{"id":1920,"date":"2019-10-22T13:39:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/?page_id=1920"},"modified":"2025-02-10T10:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T07:02:42","slug":"the-difficulty-and-absurdity-of-learning-a-new-language-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/the-difficulty-and-absurdity-of-learning-a-new-language-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The difficulty and absurdity of learning a new language."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ef.edu\/blog\/language\/why-learning-a-language-is-hard\/\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"wp-image-1393\" src=\"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/The-difficulty-and-absurdity-of-learning-a-new-language.-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/The-difficulty-and-absurdity-of-learning-a-new-language.-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/The-difficulty-and-absurdity-of-learning-a-new-language.-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/The-difficulty-and-absurdity-of-learning-a-new-language.-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordstoelate.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/The-difficulty-and-absurdity-of-learning-a-new-language..jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>My experience with French<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I have been to alliance Fran\u00e7aise and the experience was great, I would go to more classes, and speak French I&#8217;d say. in French, as many already know that, every noun or verb is either male or female as you attach its distinctive representatives, a wall is a female, a table is a male, what about a door, a knife, window, books, pen, telephone, cups, all are either male or female and you have to know which is which, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fluentfrenchnow.com\/french-verb-conjugations-are-not-as-hard-as-they-look\/\">a bizarre thing<\/a> for beginners.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>I was flabbergasted by this idea that every living thing has to be either male or female. 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