>>>I think you are a very good person to ask questions when learning French. As I find that people who learned a language (and not native) are often times better at explaining to beginners.
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>>I seem to recall being told somewhere (memory says it was while in the Army, but I'm not sure about that) that the best person to teach a class is the honor graduate from the previous class. As honor graduate he knows the material. As someone who has only recently learned the material he understands the problems facing the new students.
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>>Teaching takes real skill beyond knowledge of the subject. For people just learning to play bridge, I've found that the best teachers are rarely expert players and that expert players are rarely good teachers. They just "know" the right thing to do and can't explain it in a way the novice can understand.
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>i was with a french girl a few years back, and talking about the way certain letters have a circumflex over them, like hôtel, indicating that the word, in older French, used to have an "S" after such letters (ie "hostel"), from the orig Latin. eg Forêt, Fenêtre (Latin fenestra). She was dead impressed, saying that not many French know that. A case of the innate speaker not knowing the rules. I guess that's why so many English speakers say "I could of done that".

My favourite is still "It's a doggy dog world".