Content by tag : Language
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.
The Word of the Year for 2018 in Flanders is moordstrookje. The word was chosen in publisher Van Dale’s annual public vote.
Good news and bad news for Dutch speakers in the capital: While fewer residents say that they speak Dutch ‘well’ or ‘very well’, the language is being used a lot more lately.
Belgians got a little bit better at speaking English in the past year, but the French-speaking south "continues to lag significantly behind" the Dutch-speaking north, according to a new study.
Huis van het Nederlands (House of Dutch) in Brussels is embarking on the three-month project Model NL to gauge the use of and attitude towards Dutch in the capital.
