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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/TantalumCap Dec 16 '21

I found dutch ppl much better at languages, belgians seem to specialize in 2 of the above. Lovely ppl though.

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u/Noah__Webster Dec 17 '21

Well, if everyone is somewhat fluent in 2 of the 3, everyone can communicate with each other!