Back to School

I had my third formal French lesson today, and this time there were 2 other people in the class, one Spanish and one Polish. They are both way better than me and I'm starting to think that joining 15 lessons into an intermediate class is not going to work. I'm going to get a 3 week reprieve though, as the classes are being divided up between the remaining tutors as one is going to have some surgery. I will be back in easy street again for these 3 weeks, although not back in the "je suis" class. I still find it very difficult to understand what people at work say, but not so bad understanding the tutors, presumably because they enunciate better. I'm also trying to locate a crib sheet with the 1000 & 2000 most common French words, as it is reckoned that 80% of conversation uses roughly just 1000 words and 90% about 2000 words. The other 10% can bugger off as I've only one lifetime to spare on this, and I reckon 90% will do just fine. In practice, any other new words will then be acquired as needed, perhaps as a result of a particular role or interest etc. I'd rather concentrate on correct grammer after that point anyway, as I'm a bit of a grammer natzi with English, and I reckon I'd enjoy being able to do the same en francais :-)