Sustained Criticism

I'm thinking of taking up French. It is completely silly to be half-versed in French, particularly when fluency isn't that far off: I'm familiar with the verb tenses, I just need to get re-acquaintanted. Then I'll have to cram my head full of words. It's within reach, why not? Even conversational French would be an asset. And, with at least tolerable French, Russian would, likely, be easier to piece together.