A really fast update about actual language learning. I'm back to work tomorrow so I hope to get into a decent routine with my French. I've got a grammar book, French grammar in context (or something like that can't remember) and I'm lifting grammar rules and trying to put them into Anki in a way that will be useful to me. I'm also inputting the exercises in the grammar book. I've made it to page 2 and already have 20-30 cards. I've also got an Anki deck for drilling French numbers so that I know 4 20's and 19 = 99 without doing the math and just knowing that the words mean 99. I've also got two decks with sentences built from word frequencies which have a decent computer voice. So 5 cards per day with these 4 decks nets me 20 new cards per day.
I've also completed a couple of tapes of the FSI Basic Course (revised) and doing all the drills. My plan is to complete both volumes 1 and 2 and do all the drills. Bit mind numbing, but worth it I think.
Watching Star Trek again in French, but this time without the sub-titles and forcing myself to listen. If I really, really don't understand, but need to know what they are saying, then I turn on French sub-titles and read it. But I only had to do this once so far.
I've removed all English and Italian from MyPod app and put on two French podcasts which look interesting. I'm going to listen to these at any opportunity. I want to basically blast my brain with French anytime I'm awake and don't absolutely need to use English.
I've put the Micheal Thomas vocabulary builder in my car (the ones without Micheal Thomas) to listen to it I get bored of French podcasts, French news on the radio, or TinTin on CD.
(More likely I'll get board of MT, and listen to one of those) but from now on my car is an English free zone.
Finally I have a tonne of French books to read, both physical and electronic. This will probably be the hardest thing to find time for, but need to make it a priority really.
The last step is converting all my devices to work in French. PC, phones, tablets, etc.