Yes Bath sucking up to the tutors can work too! I veer between being teacher's swot if I like them and being the annoying kid who talks and contradicts them at the back of the class if I don't. Yep, should have grown out of that by now!

As far as qualifications go, I can only think of VCE French and that would be a bit too full-on for me when really I just want to have enough French to make travel more simple/enjoyable/interesting.

I'll take you up on the Alliance Francaise co-studying if we plan a trip to France - though it will be quite some time before I'd be prepared to take DD on a long flight after just taking her on a one-hour flight to Sydney which was quite testing!

I do like to amuse myself with my limited French and often call out "l'homme vert" when I see the green man light up at the crossings.

Oh and if you do end up going to CAE, DP highly recommends the baguette shop on Degraves Street, depending on what time your class is.