What are you listening to this minute? Just curious

Don’t know that movie… La famille Bélier… Will look it up and see if I can download it…

Language is very important… Wars have been started because of people misunderstanding language…
I have no diploma at all (quit highschool at 17 because of my pregnant girlfriend at the time) but I’ve always been eager to learn… Only knowledge and understanding other people’s language can create tolerance towards them. Especially in today’s multicultural world…

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Also, I have only 1 Belgian friend, so I’m forced to be able to speak other languages :grin:

Another country where the inhabitants speak multiple languages… Just as Belgium and Switserland…
In Belgium we have three language communities so we are obliged to learn them if we want to understand the other Belgians…

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You are sure right!

I’m not very talented in language so.
Was really bad in English, even nearly didn’t graduate cause of it.
My French was better, all the vacations and student exchange.
And everytime I wanted to say something in English, there was just French.
Now it is the other way around.

:joy:
:confounded:

I wished this as rule for every country!

Oh, there are so many languages I would love to speak: French, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Turkish, Italian (What a beautiful language)
Sigh

Hey @anomalia :hugs::heart:

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I’ll join the converstion after someone learns anomalish. :slight_smile:

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Hey,
You are a language genius!
Don’t set your expectations to high up :kissing_heart:

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Tadaaaaa🥳 lol

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I’ll learn you some Dutch (not Flemish which is actually my first language, but it’s similar to Dutch) (oh fun fact, I live in the west of Belgium, an area that has a sort of Flemish that isn’t even understood by other Flemish people, some take even courses to be able to understand us :rofl:)

So this should be easy for you
(from left to right… English, German, Dutch, My Flemish)
The lake… Der See… Het meer… Tmjer
The sea… Das Meer… De zee… De zjè

Hi @framos1792 and @anomalia :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed:

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:joy::joy:

You got it :rofl:

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It has similarity to platt deutsch.
Oh, platt is a language I also would like to speek.
But after years of living in the north, I’m just happy to understand it.

My mother in law just spoke platt with her parents, but sadly didn’t teach her kids.

Isn’t that similar too “Friesch” in the north of Holland? Come to speak of it, it actually does have a lot of similarities to my Flemish… When I hear Friesch, I understand a lot of it…

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I think so.
It is a language on his own.
No dialect

They all have similar roots.
It gets interesting with the slavish rooted languages like polish and no similarities at all.

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I know, so is Friesch and my “dialect” has also be named a seperate language by other Flemish people…

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This is my language…
Btw, these guys live about 15 minutes from where I live…

Don’t mind the wigs on this one, they’re in fact all bald :rofl:

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That video :joy::joy:

I can’t understand anything, but it’s fun to listen.

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For everyone who will ever come to Flanders, learn this sentence…

Kant voelen inmin klotn…:rofl:

Not without a believable translation.

Had that already! Learned an Argentinean insult, tried it on an Mexican. Totally different meaning there :flushed::speak_no_evil:

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That’s dialect

My stepdad :blush:

My favourite as a kid

Or English :upside_down_face:

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‘t west-vloams (my language) is actually a very “dirty” language… We use a lot of swear words and it’ s very shabby…

I guess you could best translate it as “I can feel it in my balls”. But it’s more than that, it’s difficult to describe, guess you have to be born in it to fully understand.

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For real? I like his voice…

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