Non, je ne parle pas francais.
I just treat it like other languages, I pick up vocab casually, and remember particular phrases.
I did drop out of French class in high school. I don't think that really counts though since I learned nothing whatsoever. :D
You can pick up a bit in pretty much any other language if you just treat it like English, picking up words and phrase and forgetting about picking up the grammar. I don't think a person should bother with grammar until you have enough vocab, since it's so unrewardibly painful, but my opinion about that is probably worthless since I never became any good at any at all of the languages I studied.
C'est la vie.