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1. deliciousturkey · 1789900662 · focus · HN ↗

   As a native speaker of a language without articles, I find the English article system by far the most intuitive and easiest to learn of all the languages I have studied. Most other Indo-European languages have articles that you simply need to memorize, as there is no way to derive them from the word itself. Which I never manage to do.

   1. nlitened · 1789901724 · focus · HN ↗

      You probably mean word genders? So you probably say it's sometimes difficult to derive the gender of a noun, hence the correct article

      1. subscribed · 1789908017 · focus · HN ↗

         And to make things worse, genders differ between languages, say, German, Portuguese, or Slavic languages :)

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