Distinguishing masculine and feminine words

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Hello forum,

I’ve been taking the official Memrise french lessons for english speakers and I’ve been having some difficulties distinguishing whether a noun is feminine or masculine when they start with a vowel (e.g. l’abre, l’hopital, l’aquarium, l’abeille, etc.).
An idea would be to:

  • Allow course creators to use colour (in French: blue for masculine and pink for feminine - this could be useful in Russian, German, and also Chinese for the tones)
  • Use symbols (♂, ♀)
  • use ‘un’ or ‘une’ instead of ‘le’ and ‘la’

Merci beaucoup !

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HI @mashi_noguchi. You’d probably be better off posting this in the forums for the official French courses :slight_smile:

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HI @mashi_noguchi Totally agree this is confusing.

Using colors its good idea (blue for masculine and pink for feminine)
or/and using some web icons ( mustache icon and girl hair icon in a front of the words or the sentences)

This may help so much

:wink: