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People who speak English as a second language: how confusing is it that nouns are not gendered? (lemmy.world)
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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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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Try Finnish or Hungarian, even their pronouns are genderless.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    OK, but ugro-finnic languages are incredibly harder compared to English, I would say even much harder than German (saying this as a basic Estonian speaker - which is similar to Finnish from what I can tell).

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