For the last seven years youngsters with surnames from the Indian subcontinent have won the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bees. Why? Because they work at it.
French, Italian and Spanish have genders for nouns that people have to learn so that the equivalent of “the” is correctly matched by gender.
German has case endings for nouns and adjectives as well as gender that all have to be learned.
Luckily English no longer has either.
We have some gendered words, for example ships are referred to as “she” and “her”. But there are not many.