I don&#x27;t think anyone would dispute that gendered pronouns make learning a language harder. Here in the US most kids will learn a rudimentary amount of a foreign language in school, at which point they realize just how lucky they are that most nouns in their native language use gender-neutral pronouns (I distinctly remember wondering just what made tables female when we were required to say <i>la mesa</i>). There&#x27;s even a famous Mark Twain essay where he laments at length the chaos of German&#x27;s genders: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utah.edu&#x2F;~gback&#x2F;awfgrmlg.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cs.utah.edu&#x2F;~gback&#x2F;awfgrmlg.html</a>