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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 3397153, member: 29&quot;]Whoops, indeed Belgium. A total brain fart on my part. I&#039;ve been to Mechelen/Malines, lovely city. </p><p><br /></p><p>I speak German. An entirely different grammar, structure, sound and so much more from Dutch. Never got round to learning Dutch or for that matter, Flemish, although I can make sense of a fair bit of both written languages and sometimes spoken. Same with Swedish. German grammar is far harder. Too many words for &quot;the&quot; by far. </p><p><br /></p><p>No modern day German unless they were AFD would dream of displaying nativist supremacy. I admire that the honesty with which they teach their history. Other countries, mine included, could and should learn from that. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did a fair bit of business in the Netherlands at one point. Used to howl with laughter at the fluency in English of my customers there, especially the motorway curses. Badge of honour. And a very familiar often filthy sense of humour. </p><p><br /></p><p>I strongly believe that if you don&#039;t speak at least one other language than your birth one, it diminishes greatly any hope of understanding the differences in the world. And in any event, languages are fun.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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