My native language in turn doesn't have articles, so people frequently put "a" when there should be "the" and vice versa, or put it where it is normally omitted.
Some features of languages are hard and unless one acquired an intuition early in life, they'll keep making mistakes.
Is his own boss.
(And it would be “its” anyway - “it’s” is a contraction for “it is” and is wrong in this context)