I love genders! I tired to learn Czech once, and that not only has three genders, it also subdivides the masculine gender into "animate" and "inanimate" (but this is a grammatical category so it doesn't exactly correspond to living/not living), and then subdivides the animate masculine according to whether the root consonant is "soft" or "hard". Then there are seven cases, all of which are marked by inflections carried directly on the noun, and of course the inflections vary by gender. You have to have mastered half the grammar book before you can say "Hello, Nic[INFL], what a nice[INFL] day{INFL]!"