renaissance poisson

My strength in learning (with languages as other things) is in grokking patterns, and my weakness is in memorisation, so I kind of have to start with the grammar. If the mode of teaching doesn't tell me the grammar rules I'll work them out for myself (which my linguistics studies have enabled me to do, along with the morphophonemic rules, given sufficient data).

To become actually usefully fluent I need to just practise practise practise, though, and that's something I make less time for these days than when I was a teenager in love with French.