Deutsche Sprache, Schwere Sprache.

German is hard.  That is the title of this post, according to the ‘idioms’ bonus lesson I eagerly unlocked on Duolingo, only to not understand any of it.  As an ignorant English only speaker, I’ve found that the thing I really struggle with learning a new language is that I don’t actually know English grammar.  German, I learned early on, has three genders.  What is a ‘gender’?  In English I only know male and female… Do we have these word genders?  I’ve no idea.