>>>>>>For anybody who is learning French (although I think I may be the only one on this board), the movie The Son of Joseph (Le fils de Joseph) is highly recommended. I liked the movie a lot for the “plot” and the “style.” The movie is also very helpful in “testing” the comprehension of a “normally” spoken French. I am proud that, after about 3 years of studying, I understood about 50%. Clearly the French in this movie is considerably slower than many other French series that I have been watching recently. But it is a start.
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>>>>>You're right about the learning bit.
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>>>>what do you mean by 'bit.'?
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>>>J'ai appris le français quand j'avais 8 ans...
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>>How much/often do you have to use it in your day-to-day life?
>>When I visited Brugge in 2013 it was before I even thought of learning French and kind of didn't pay attention to what language people spoke in stores and restaurants.
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>As we have a house in the Périgord i quite often speak French. btw my mothers tongue is Dutch.

I remember you said once that Dutch is your mother's tongue. I also grew up in a bi-lingual environment (in Western Ukraine) where almost everybody spoke Russian and Ukrainian.
I don't know if I have time and cognitive ability (at my age) to learn French so I can have a conversation (rather than just getting by in a store or a restaurant), but I will continue studying. My first goal is to learn it so that I can understand a movie or a series without English subtitles.