u/Indian_1729

8 years in France. I can negotiate contracts and present quarterly results in French without thinking. But try to have a normal human conversation - describing a weekend, joking with friends, talking to a doctor about symptoms - and I'm suddenly A2 again.

I've started thinking of it as "scenario gaps." We get good at what we repeat, and everything else stays untrained. Has anyone found a way to systematically close these gaps? I've been experimenting with picking one weak scenario per week and deliberately putting myself in that situation, and it seems to help more than general conversation practice.