Trying to pick up some French with Duolingo, and it's... very sink or swim. Different from the regimented way I was taught Spanish in high school. I guess it's trying to teach it conversationally, like you'd learn your first language? I mean, yeah, you don't sit with a baby and conjugate "to be", but it's confusing sometimes. Like I didn't see why there was only one valid answer here. Why can't I eat a sandwich?

Turns out the reason is... genders. Baguette is feminine, sandwich is masculine, fuck, une is fucking feminine, so sandwich doesn't match because fuck.
Fuck genders.
(Not bagging on the language itself (mainly), just how genders can be frustrating in a whooooole neeeww waaayyy)

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what if I want to mange a lady man-sandwich huh duolingo come fite me

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