The problem

You’re an intermediate to advanced French speaker, but you still mix up noun genders. It's a common issue that can confuse even the most dedicated learners.

Nouns have gender?!

As a native English speaker, learning French as an adult has been challenging—especially when it comes to noun gender. Does "table" really have a gender? "Un chat" (a cat) is masculine, but "une horloge" (a clock) is feminine? Seems like madness, right?

A great trick to remember noun genders is to exaggerate their masculine or feminine traits—think ultra pink and curvy for feminine words, and super muscular for masculine ones. The more outrageous the image, the better! Imagine a French cat sporting a mustache for "un chat," and every clock as a pink princess. (And yes, ironically, 'mustache' is feminine in French!) Even more abstract nouns like "amour" can be depicted in a gendered way that helps you remember them.

Our Innovative Solution

With the help of my French-speaking family and input from language learning experts, we’ve developed an app that turns learning these nuances into a game using fun, sometimes bizarre, hyper-gendered images. Our app targets the nouns that don’t clearly lean masculine or feminine. Forget about words with an obvious gender like "la sœur" or "un serveur" and "une serveuse." Instead, we include words borrowed from English like "un hamburger," often ignored in traditional vocabulary tools. The gameplay is simple: drag the words into pink or blue boxes to categorize them as feminine or masculine. Track your progress, improve with practice, and soon you'll be speaking about "le bol" and "la boulangère" with ease.