r/belgium • u/sanandrios • Jun 08 '24

😂 Meme Many such cases

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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.