Language of love

I think French is one of the languages people would love to learn even without having definite purpose.. Speaking French you are savouring every word and listening to French speech you are enjoying every sound..

I had been learning it at school together with English but shorter period of time, only about three years, and then I had several years of stagnation.. But after visiting France twice with its paved streets, with all those people speaking such a tender, I would say “silk” language .. I’ve decided – I want to speak it!

So now I’m in a process of recalling what I’ve already know and learning new things. Here some books which help me:

The Panorama is the textbook written completely in French, also it has a workbook with exercises and “audio-support” on CD, it provides grammar and vocabulary. Just look at the pages..

And the other textbook (written by Popova, Kazakova) is very useful since it gives grammar in rather systematic way.

I would be glad to learn about your experience in learning French.. may be somebody can advice some interesting and useful manuals, textbooks, sites and other sources.

And what’s really interesting – why do you learn French? How does it happen that you’ve decided to learn it?