| sc94597 said: @Zexen What do you do if you learn a language where the gender is different from the native one? I would definitely get messed up with that. |
No, not really, at least not in my case. When you're born with a language with gender, you automatically each sustantive with its gender. So, "chair" is not "silla" but "la silla". You don't end worrying about if chair is male or female, you have it inscribed in your brain its gender. Therefore, when learning either German or French (the two languages I learnt that use genders), you do the same, each new sustantive you learn you immediately give it an article so your brain remembers it with both the article and the word, without needing to associate it to the original article it had in spanish
Thus, I never had problems knowing that chair is female in Spanish (la silla) but male in German (der Stuhl)
| RolStoppable said: In that case you simply stick with English and say "screw you, french people". The sun is not male and the moon is not female, it's the other way around. |
Actually, the French got it right, it's you Germans who are wrong 
The sun is male and the moon is female
