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Oh dear: Belgium has its own version of the Apprentice
No Threaded, it's Dutch, but not as we know it. The Flemish say they speak either either Vlaams or Nederlands. This is to distinguish themselves from the Dutch as a race, with whom they don't get on at all.
We must strike at the lies that have spread like disease through our minds
Only found this forum recently and was going see if there was anybody out here in Belgium but an informed whinge about local telly and linguitic chipiness answers that one.
I just got cable installed here after a year, ostensibly to improve french listiening skills (not attempting dutch yet), but the quality of the francophone
telly programming makes it an uphill struggle to last more than twenty minutes - it all seems like community access tv. Still, free 'Art Movies' n some French channels after 10 most nights it seems.
On a unrelated topic - is defenestrating ones colleagues considered bad form in the belgian office environment? Just wondering as some people seem to have some strange ideas about continually gobbing of to people and then acting shocked if there is any comeback
Belgium is great. I like it anyway (8 years 4 months and counting - although there was a period on the bench down en France). As for French language skills either get yourself a French-speaking bird (Wild Geese on Thursday night is a cattle-market), or start by watching the news. France 2 at eight o'clock is good. You know vaguely what's going on in the world anyway, and your brain makes the link between the commentary and the pictures, so you start to understand better.
hth
We must strike at the lies that have spread like disease through our minds
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