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Two lanes: le and la.
A French noun is rushing at you. Get in the right lane before it arrives.
French noun gender as an endless runner, with a daily leaderboard: clozemaster.com/l/fra-eng/le…
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In German, "girl" is neuter: das Mädchen.
Not because girls are things. Because every noun ending in -chen is neuter.
Noun gender is grammar, not meaning. Stop looking for logic and learn the article with the word.
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Fork, spoon, knife, by gender:
German: die Gabel, der Löffel, das Messer
French: la fourchette, la cuillère, le couteau
Spanish: el tenedor, la cuchara, el cuchillo
Same table, three answers. There's no rule here, only memory.
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So learn the article with the noun, every time. 2,500 German nouns, most common first: clozemaster.com/l/deu-eng/ge…
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Sleeping in, by language:
Spanish: pegarse las sábanas (the sheets stick to you)
French: faire la grasse matinée (do the fat morning)
German: ausschlafen (sleep yourself out)
Spanish blames the sheets. What does yours blame?
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An endless radio station of Spanish songs, every lyric written at A2 or B1.
They're AI-generated, so there's always a next song at your level. Read along with synced lyrics and translations.
clozemaster.com/l/spa-eng/in…
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Finnish has one word for drinking at home in your underwear, with no plans to go out:
kalsarikännit
Every language has its gaps. What word do you wish English had?
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Polish: Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy.
Not my circus, not my monkeys. As in: not my problem.
English borrowed it. Which saying should we borrow next?
Pineapple is ananas in almost every language:
French, German, Dutch, Polish, Swedish: ananas
Russian: ананас
Except:
Spanish: piña
Brazil: abacaxi
English: pineapple, a word that first meant pine cone
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Three lanes: der, die, das.
A German noun is rushing at you. Get in the right lane before it arrives.
We made der/die/das into an endless runner, with a daily leaderboard: clozemaster.com/l/deu-eng/de…
Phrasebooks for 84 languages, from Wikivoyage's volunteer writers, turned into quick practice rounds.
French and Japanese, but also Tok Pisin, Yucatec Maya and Tunisian Arabic.
Free, no sign up: clozemaster.com/travel-phras…
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France: 97 = quatre-vingt-dix-sept (four twenties ten seven)
Belgium and Switzerland: nonante-sept (ninety-seven)
Same language, way less maths. Belgians and Swiss also say septante for 70, and parts of Switzerland say huitante for 80.
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Pulling someone's leg, by language:
Spanish: tomar el pelo (take their hair)
French: faire marcher (make them walk)
German: auf den Arm nehmen (take them on your arm)
Italian: prendere in giro (take them around)
How do you tease in yours?
The morning after, by language:
Spanish: resaca (undertow)
German: Kater (tomcat)
French: gueule de bois (wooden mouth)
Swedish: bakfylla (back-fill)
Brazil: ressaca (undertow, again)
What do you wake up with?
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French learners: le or la?
The 2,500 most common French nouns, most common first. Pick one, hear it said, and learn the genders you'll actually use.
clozemaster.com/l/fra-eng/fr…
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German just says what it sees:
glove: Handschuh (hand shoe)
turtle: Schildkröte (shield toad)
sloth: Faultier (lazy animal)
skunk: Stinktier (stink animal)
fridge: Kühlschrank (cool cupboard)
Now you know five German nouns. Their genders are another story.
der Handschuh, die Schildkröte, das Faultier, das Stinktier, der Kühlschrank. Practice the 2,500 most common: clozemaster.com/l/deu-eng/ge…
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Themed vocab lists teach you "whisk" before "although".
The kitchen unit is fun. But the words you'll meet a thousand times aren't in any theme. They're the small, boring, frequent ones.
Learn by frequency first. Themes later.
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Clozemaster's Fluency Fast Track starts with the most common words and works down: clozemaster.com/?utm_campaig…
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