French language

The French language seems like a huge mountain that we're standing at the base of, looking up.  I can't see the other side, but many people who have been there tell me it's great and the mountain is totally climbable.  From here though, it looks like a hard climb with plenty of opportunity to fall to my death.

This is crazy.

But...

Spending a year in flight school gave me personal experience with climbing a mountain that seems daunting at first.  Over the course of a year, I memorized four chapters of flight manuals (Chapters 5 and 9 of the TH-67 and UH-60 manual), countless mnemonic devices to remember things like the five functions of the stabilator (SCALP) and more IFR navigation rules than I ever dreamed of.

This makes sense.

So I'm pretty sure J and I can do it.

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