The 15 French Mistakes English Speakers Makeand the fix for each
The 15 mistakes that make you sound foreign, each with the one-line fix you can use in your next sentence.
Articles and gender
Le, la, du, de la, and why « je suis un professeur » sounds wrong to a French ear.
C'est or il est?
The rule that settles it in two seconds, with the examples you will actually say.
Negation and questions
How people really say them in conversation, not only how textbooks write them.
Adjectives and pronouns
Where the adjective goes, which pronoun to pick, and the little words that give you away.
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The 15 French Mistakes English Speakers Make
and the fix for each
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Three of the fifteen
Each mistake comes with the correct version and the one-line reason, so it sticks.
- 1Je suis professeur.not « je suis un professeur »: no article for a job after être
- 2J'ai trente ans.not « je suis trente ans »: age goes with avoir
- 3Je n'ai pas de voiture.not « pas une voiture »: un, une, des become de after pas
Short and printable. Built from the same lessons as my Instagram posts, so the two never contradict each other.