Content by tag : Language
Nearly half of all kids living in Brussels grow up in a multilingual family, according to research carried out by the ULB sociology department.
The Flemish and Walloons don’t get along. Or do they?
You can conjugate in French, you can get your tongue around most Dutch pronunciations, you might even have a smattering of German.
The Brussels branch of Huis van het Nederlands (House of Dutch) have produced a practical guide to help teachers talk to parents who speak very little Dutch.
The hiring of new firefighters and parademics in Brussels could have to be put on hold this summer - for a typically Belgian reason: negotiations over language.
Brussels’ universities ULB (French-speaking) and VUB (Dutch-speaking) have opened a discussion on the possibility of launching a non-fee-paying international school.
Dutch-speakers in Brussels should refuse to speak any other language on a given day each week, a Belgian federal MP has suggested.
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert council has fallen foul of a Brussels language law - after a court ruled that it had given French-speaking residents different local information to Dutch-speakers.
It’s a complaint often heard in Flanders: No one in Brussels speaks Dutch.
