{"id":31021,"date":"2019-01-16T20:56:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=31021"},"modified":"2019-01-16T20:56:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T19:56:55","slug":"la-newsletter-mixing-up-les-genres-in-french","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/la-newsletter-mixing-up-les-genres-in-french\/","title":{"rendered":"La Newsletter – Mixing Up Les Genres In French"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the hardest parts of learning French is trying to remember les genres des mots<\/strong> (the gender of words). The seemingly random choice of one word being masculin<\/strong> and another being f\u00e9minin<\/strong> always leads to making mistakes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Image<\/a> from Pixabay. Licensed under CC0.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes the fast pace au bureau<\/a><\/strong> (at the office) doesn’t leave time for corrections and small errors fall the sidelines uncorrected. I may make une faute<\/strong> (a mistake<\/a>) but if I’m still understood no one mentions it as long as no one’s work is affected.<\/p>\n

It’s a practical solution and keeps work discussions from turning into grammar lessons, but can unfortunately lead to forming incorrect patterns. That then leads to spending time unlearning before being able to relearn the proper way to say something.<\/p>\n

For me, this most often happens with les genres des mots<\/strong>. Les genres<\/strong> can be random or ambiguous and require a lot of memorization if you never want to make a mistake. Even les francophone<\/strong> (French speakers) sometimes struggle<\/a> with les genres des mots<\/strong> so how is a non native speaker like myself going to stand a chance!<\/p>\n

To be fair, there are some useful patterns<\/a> that make remembering les genres<\/strong> much easier, but it still often boils down to memorizing a big chunk of exceptions. Heureusement<\/strong> (luckily), there is a fun way to reinforce why it’s important to get them right though.<\/p>\n

Using An Chair To Understand The Importance Of Les Genres In French<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n