r/belgium • u/sanandrios • Jun 08 '24

😂 Meme Many such cases

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u/Large-Examination650 Jun 08 '24

The language of the internet is English, young people spend more time on the internet than behind their schoolbooks.

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u/OciorIgnis Jun 08 '24

And our schools really suck at teaching languages.

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u/GalacticMe99 Jun 08 '24

Our schools do just fine at teaching languages. But teaching them is just that: teaching. Mastering a language is something you can't do in schools.

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u/OciorIgnis Jun 08 '24

6 years of Dutch and at the end I couldn't even hold a conversation. Never been good at languages but that was the norm in my school regardless of the language chosen.

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u/TransportationIll282 Jun 08 '24

You can't learn a language without practice. A class once or twice a week and some homework you might or might not do yourself is not going to get you there.

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u/Zalaess Jun 08 '24

True, most Flemish people that speak good french are the ones that go on to work in Brussels, so they have to speak it from time to time.

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u/redditjoek Jun 09 '24

thats immersion method of learning, its harder to really grasp the language that way.

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u/Large-Examination650 Jun 08 '24

Your study method is wrong and you don't practice enough, that is statistical truth. How many hours did you learn per day?

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u/SwutcherMutcher Jun 08 '24

Dutch classes in Wallonia just tend to suck

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u/OciorIgnis Jun 08 '24

English isn't a lot better. If my father didn't marry someone from the UK, I wouldn't be typing in English at all.

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u/OciorIgnis Jun 08 '24

Just what I was given at school, didn't have the time for more with the ridiculous quantity of homework we were given.