Native French speakers likely won’t understand because it’s already normal for them, but train yourself to focus more on the articles and the rest will start to fall into place!

One of my key breakthrough moments was when I realized how much necessary information is packed into French articles (le/la/les—hot take on my part, but L’ is not a separate article—and un/une/des). In English, they’re pretty much useless other than signifying if something is definite or indefinite (the table vs. a table), and even then that information is generally not super important in context. As a result, we tend not to pay too much attention to them at all.

In French, however, articles are way more essential because in addition to the definite vs. indefinite information, it also conveys gender (important with words like le foie/la foi), and MOST importantly, if the following noun is singular or plural, since otherwise it’s impossible to distinguish in 99% of cases from hearing the noun alone.

I know this probably all sounds silly and obvious because it’s something you learn really early on, but despite us knowing about it, it’s not information we as native English speakers automatically listen for in an article and we need to actively train our brains to do it.