• Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    Was curious how Belgium would score by language region.

    Seems the Flemish part scores higher than The Netherlands while Wallonia drags everything down.

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      4 days ago

      Fairly unsurprising. English is literally harder if your native language is a romance language than if it is a germanic language. Same is true for germanic native speakers who try to learn a romance language.

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        4 days ago

        Except Flemish people tend to speak good French while people from Wallonia barely speak Dutch. I agree with your statement in general, but in the case of Belgium there’s a lot more to it than that.

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        As a native English speaker, I don’t know the language rules in English, I merely speak the language. I suppose the idea is that I can think with the same grammer in English as I can in Dutch or German (except when I can’t) than with romance languages.

        But at the same time, I feel like the Spanish language, is a fairly easy language for non native speakers to learn. It’s phonetical, it’s logical, it doesn’t have ridiculous numbers or times for the clock.

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          But at the same time, I feel like the Spanish language, is a fairly easy language for non native speakers to learn. It’s phonetical, it’s logical, it doesn’t have ridiculous numbers or times for the clock.

          I tried learning Spanish in school for about six years. IDK, maybe most other languages would be even harder, but I found it pretty hard, especially understanding spoken Spanish.