Reddit reviews Colloquial French: The Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series)

It's best to learn as much as you can on your own before you move to the province. Otherwise, especially if you're in Montreal, you might be tempted to keep speaking English because you feel your French is not yet good enough, and that's a vicious circle.

There are lots of free or cheap resources out there to learn French, so it shouldn't be a problem. If you're looking for online lessons, I recommend you check out duolingo. It's completely free. I haven't tried their French course, but the Spanish one is great, so I guess it should be fine.

If you're looking for books, I suggest you look into Hippocrene Beginner's French, Colloquial French, or Teach Yourself French.

Given that I'm a native speaker, I haven't tried these specific books, but those series are extremely well made, so I assume the French ones are equally good.

Anyway, best of luck to you in learning French. Don't give up easily. It might seem hard at first, but with practice you'll see it is in fact a fantastic language.

The books like Teach Yourself Complete French and Colloquial Frenchhave series of dialogues that is likely to be heard in everyday life, at least that's what they say. So just do what you can to get a little piece of language on your mp3 player and listen to it :)