Articulate English, Plodding German, Piecemeal French

I used to wonder how university professors could know so many languages, but now I'm beginnig to understand. I have tentatively agreed to take on a project for one of my professors, reading through a Greek etymological dictionary and marking out words of foreign extraction. I had initially declined, because the text is in French. He actually showed us the text today, however, and I think that the simplicity and grammatical consistency of the book will allow me to suffer through it. Now, I have the standard nine years of French that is required in Ontario, but so does everone else. I always did pretty well, but I never really cared for it. Today I found out that it was, in fact, useful. I can apparently read French much better than I thought, possibly from years of reading cereal boxes, possibly from growing up in a bilingual country. At any rate, I'm using the opportunity to improve my French. I won't actually start the project in earnest until I'm a bit more comfortable, and if I find out that I'm still struggling, I'll tell my professor. He knows my French is weak, so it shouldn't be a problem. Right now, I plan to do an hour or two of French per night. I have lots of language-learning aids, so I'm good to go. My workload will also decrease in about a week (mind you, I usually say that, and it never seems to happen), so hopefully I'll have more time to devote to this.