Re: Dutch/Japanese bilinguals?

From: robert (rverbeke_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/10/04


Date: 9 Nov 2004 23:43:28 -0800

jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote in message news:<2vd4vbF2k5keaU1@uni-berlin.de>...
> Apud robert <rverbeke@hotmail.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>
> Just like in France.
>
> Just like in France. 8-)}

Well, maybe this explains why it is said that some people think
Belgium is the capital of France... Might very well be some sort of
urban legend though.

>
> > The majority of people in Belgium
> >speak Dutch, but for some reason nobody knows this...
>
> Well, the French know for sure that French isn't spoken in Belgium.

But it is!

>
> >However, some of them have heard the word
> >"furamango"! (This is supposed to be my language I guess...)
>
> Well, to commemorate this posting, I've added フラマン語
> and フラマン人 to JMdict/EDICT.

I'm honoured to have caused this addition :-)

Rob



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