• Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    I asked my Francophone buddy that grew up in backwoods Quebec how the hell he kept it all in his head. He said that he never bothered.

    If it had an “e” on the end, he just assumed it was feminine.

    If he was drunk, he didn’t give a single flying tabernak.

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      2 months ago

      How does anyone manage to keep allll the words pronunciation and spelling they know is already amazing, craming pronouns on top of that isn’t much worse

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      2 months ago

      It’s likely the same as English spelling. Just years and years of repeated exposure, and you eventually pick up most of it through osmosis

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      1 month ago

      It is not a problem for native speakers though. These kinds of things are only something you think about if you are learning it as a second language later in life. If you grew up with them you just aborb the information and use it without thinking about it.