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Very, it's just that French isn't my other language. As with so many other immigrants, English isn't my first language. In my case, it is the third one.
And given the amount of work I know it takes to master foreign language, I'm not in a hurry to add a fifth such as French.
Same here ... except my language is Indigenous ... my first language is Ojibwe-Cree which both my parents spoke and English was our second language. For the first ten years of my life I only spoke my language and English was a foreign language.
As an adult that's only used English now for most of my life it's the other way around .... I now speak more English than Ojibwe because there's only a few hundred people that still speak my language and my specific dialect.
I'm still fluent in my first language ... I just don't have anyone to speak to.
Thanks for sharing your story. As distant as our background is, I have the same problem of not really having anybody with whom to practice my native language on a regular basis.
On the other hand I'm grateful to all the people who have put the effort to learn English, giving people like me a chance to learn something from them, which wouldn't happen otherwise.
Hang tight on it.
Meet people online or provide online classes, or recorded classes that can last for generations.
That counts!