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Very cool! I laughed so much when I watched a video about foreigners learning Portuguese. The most funny part is when they told that they couldn't understand why the things had gender in Portuguese. For example: "the gender of the word "pen" is female in Portuguese", a American man said ; "but can you see a breast in it?" kkkk A Korean girl said: "I was very happy when I saw that Korea is 'a woman'; and China is 'a woman' too, but why Japan is 'a man'?" In her vision, gender is just about "to be woman" or "man"; whereas to us, Brazilian, the gender is much more than that. I don't think on a pen like a woman... I just use an article that define it as a female... I can't explain... but it is that way because it is.

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Very cool!

I laughed so much when I watched a video about foreigners learning Portuguese. The most funny part is when they said that they couldn't understand why things had gender in Portuguese. For example: "the gender of the word 'pen' is female in Portuguese", an American man said ; "but can you see a breast on it?" kkkk
A Korean girl said: "I was very happy when I saw that Korea is 'a woman'; and China is 'a woman' too, but why is Japan 'a man'?" In her vision, gender is just about "to be woman" or "man"; whereas to us, Brazilians, gender is much more than that. I don't think of a pen like a woman... I just use an article that defines it as a female... I can't explain... but it is that way because it is.

very well written!

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It is, and the same for Spanish for example, we have "el" (masc. article) and "la" (fem. article) and each object has a grammatical gender. In this case, almost all the objects that ends with the "o" vowel are masculine, and all the objects that ends with "a" are feminine, in Spanish Korea and China are feminine too, and also for Japan, since here it is "Japón" and it is masculine. But sometimes it is a problem for us because so many people are not aware that these are just about grammar! And there are many feminists and people changing the language and speaks it without that vowels like "Japxn, Chinx, Korex, Librx" (when it is "Japón (masc.), China (fem.), Korea (fem.), Libro (masc.)...") and so on (these end specify the gender) Oh! The people! Well, but closing, it is interesting, here you can see how the language change the mind of the people. LOL But all what I want to say to those people is just "Instead of kill your language learn a new one and grow up your mind!". By the way, the countries doesn't use the articles in Spanish, the articles are just for the objects and the other words, ("el libro, la familia, el hombre, la mujer..."). Good luck, have fun!
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Haha. Funny entry. It is funny how some people think about masculine and feminine word. But it's understandable when your language isn't based on this particular structure.

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