Ali asks: "How do you remember the gender of nouns?"

Episode Summary:

• Unfortunately, noun genders just have to be remembered
• At first it seems like an impossible task, but keep going, and you will start to know instinctively which is which
• You will inevitably make some mistakes, but you will be forgiven!
• If you use mnemonics, try creating some way of visualising the gender of the word
• In practice, you can guess the gender of many words using generalised rules (see below)
• Interestingly, the gender of words can vary between romance languages. For example, "planet": la planète (Fr), el planeta (Es)

Examples in French, taken from the French Your Way site: The following words are generally masculine:

• Nouns ending in “_sme” Example : le communisme, le capitalisme, le marasme
• Nouns

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