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(06-26-2018 12:03 PM)Thomas Okken Wrote:  Huh! I haven't had that experience, I would speak Dutch in Flanders and so would they, no problem. However, I could imagine it being a different story depending on where in Flanders you are, since there are parts where they speak a dialect that is so thick that even other Flemings can't understand it. I've seen such dialect speakers be subtitled, in Dutch, on Flemish TV.

I have friends in a small village called Beert, between Pepingen and Halle just SW of Brussels. The son is a lawyer and he got some work in (I think, this is going back a few years) 's Hertogenbosch. He was extremely self-conscious about speaking Dutch and admitted that he would have been embarrassed by his accent. Even knowing that he was Belgian and "nederlandstalig" his Dutch colleagues always spoke English to him. Never Dutch. I asked why that was and they told me it was actually commonplace for Vlamingen and Nederlanders to refuse to speak Dutch together.

A similar subtitle thing happened in France a long time ago and remained in my memory because I nearly pissed myself laughing. There was a French Canadian series broadcast on French TV. I don't remember the name but I do remember that there were French subtitles on it!