If you’ve ever studied a foreign language, you know that in many languages, nouns —even inanimate objects— have grammatical gender. Russian, French, Spanish, and Arabic are all examples of such ...

Learning a language involves much more than vocabulary and grammar; language learners must also uncover the cultural values and ideologies embedded within the language itself. In the case of Romance ...

When the United Nations introduced guidelines with gender-inclusive strategies for six major languages, not everyone was keen to jump on the bandwagon. Some felt the changes altered the symmetry of ...

"The masculine trumps the feminine "... How many times have we not heard this endless phrase repeated by our French teachers? This rule of grammar is well known to all French speakers and we had to - ...

First, I did a search and didn't find this. Second, I don't speak French so I don't know the true answer to the question.<BR><BR>That being said, here's something that was posted on another board I ...