Questions about the Grammatical Gender poster

What’s on the Grammatical Gender poster?

A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. A system that sorts nouns into classes, requiring articles, adjectives and sometimes verbs to agree. The classes correlate only loosely with anything in the world. Around half of all languages have some gender system.; Two classes is common; three is common; some Bantu languages have more than ten.; German 'Mädchen' — girl — is grammatically neuter.; Assignment is largely arbitrary and must be memorised.; English lost gender on nouns between 1100 and 1300.; Its function is agreement, which aids parsing and reference.; With gender — ~half; German — 3 classes; Some Bantu — 10+; Sun and moon are masculine and feminine in French, and the other way round in German.. Learn the article with the noun from the first day. Retrofitting gender to known vocabulary is much harder.

Who is the Grammatical Gender poster for?

Grammatical Gender belongs to the Languages section rather than to a school year, because languages is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning how languages work can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Grammatical Gender poster?

It is a noun-class system. The word 'gender' here means 'kind', not 'sex'. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Grammatical Gender belongs on the wall where that languages work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Grammatical Gender?

Bilingualism, Grammatical Case and Code-Switching sit alongside Grammatical Gender in the Languages section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BilingualismGrammatical CaseCode-Switching

Is the Grammatical Gender poster free to download and print?

Yes. Grammatical Gender downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Languages section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Grammatical Gender poster print at?

Grammatical Gender is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Grammatical Gender loses nothing.Printing guide