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[-] glorkon@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"for monolingual speakers of english, it’s hard to learn a language with grammatical genders, but if you already speak a language with those, that won’t be a problem"

Not necessarily. I'm German and I still have to learn French grammatical genders by heart, because they don't necessarily match ours. Familiarity with the concept doesn't make it any easier, just less weird.

Example: The tower. LA tour, feminine. DER Turm, masculine.

[-] fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 2 weeks ago

That's more of a Germanic vs Latin languages. Most genders on french and Spanish match.

[-] owsei@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

What? no

I know portugueses and spanish and I'm learning french and it make it all even more complex

Since in one language it's something, in anofher it's something else

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lol, they don't even match consistently between Portuguese and Spanish which are much closer, even when the noun is literally the same (e.g.a água vs el água)

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

They don't even match between Austrian German and German German.

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