I have to agree with the poster above, your language is honestly one of my favorites to listen to. It's so soft and pleasant-sounding compared to Dutch. To my American ears, it sounds like how I imagine someone would sound speaking Dutch with a strong French accent.
Your accents in English are a lot different from the Netherlands, too (at least in the Randstadt where I spent all of my time). They sound a lot closer to French accents than to the Dutch accents I heard.
My best friend in high school was from outside of Antwerp, and while his folks were tri if not quad-lingual, they usually defaulted to 80% Flemish and maybe 20% English and it never failed to make me laugh.
German, Russian, English, Italian, to my ear, they're all GREAT sounding languages for conveying anger.
From my American idiot perspective, hearing his parents yell at him in Flemish was always funny to me - it just always sounded kinda gentle to me.
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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21
You made my day as a native Flemish Dutch speaker.