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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.

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[–] frankenswine 138 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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] 49 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

It's sure nice not having to learn German. I'm a native.

[–] Zombiepirate 14 points 5 days 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!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

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