How do you deal with learning gendered articles? (sopuli.xyz)

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Wanted to ask for some tips since I'm really struggling with this trying to learn German.

I know there are certain ways to guess the gender (e.g. -er endings are usually masculine, -ung feminine and loan words neutral) but often times I'm just butchering the whole sentence by not knowing the correct articles.

Let me demonstrate my frustration: in many cultures the moon is considered "feminine", but in German it has masculine article!

Bitte, hüfe!

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[-] ada 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It helped me immensely, because the traditional style of language learning was frustrating and ineffective for me.

This way hasn't been super fast, but it's fun, not frustrating, and has given me really good pronunciation. It "fits" my learning style well.

[-] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

That's what I've been missing about language learning. The fun I had in the beginning.

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