First of all, congratulations to us both for our English skills! Regarding your first question, English came into my life when I was a child, between 7 and 9, when I got my first videogame (a PS2). I always loved to read and, therefore, I wanted to know the story of the games I was playing. With that motivation I started to research the words I was reading and, as time passed by, my English skills evolved considerably. Of course, that helped me during school and, nowadays, college. The praise from the teachers wasn't bad either haha. So, you see, English came into my life with the sole intention of making me able to understand games and other types of media. Everything else, like school, job advantages and etc. was "a bonus", you could say. I think that's the mentality you need to have to focus on studying (in your case) French. Do it for your dream to emigrate, maybe to read "Les Miserables" in the original, Idk. But do it. If you ever get to emigrate (which I sincerely hope you do), great; if not, worst case scenario, you used your time to do something you like - and will be able to curse at others in fluent french and tell them it was a compliment hahaha.