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Like most school kids growing up in the UK in the 1970s I attended French classes at school - 2 lessons a week, 40 weeks a year, for 3 years. During all this time, I dont actually know what I learned! I know that I didnt take the subject particularly seriously, but after a total of 240 lessons I should have had a better command of the language.

Just how poor my command of French was, was illustrated in a family trip to France in 1978. As an eighteen year-old, I joined my parents on a car trip to France. The ferry trip was uneventful and we hopped into our car at Calais.

My dad, Hearing Amplifiers a typical pom, assumed everyone drives on the left hand side of the road and within 5 minutes we had a head-on collision! Fortunately no one was hurt. But, as expected the other diver was pretty angry, hurling abuses to us in French.

As someone who had taken French for 3 years, my parents looked at me to speak to this chap in French and calm him down. To my embarrassment all I could say was The sky is blue. Not very useful!

Some thirty years later, I decided to give French another go. This time, I actually wanted to speak the language and made a commitment to learn French within 3 months.

As a seasoned user of audio books, I found and then bought the "Teach Yourself French" series of audio books. I listened to these books while walking the dog each morning and driving to and from work each day. Initially I didn't pay that much attention and it all seemed too difficult. Then, it began to get easier and easier.

Within 8 weeks I became quite comfortable with hearing French and could follow most of what was being said. Within 12 weeks, Id say that I was almost fluent! All this from just an hour a day listening to my audiobook during down time!

Im please to report that on my latest trip to France, I could say a lot more than The Sky is Blue. And no, I didnt drive on the left hand side of the road and didnt have a collision!

Russell Clark owns and operates talkingbooksdirect.com