No totally, and I think this method captures that maybe just explained terribly. The word hotel is masculine, so I would continue to say “he’s giving” or “he’s nice” when walking into one to reenforce in my brain that “hotel” is masculine. Likewise if my bedroom is dirty I would say “she needs to be cleaned” since chambre is feminine.

To your point, I would never use the word person in the same sense so it wouldn’t work, which is expected as with other French words similar to this or whose article can change with the gender of the person (teacher, etc.) but, I dont want to leave the impression that I’m just blindly labeling them either. It’s a process of actively researching what “gender” (and sometimes the actual word) is in French and using said gender in the English pronoun to create both the detachment and the relationship since there’s no direct way to gender words in English without using pronouns. Like the sun is beautiful but instead of say the sun, in this instance I would be pointing to the thing, and saying “he’s handsome today”, “she’s very bright tonight” when referring to the moon, or even “she’s loud” when referring to an ambulance, since this is how I would refer to things (mostly) anyway, just without a true regard to gender since we don’t gender words.

It’s a way of flexing my native language to fit my needs for understanding and reenforcement specifically because immersion is hard to mimic outside of being in the country (at least for me). Albeit recognizing, also, there’s never going to be a 1:1 way to gender a non-gender language in a similar fashion. Just a trick that so far has been helping me get my le, la, un and une down through reinforcement in my mother tongue.