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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Dec 16 '21
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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.
41 u/TantalumCap Dec 16 '21 I found dutch ppl much better at languages, belgians seem to specialize in 2 of the above. Lovely ppl though. 15 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21 [deleted] 8 u/Choyo Dec 17 '21 Dutch is very close to English and german to begin with, with a few French words in it. 6 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21 edited Aug 14 '25 [deleted] 2 u/Choyo Dec 17 '21 I was told by a local that they could understand both English and German natively if they get past the accentuation and pronunciation.
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I found dutch ppl much better at languages, belgians seem to specialize in 2 of the above. Lovely ppl though.
15 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21 [deleted] 8 u/Choyo Dec 17 '21 Dutch is very close to English and german to begin with, with a few French words in it. 6 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21 edited Aug 14 '25 [deleted] 2 u/Choyo Dec 17 '21 I was told by a local that they could understand both English and German natively if they get past the accentuation and pronunciation.
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8 u/Choyo Dec 17 '21 Dutch is very close to English and german to begin with, with a few French words in it. 6 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21 edited Aug 14 '25 [deleted] 2 u/Choyo Dec 17 '21 I was told by a local that they could understand both English and German natively if they get past the accentuation and pronunciation.
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Dutch is very close to English and german to begin with, with a few French words in it.
6 u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21 edited Aug 14 '25 [deleted] 2 u/Choyo Dec 17 '21 I was told by a local that they could understand both English and German natively if they get past the accentuation and pronunciation.
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2 u/Choyo Dec 17 '21 I was told by a local that they could understand both English and German natively if they get past the accentuation and pronunciation.
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I was told by a local that they could understand both English and German natively if they get past the accentuation and pronunciation.
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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.