Improve my French

I work in a downtown retail store in Canada’s captial – which is pretty much bilingual. Every so often, we have a customer who only speaks french and needs some one to help them. Aparently, I’m the only one of the part timers who kind of understands french, and I usually end up helping the people find what they are looking for. I’ve been trying harder and harder to actually keep up a conversation with the people who come to the store and I’m slowly finding it easier – with practice I think I can get my conversational french up, and my comprehension is pretty good, too.Right now, my main goal is to simply know enough french to not embarass myself at my place of employment (more than I already do); however, eventually I’d like to get into a grad program that requires french – so we’ll see!