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<p>[QUOTE="ageka, post: 31916, member: 1485"]I am a Flemish Belgian</p><p>So Netherlandish or Flemish or Dutch all the same is my mother language</p><p>As a Flemish you need to speak French to graduate ( the same was not true for the walloon belgians they only needed a few words of flemish )</p><p>Afrikaans is about 75% Dutch and is classified with Hollandish and Flemish as the same family of languages</p><p>I had to learn South African songs at school like rij mar an ossewage rij mar an ( roll on oxwagon roll on )</p><p>English is my third language </p><p>And since there is a German official language group in Belgium German is my fourth language I speak and read it but write horribly </p><p>I took Spanish for 200 hours and get by ( basic read and speak )</p><p>I was working in Denmark for a week and amazed I understood about 50% of what people were saying , enough to know my appointed translator was not honestly translating </p><p>I worked in Hungry for a week and the language is totally uncomprehensible to me but my Doctor is Hungarian</p><p>My neighbour is fullblooded japanese so there I can get help and she seems to be able to read chinese language very well</p><p>So the only real enigma is Russian and Arabic[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ageka, post: 31916, member: 1485"]I am a Flemish Belgian So Netherlandish or Flemish or Dutch all the same is my mother language As a Flemish you need to speak French to graduate ( the same was not true for the walloon belgians they only needed a few words of flemish ) Afrikaans is about 75% Dutch and is classified with Hollandish and Flemish as the same family of languages I had to learn South African songs at school like rij mar an ossewage rij mar an ( roll on oxwagon roll on ) English is my third language And since there is a German official language group in Belgium German is my fourth language I speak and read it but write horribly I took Spanish for 200 hours and get by ( basic read and speak ) I was working in Denmark for a week and amazed I understood about 50% of what people were saying , enough to know my appointed translator was not honestly translating I worked in Hungry for a week and the language is totally uncomprehensible to me but my Doctor is Hungarian My neighbour is fullblooded japanese so there I can get help and she seems to be able to read chinese language very well So the only real enigma is Russian and Arabic[/QUOTE]
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