Do english exchange students adjust and cope in a non english speaking county? (france)?

With two years of studying French, you should have a nice background, which helps a lot, so by 4 or so months your ought to be talking nicely. not perfectly, of course, but communicating without struggling and stumbling through every sentence. It'll be easier one-on-one than in groups, where the language is fast and the conversation will continue whether you understand or not (so it's easy to get hung up on a word or phrase and get lost). By 6 months I'd imagine you would be speaking fairly well, and by the end of the year, very well. Of course you will not be perfect at the end of the year, but you'll be fluent and your errors will be minor enough that they won't affect your abilty to speak and be understood (like using the wrong version of the past tense or something). People will most likely be nice to you, but friends take awhile to make. Most likely you will be following people around like a puppy for awhile as your language skills develop. You won't experience much culture shock, but you will need to learn how to be alone, how to laugh at yourself, and how to deal with problems and situations on exchange. I've been in Germany 4 months. I can talk one-on-one but still have trouble understanding at times. (I arrived with basically no knowledge of German.) I still feel like a puppy sometimes. I'll warn you now -- everythign you say will be cute. I've been called cute while counting. I've been called cute when I said no. I've been called cute for telling someone I didn't know something. You just accept you are adorably foreign after awhile. Accents do that.