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French speakers learning Japanese
— the mistakes your language makes you commit

Your native language (Français) quietly pushes you into specific Japanese errors. Here are the ones to watch — and the fix for each. This is exactly how WordSlick coaches you, every day.

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from your first language

Verb goes last (SVO→SOV)

French keeps the verb after the subject; Japanese ends every clause with it (watashi wa gohan o taberu). Build the sentence backwards from the verb.

from your first language

Drop articles, gender and plural

Le/la/les, gender and -s have no Japanese equivalent — nothing replaces them. Particles like は/が/を carry the grammar instead; resist inventing a definiteness marker.

from your first language

tu/vous instinct helps with です/ます (advantage!)

Your tu/vous reflex maps onto plain form vs です/ます — same social calculation, made on every verb. Keigo then adds a third, higher layer above vous.

core challenge

Particles (は/が/を/に/で)

Particles mark grammatical role — choosing は vs が and を vs に is the core challenge.

core challenge

Verb-final word order

Japanese is Subject-Object-Verb; the verb always comes last.

core challenge

Counters

Counting needs the right counter word (一本, 一枚, 一匹) for the object’s shape/type.

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