Learning french atm, freaking weird.

Bonne Chance!

My native tongue doesn't have articles, imagine learning gender differences there...I always imagine english words with genders too. For example, it's odd to me that cup from Beauty and the Beast is ....a boy (cup is feminine in my language) and his mother is female. It's very difficult for subtitling. For example- He ran away -Who? That cup ran away (she, we gender "that"' as well as "cup", AND "ran")

Why do objects in French and Spanish have genders? I've never understood that.

Oh gosh...I'm learning chinese and this happens too