Taylor Presley thought he spoke pretty good French. After all, the junior at UAH had been taking it since high school. But when he stepped off the plane in Paris this past June for a summer semester abroad, he found out otherwise. "I was way worse than I thought when I got there!" says the Nashville, Tenn., native. "I hadn't spoken nearly enough to be confident." And while the adults were usually very helpful as he struggled to speak their language, the kids were another story all together.