If you intend living in Ath, that's in french speaking region, so
either you learn french or go in the Flamish region...
Zoot
On 25 jan, 00:40, "Aksimian Minsskij" <
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> > As you might know, the official languages of Belgium are French, Germanand
> > Dutch.
> Yes. True.
> > You are better of learning French, as that is a world language, that willNo. Never. I hate French too much. Even though I intend to live in Ath (Aat)!> serve you better in many countries around the world.I don't need world - I need only the Netherlands and Germany.> For questions about Belgian culture soc.culture.belgium may also be an
> > interesting source.OK, I think that once I used to seen it.
>
> > As you correctly pointed out, Flemish is a dialect of Dutch, which means
> > that the Dutch and the Flemish even have troubles understanding each other:
> > their television series are subtitled !
> > So the actual region in which you can use Flemish is, very, very small,even
> > smaller than you would think.Yes - that's only Belgium - nothing more.
> So Flemish can be called "Belgian" language since it's not used outside Beglium.Possible for the first time English may be OK? Since you all seems to speak
> English in Belgium because instead of learning language of the other 1/2 of
> Belgium you prefer to study English (or e. g. Esperanto) - to understand ALL
> world, - true?Or probably lerne Deutsch? Warum nicht?
>
> P. S. I also thought that have made an error by posting in be.politics but
> soc.culture.belgium appeared to be... frankophone one! :(