What to do?

The difficulties I am having with the language I think may be holding me back from fully enjoying myself here. That being said, I don't not speak the language, I dont speak it well enough, however I can make conversation, and can get by. SO I asked my sous chef what he would do in my situation. He says to me when he worked in the US, they said to him learn the language or leave. He said within one month he knew all the neglish cooking terms. Heres my issue, I already know the terms, its when people here speak exreamly quickly and use words that are fancy French words that I dont understand, since I speak simple french. Oh well. 5 weeks left. Ill figure things out thats forsure.

yehuda