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Yeah, well, you've got all those damned gendered nouns with all their special articles and pronouns.

Yes, grammatical gender (is that what it's called?), seven cases (and I don't know how many declensions) are not very simple for a foreigner, I immagine Where have you been exposed to those?

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What's so hard about English articles? You've only got three (and two of them are the same, really), distinguishing between a specific thing and a general thing. Or do you mean where to use them and where not to use them?

Well, for example, I remember (vaguelly - it was 30 years ago) learning about 17 situations where definite article is ommited, although by general rules it should be there... (Eg. one goes to the prison to visit somebody, but to prison to serve time, or something like that)