I hope language learning memes are okay
I hope language learning memes are okay
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25565846
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Fu -ish facts: bra is feminine, purse is masculine, mustache is feminine, boobs is masculine, dick is feminine, vagina is masculine, love is masculine when singular and feminine when plural.
Don't look for meaning or logic, our langiage is a clusterfuck (that ot transactivists have been working at it for centuries and doing a great job).
Have fun learning and remember no native speaker cares if you misgender an item, we usually find it funny and/or cute ;)
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My mom is Dutch but lives in France
She speaks and writes better French than 99% of Frenchmen. Better than me, and I was born here
But once in a while (excessively rarely, maybe 5 times a year) that brainiac will use the wrong gender. And boy does it sound weird
Meanwhile even the dumbest of Le Pen voters will always get it right
There's no mastering it if you're not native
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The easy way to be correct 80% of the time is to apply sexism.
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Latviešu seems like the same
Finnish is so easy; anything is "it", including humans.
Only exception is pets and sometimes other people's kids unless they're annoying -
I assume a washing machine is female in that case.
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All machines are. I'd say it's at least 90% completely arbitrary, what makes streets, tables, power, or cars feminine? What makes some countries feminine and some masculine? The only thing you could believably argue that it's historic sexism is job titles, because most of them are masculine with derived feminine words.
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They're okay, this one is a classic.
I guess the English equivalent is "trying to remember how to pronounce"ou" in this word"
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This guy's English class videos are great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXW3Xk_cLag
They're all the same, but I smile every time.
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There are some memory techniques where you tell yourself a story about the word where you can use some particular person, action, or object to represent the gender. Though these techniques work better if you have the ability to visualize. So for words that are female gender, you could always put your sister in the story, and for the male gendered words your uncle always appears.
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Ohh that's a new tip for me, thanks! At this point I'm ready to try even a ritual..
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I dunno about French, but machines are usually female.
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They're female in french. La machine.
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just learn some dialect where they largely drop the genders, there's gotta be one, and as a bonus i'm sure you'll sound slightly more native
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Yeah, nah. It's not like in Scandinavia where half the dialects lost the feminine and half the others look at you like you killed their mother for saying "en bok".
Most French "dialects" vary mostly in prononciation and a few regional words or expressions. Partly because French is a heavily regulated language, and partly because most dialects are relatively recent anyway. In the early 20th century the central government erased all regional languages and forced standard French on all society.
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