[Cronos]

Gender of words is alien to English speakers. But for me, I found this easier than French -- French assigns "gender" so randomly it's impossible to know by a word what it is. Polish on the other hand is simple in that respect -- if it ends in a consonant then its male, if it ends in an "a" it is most likely female (with some exceptions like "mężczyzna" - "man" :) and if it ends in "o" it is neuter

[dfwgator]

What I like about Polish is once you do learn the way the vowels and consonants work, it becomes easy to sound out the words. It’s the ‘rz’ combination that tends to throw off most English speakers.