I agree with SOME of you guys here. French is a hard language to master when you begin with it. Trust me, after 3 to 4 years of hard work with it (read 4 lessons per week + old school teacher=great progress) you'll be pretty high. I did by B2 exams in February, but failed the C1's (damn, that's hard). As to how the French think about their language, they had to put subtitles to some guy on a reality show I used to watch. Well, it's the same thing with Slovenian dialects.
I'd recommend to any beginner, do not try to sound like the Franch do. I tried to do more than I could handle for 2 years, guess the results. FAIL! Do what you know, you'll eventually learn from your mistakes and advance must faster. Trust me on this one. Maybe a month in a French language school in France would also do a world of good.
Now try to learn Slovene. Christ, we have our A level exams this year, the grammar is HARD. Chech it on Wiki. You'll run mad in a couple of minutes.
Yet it's my mother tongue, thus I can only say good things about it. I've always considered literature to be a more important than grammar that kills the mind (although one must learn it to read in the first place).