It’s a rare example of English being simpler than other languages, so I’m curious if it’s hard for a new speaker to keep the nouns straight without the extra clues.

  • @frankenswine
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    not at all. it simplifies the learning experience by quite a bunch.

    one of the more confusing is learning other gendered languages where the gender of some object is different to the one in your mother tongue

    • Canadian_Cabinet
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      3119 hours ago

      To make matters worse, some languages have the exact same word but with a different gender. Heat in Spanish is el calor but in Catalán is la calor

      • @[email protected]
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        4318 hours ago

        To make matters even worse, in some languages the exact same word with different gender has different meaning.

        In German:
        “der Band”, male, = a (book) volume
        “das Band”, neutral, = ribbon
        “die Band”, female = (music) band

        Bonus: “die Bande” can be a gang, a sports barrier, and (relationship) ties.

    • thisisbutaname
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      1220 hours ago

      Yeah I basically never thought about the gender of English nouns because there’s very few reasons to

    • @ZombiepirateOP
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      1220 hours ago

      one of the more confusing is learning other gendered languages where the gender of some object is different to the one in your mother tongue

      That’s something I hadn’t really considered. Interesting!