Something I always found helpful for learning pronunciation in French was listening to French music. There are a lot of little nuances that you can pick up from listening to it if you don't really have a native-speaker to converse with.
Another thing, once your vocabulary improves a little bit, is to watch a DVD of a movie you already know and like, but switch the audio to French. If it's too fast for you, maybe turn the French subtitles on too. But I think it's important to pick a movie that you know, because then you can associate the French words with ideas and concepts you're familiar with.
Also, to touch a little more on the music thing, I had three verb conjugations in middle school that the class set to music: aller, avoir, etre. Aller and avoir were sung to the tune of "Frere Jacques" and etre was the "Mexican Hat Dance".
I hope some of that helps. I don't really know the best way to explain how to learn a language, it all just kind of came naturally to me. But those are some of the things I used to do to improve my fluency and work on vocabulary and pronunciation
