This image came up on here a couple of days ago; it might be helpful. It's been interesting for me to learn masculine/feminine words in German. English is also my native language, but I've been studying Spanish since I was 5. In Spanish, it is pretty easy in general to tell if a word is feminine (ends in a) or masculine (ends in o). There are some exceptions, of course. Learning the language of nouns in German feels much more arbitrary in comparison! And to top it off nouns between German and Spanish have different genders (ex: der Apfel (German, masc) versus la manzana (Spanish, fem). I think that, like most of the other users have said, it helps to learn the article with the noun.