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I can still read and write several languages very well.
But I now have trouble with Spanish and my French is not any better.
One has to stick with it, period.
I understand. Europe is a long word to spell. But don't be discouraged, it's one letter shorter than America.
May you, Dutch, re-unite with Flanders to create a new country?Belgium
That I would like to see. But including the French parts of Flanders too.May you, Dutch, re-unite with Flanders to create a new country?Belgium
Brussels + what else?That I would like to see. But including the French parts of Flanders too.May you, Dutch, re-unite with Flanders to create a new country?Belgium
I think Brussels is 50-50. What I would like to see is all the French Atlantic cost north of Brittany to go to the new Flandrian state. Dividing Belgium on its own is useless, I think.Brussels + what else?That I would like to see. But including the French parts of Flanders too.May you, Dutch, re-unite with Flanders to create a new country?Belgium
Another unrelated question: Do you like discussions per SKYPE?
Belgium
Belgium
How is this (only) linguistic division manifested what concerns personal relations between Francophones and Flemish speakers living in the same neighborhood? And if you are bilingual, how often do you speak French on an everyday basis? And what about the language of the armed forces, bi-lingual? Deep in the past, I heard people telling stories about their service in the Austrian army at the beginning of the 20th century: multilingual – a commander of a larger unit gave a command and the command was translated into languages (Czech, Ukrainian, Slovak, etc.) for soldiers of sub-units, who soldiers were of the same nationality (only Czechs, Ukrainians, Slovaks etc.).
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east Europe
That is still a lesser problem than complete assimilation like in France.Belgium
But what we learn from news is that Belgium suffers from the linguistic division, doesn’t it?There were, e.g., cases of parliamentary crisis in this connection there.
east Europe
I believe you are right what concerns Eastern Europe. Partially, it is because many East-European nations have very short experience in living in freedom and democracy; and partially, because the minority groups are patriots of and/or loyal to their national states, rather than of/to the states they are citizens of; and thirdly, partially because in the past they were in master/slave relations (enslaved nations / master nations), hence mutual hatred, and more to it – these master/slave relations may often project into the present, in the form of refusing to use the state languages of newly independent (in the past enslaved) nations, too (“why should we use the language of our former slaves”).
.Is a life-long process. Anyone honest will tell you that any language they learned after the Critical Period is something they are still working on. However, the benefits of learning languages are many and well-documented. These benefits continue even (or especially) into later life. Couldn't hurt to take on one more.