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| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5362 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 9 of 51 30 May 2010 at 7:56am | IP Logged | ||
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The color trick is very useful. I've wanted for some time an Anki plugin that would do it automatically.
To the OP, I would say your sexist example is perfect. In my experience, the more colorful and un-politically correct, the more likely you are to remember*. I've done that as well when I have particular trouble (although most of the time I don't need a mnemonic). *Nothing new to anyone who's studied Kanji vis Heisig. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6227 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 10 of 51 30 May 2010 at 10:48am | IP Logged | ||
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I always thought learning, die Tuer, das Essen, Der Vertreter was useful, and by analogy I often find myself getting others right. Edited by Declan1991 on 30 May 2010 at 12:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5554 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 11 of 51 30 May 2010 at 11:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I find that learning what rules there are first helps, and then after that, you sort of get a feel for noun gender - if you can't tell exactly which gender a noun is, you can at least eliminate one gender for sure. Declan1991, Wasser is neuter in German - das Wasser.
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| Declan1991 Tetraglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6227 days ago 233 posts - 359 votes Speaks: English*, German, Irish, French | Message 12 of 51 30 May 2010 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5830 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 13 of 51 30 May 2010 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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When learning German I treated the noun and its article as if they were one word. So for example when I wanted to learn the word for child I learnt it as Daskind.
Most people I know don't do this. They learn the noun. In this case Kind. Then they try to memorize its gender. Kind is neuter. Kind is neuter... Example Daskind = child Diestadt = city Same with Spanish Elchico = the boy Edited by John Smith on 30 May 2010 at 4:53pm 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5373 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 14 of 51 30 May 2010 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | ||
I like that idea! I've never thought about it that way. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dolly Senior Member United States Joined 5578 days ago 191 posts - 376 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 15 of 51 09 July 2010 at 5:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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For learners of French:
The Rules of Gender for French Nouns: Why your arm is masculine, but your leg is feminine, and other mysteries of the French language, Revised Fourth Edition by Saul H. Rosenthal ISBN-10: 1604943068 ISBN-13: 978-1604943061 Les règles du genre des noms au masculin et au féminin : Pourquoi le bras est au masculin tandis que la jambe est au féminin, et autres mystères de la langue française de Saul H Rosenthal ISBN-10: 1587363305 ISBN-13: 978-1587363306. I think the English version is more up to date. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5355 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 16 of 51 09 July 2010 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | ||
Not sure how helpful this technique would be to someone studying more than one language, trying to remember for example German "die Sonne"/"der Mond" vs. French "le soleil"/"la lune". 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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