Don't know where to start...French | General discussion | Forum

Hi, I'm 24yo nursing student and I live in Bristol, UK. English is my native tongue and I can't speak any other languages. I'm looking to learn French to the point where I will be working as a nurse in French speaking countries, seeing as good nursing is massively reliant on effective communication I will need to understand, write, and speak to a high level. I speak no French, and during highschool I was in the bottom set because I never paid attention and had no interest in French, the only plus side of this was that my teachers always said my pronunciation was very good and that I had a knack for being able to read a lot of words how they should be pronounced. Bonus.

Anyway, I was given a PDF of the Language Hacking Guide by a friend who wanted to help me (Benny, if you read this, I promise I'll buy my own just as soon as I'm earning more money, and I'll buy it twice if it helps me to learn French) and I've read parts of it but I'm very much feeling overwhelmed with information and don't really know what to do with it all.

What I need is some deadlines, and I understand that, but I don't know what a realistic deadline is and I need to make them reasonable and achievable. At the minute I'm just kind of floundering about learning a few words here and there, I've taken on board the 'just speak' method, but I kind of feel like I need something else to go on with this. I just simply don't even have enough basic vocabulary to go on and everything I find online to learn is of the 'Which way is the train-station?' ilk of phrase learning that doesn't seem to stick or interest.

Anyone out there able to help?

Thank you.