Yes, we are still talking about the gender of nouns. It is important to learn the gender of nouns because once we start creating complex sentences, we need to make sure that what we are saying makes sense and is correct.
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What not to do as a Spanish-Speaker learning French
While I was studying my French book (Chapter 1, Page 3 of my book)--yes, I'm starting at the very beginning--I ran across the following list of masculine nouns:
Read MoreBasics II: Masculine and Feminine Words
If you have studied a Latin-based Foreign language before, you may already be familiar with the idea of words being feminine or masculine. El libro is the Spanish word for "the book" in English. It is a masculine word. (In Spanish, el=masculine and la=feminine)
Read MoreThe Basics I: Subject Pronouns in French
Subject Pronouns are the "identifiers" in a sentence. They represent the person doing the action and they are followed by a verb.
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More than 128 million people in the world speak the French language. Nonetheless, I was surprised to learn that French is not among one of the top 10 most commonly spoken languages in the world. On the continent of Africa, French is the 4th most commonly spoken language, behind English, Swahili, and Arabic, with 90 million speakers.
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