I want to learn French

I've always wanted to learn French. It's not a very useful skill, I'll grant you. If I wanted to learn a language I'd be much better off learning Spanish or Mandarin but there's something about French that keeps calling to me. Of course, I've never had a single lesson of French, having taken the far more useless Latin in high school (sure, I can't talk to anyone but I can recite Caesar's report on Gaul. Did you know it's divided into three parts?).

Of course, I doubt I'm going to be able to teach myself French, but I thought why not give a try. So I've got a copy of Rosetta Stone to see if it can help me with my learnding. It's bound to be better than this: