Have you tried looking for a French Beginner Discord voice chat? Or a similar local club for an in person meeting in your area?

Tutors are not necessary. But this is a humanity / language arts problem. Communication with humans is literally the goal. Conversing with other similarly ranked beginners (with a moderator or teacher guiding the group) is among the best practice you can do.

Again, the point of public discussion with other humans is to find all the little mistakes and misunderstandings. The things that other humans find difficult with your pronunciation, rhythm or accent.

Tutors are simply the most expensive version of this available of live, one on one practice. It's a bad overall $$ value compared to class discussion or clubs but the human in the loop is perhaps the most important thing here for training yourself.

Again: it's the LLMs overly generous acceptance that I find problematic. When I talk in German at A2 level, other humans easily point out when I'm doing things in "English order" or other similar mistakes (which makes the sentence harder to understand in German).

But with an LLM, the LLM just understands broken German in English order or whenever I leave out a separatable verb or whatever. It autocorrects too much.