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Originally Posted by This Is Not Here
No it does sound like a cushty deal indeed! You speak immaculate English by the way, yet all Belgians do i suppose. My grandparents lived in Belgium for a bit, but hated it because they lived in a really snooty area where the residents often refused to speak English.
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thanks! we start learning english at the age of fourteen. most belgians speak at least one extra language, especially in flanders, simply because no one else in the world actually speaks dutch. an english person can get away with knowing only one language, we'd be screwed.
also, belgium has three official languages, it would be stupid to know only one :P
and indeed, it depends on where you are... i love the cities but the countryside is bleeergh. there's absolutely NOTHING there and most people living there aren't that clever.
one funny thing about flanders is that our dialects are so different that we can't understand each other when speaking them. my stepmother's family lives by the coast, which is a two-hour ride from here, and i don't understand a word of what they say.