Two mistakes to avoid to make sure you don’t freeze when you try to speak French

Most French learners still speak English in a French country but a few make the effort to speak French because they know it’s the only way to fully enjoy French culture and connect with locals.

They can ask for directions to the lovely apartment they rented, buy a few croissants at a local bakery, or book a table at a restaurant. Some may work up the courage to try to speak with locals.

Unfortunately, their attempts aren’t always successful, when they realize French people can’t understand a word they say or when the person they’re talking to asks them to repeat.

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It’s not even their fault!

They spent years learning vocabulary and verb conjugations they quickly forgot, did their best to understand the difference between masculine and feminine words, and worked hard to try to understand spoken French.

Avoiding these 2 mistakes is essential if you ever want to speak and understand French

You may think you just need to work harder; you may think you’re too old to learn French, you may think you’re bad at learning languages.

Truth is, the reason why so many French learners struggle to speak and understand French is that they simply make the following two mistakes.

Mistake 1 - Wasting your time learning vocabulary

There is nothing more frustrating than spending months learning French only to realize that the words you know are useless in a real-life conversation.

Yet, that’s what happens to most French learners who learned French the traditional way. They know lots of words but can’t form sentences because the French they know isn’t the French they need to speak French.

That’s a shame because, according to L’encyclopédie Incomplète, the same 600 French words represent 90% of words used in common French texts.

Knowing these words won’t make you fluent but it will make it considerably easier for you to understand the language.

That’s why it’s essential to focus on high-frequency vocabulary and say goodbye to old-fashioned methods that make you waste your time learning how to say ruler and peony

Mistake 2 - Giving too much importance to grammar rules

Most French learners start by learning conjugation tables by heart and obsessing over the most insignificant aspects of French grammar.

They spend days learning rules they don’t understand, conjugating verbs they don’t need and memorizing the thousands of exceptions of each grammar rule.

The truth is, you don’t need to know that much grammar to speak French with confidence.

You simply need to learn the 20% of grammar rules that will help you understand 80% of sentences.

You don’t need to know the list of all masculine and feminine words. You just need to know that the majority of words ending in -e or -ion are feminine while most other words are masculine.

You don’t need to learn how to conjugate 100 verbs in the present tense, you just need to learn a few conjugation patterns that apply to the vast majority of verbs.

If you do that, you won’t know all the details of French grammar. You will, however, be able to speak French without taking forever to construct a sentence.

The two mistakes you just discovered show that the key to quickly speaking French with confidence is to focus on what matters.

This may sound simple but most French courses try to teach you so much at once that you end up overwhelmed and frustrated by your inability to speak and understand French. What you need to do is learn the most common French words first and focus on the grammar that you actually need to know.

You could search for the best “grammar hacks” but you’re not guaranteed to find anything. And again, how do you know you’re not wasting your time on useless grammar rules?

That’s why we created this blog.

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