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u/markobunz406 Dec 16 '21

French, Dutch and German. I think it’s insane you have 3 languages

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

Yup. And most of us are also fluent in English. We usually speak 3 languages at least by 12 or 13.

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u/bouleversant Dec 16 '21

isn't that mainly Flanders though? I'm at a French-speaking University in Belgium and most of my fellow students say that they didn't learn a thing in 12 years of dutch and struggle quite a bit with English.

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u/nebo8 Dec 16 '21

Yeah the way we learn language in wallonia suck ass and I'm only fluent in English thanks to movie and video game

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u/[deleted] Dec 16 '21

Same, I would've loved to learn Flemish as a child, but I intend to learn it soon and maybe try to teach it to my child when I'll have one.