Nyuu's little hangout! ♥

[Anarchist Beauty]

Did someone say Johnny Depp?
>.>

[Nyuu]

I will check it out!

French is Belgium's second language, we all learn it in school, i don't speak it fluently though~ I taught myself English, it's not a requirement here ^^

[galled]

You English is excellent! I commend your self studies.
That's interesting about French. Poirot speaks French so I assumed it was the official language of Belgium. What is your first language?

[Anarchist Beauty]

I wanna learn German, but that's going poorly. lol
Duolingo is helpful but I don't use it enough.

[galled]

My understanding is German is very similar to English. But for me it'd be a matter of not using it enough to "stick."

[Anarchist Beauty]

Yeah, there are a lot of similarities and I do pretty well when I actually stick to using Duolingo daily.
But I'm lazy and often don't feel like sticking to it. >_<

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I was curious because the only thing I connect Belgium with is Chocolate (of course!) and then I searched it and now I recall that you were like at the hub of the World Wars!! What a history that is!

"Belgium, a country in Western Europe, is known for medieval towns, Renaissance architecture and as headquarters of the European Union and NATO. The country has distinctive regions including Dutch-speaking Flanders to the north, French-speaking Wallonia to the south and a German-speaking community to the east. The bilingual capital, Brussels, has ornate guildhalls at Grand-Place and elegant art-nouveau buildings

What Canadian didn't know the Poem "In Flanders Fields" (in Flanders fields the poppies grow, between the crosses row on row...)

I know it was a century ago now for the first world war, but have you seen any residual affects from such a violent history? Do people still find war artifacts?

[Nyuu]

We speak Dutch as a first language ^^

There are still war sites in belgium you can visit, with trenches and all! lots of musea too~

[Lemon Cheesecake]

I think on the Olympics I heard there was a "Flemmish" team and I had no idea what that meant until I searched Belgium.

So you speak three languages then? Can you read them all too?

[Nyuu]

The part of Belgium i live in speaks Dutch, but we learn French in school~ it's optional to learn German too, i didn't. ;'D

I speak and read French good enough and i understand and can read most German but speaking it is harder for me ^^

[galled]

I'm really impressed! I'd never know English wasn't your first language.

[Nyuu]

Thank you! ^^
I've taught myself English when i was around 15, i'm 23 now and i've been in a relationship for 4 years with a British guy so i speak a lot of English when he's here~

[Gingerale]

Wow, very impressive!! I am always amazed at people who can speak multiple languages, when I've tried I get the words mixed up in my head and they just don't come out right when I try to speak them.

[galled]

Your grammar is excellent! --Better than a lot of native English speakers I know!

[Anarchist Beauty]

Very impress, cos I can't English and it's my native tongue.
Aside from Idiot, but that's not a teachable language. lmao