Grammar Systems

These are the errors that stopped changing. Not the ones you are unsure about — the ones you make confidently, have made for years, and would make again in the next sentence: je n'ai pas de voiture against ce n'est pas une voiture, je pense à elle against j'y pense, il mange against ils mangent where the ear reports nothing at all. Every one of them has been understood correctly by every listener you have ever had, which is precisely why immersion never corrected them. A conversation optimises for being understood, and none of these errors ever prevented that.

This domain treats them as three systems rather than a list of mistakes, because a system can be relearned and a list can only be memorised. Articles, gender and agreement is the first: what negation does to an article and when être keeps it, gender you can predict from a suffix rather than recall per word, and the accord chain running from determiner through adjective to noun and on to the past participle. Pronouns is the second: y and en against their traps, the person-versus-thing split that immersion leaves permanently blurred, and clitic order that stays correct as a sentence grows. Verbs is the third: the silent -ent you must write anyway, the plurals you can hear, and the tense and mood choices B2 argumentation demands. Each system is worked in its written face first, where the error is visible and correctable, and the same distinctions carry into speech in the oral domains.