Quebec, Southeast Asia, West Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. Italian, Portuguese or German just aren’t spoken as widely.

Next: My lesson plan.