Well sure, but already with it not mandatory I lacked a teacher for a few years. Can they solve that?
I think the title has left out an existing exception
I don’t think this counts for Eupen etc. where Dutch is the fourth language and also incompatible with taking the Maths option
This is honestly great news. If we ever want to go back to being a functional country, the population needs to speak both Dutch and French (even if just at a basic level).
Hope Flamish people will learn Dutch as well.
How do they plan to enforce this? Are they going to close good schools who can’t or won’t offer Dutch classes? Looking at the state of their education system as it is, I don’t see how this is beneficial in any way to children who want to make something of their lives. They don’t need paternalistic governments imposing their values, they need the freedom to pursue skills they deem useful.
Well, better late than never. Maybe in 20-40 years this mends the rift between Flanders and Wallonia.
As a non-Belgian living in Antwerp I’m surprised (and also unsurprised TBH) by the negativity with this news. If countries like Switzerland and Luxembourg have made this possible, why can’t Belgium? Most people I know here already learned French and seems they speak it more than Wallonians speak Dutch. You can’t so easily move to Flanders and get a job as a Belgian without speaking Dutch, just as you couldn’t if you moved to Wallonia with no French. ¿Porqué no los dos? And don’t say that it should be English. English is already sufficiently ubiquitous everywhere nowadays that most learn it pretty well just through media and social media.
Lol, can anybody say they will be too late. Good chance belgium ends by then.
I don’t understand why this hasn’t been implemented a few decades ago.
It would be more useful to study High Valyrian. Also much more phonetically pleasing than Dutch, which, in my humble opinion of an expat living in Belgium, sounds like you’re trying to expunge phlegm stuck in your sinuses.
What a waste. Just learn English instead it’ll be way more useful.
Er zijn 150 Nederlandstalige kleuter- of lagere scholen + 60 Nederlandstalige secundaire scholen in Bxl alleen. Dat zegt iets denk ik.
Just make english a national language and have people learn that
Learning dutch instead of English is kinda dumb though.
Flanders will have seceded by then. /s
But those are great news. It’s about time. It’s terrifying to consider this will take YEARS to implement.
Très goed !
that’s good ‘n all.. but it’s about 75 years too late.. and irreparable damage has been done already..
Native Flemish here. I disagree with this. It’s a waste of time. Better we all go switch to a single language.
Non-native against native always gives a power-play.
LETS GO
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does flandrians need to studie french atm?
Looking forward to Monday where I can tease my French born colleague that her daughters will learn Dutch as she lives near Arlon. She teased me that my Dutch language sounds ugly in her ears.
It make sense to learn Dutch as I understand that Flanders is the economic stronger part of Belgium. Same in the Netherlands where we have to have a basic understanding of the German language as our neighbor is our biggest market.
inb4 “we can’t find teachers”
Ow, so they will understand us as of then?
This was way overdue, but a great step towards unifying our country
Good, my parents let me choose english as a second language in first secondary class and I think it was a bad choice.
I still think it would be a lot more useful to pick English as the common language in the entire country and spend the mandatory time learning a third language more useful.
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Lmao really?
How was this not the case already?
Well sure, but already with it not mandatory I lacked a teacher for a few years. Can they solve that?
I think the title has left out an existing exception
I don’t think this counts for Eupen etc. where Dutch is the fourth language and also incompatible with taking the Maths option
This is honestly great news. If we ever want to go back to being a functional country, the population needs to speak both Dutch and French (even if just at a basic level).
Hope Flamish people will learn Dutch as well.
How do they plan to enforce this? Are they going to close good schools who can’t or won’t offer Dutch classes? Looking at the state of their education system as it is, I don’t see how this is beneficial in any way to children who want to make something of their lives. They don’t need paternalistic governments imposing their values, they need the freedom to pursue skills they deem useful.
Well, better late than never. Maybe in 20-40 years this mends the rift between Flanders and Wallonia.
As a non-Belgian living in Antwerp I’m surprised (and also unsurprised TBH) by the negativity with this news. If countries like Switzerland and Luxembourg have made this possible, why can’t Belgium? Most people I know here already learned French and seems they speak it more than Wallonians speak Dutch. You can’t so easily move to Flanders and get a job as a Belgian without speaking Dutch, just as you couldn’t if you moved to Wallonia with no French. ¿Porqué no los dos? And don’t say that it should be English. English is already sufficiently ubiquitous everywhere nowadays that most learn it pretty well just through media and social media.
Lol, can anybody say they will be too late. Good chance belgium ends by then.
I don’t understand why this hasn’t been implemented a few decades ago.
It would be more useful to study High Valyrian. Also much more phonetically pleasing than Dutch, which, in my humble opinion of an expat living in Belgium, sounds like you’re trying to expunge phlegm stuck in your sinuses.
What a waste. Just learn English instead it’ll be way more useful.
Er zijn 150 Nederlandstalige kleuter- of lagere scholen + 60 Nederlandstalige secundaire scholen in Bxl alleen. Dat zegt iets denk ik.
Just make english a national language and have people learn that
Learning dutch instead of English is kinda dumb though.
Flanders will have seceded by then. /s
But those are great news. It’s about time. It’s terrifying to consider this will take YEARS to implement.
Très goed !
that’s good ‘n all.. but it’s about 75 years too late.. and irreparable damage has been done already..
Native Flemish here. I disagree with this. It’s a waste of time. Better we all go switch to a single language.
Non-native against native always gives a power-play.
LETS GO
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does flandrians need to studie french atm?
Looking forward to Monday where I can tease my French born colleague that her daughters will learn Dutch as she lives near Arlon. She teased me that my Dutch language sounds ugly in her ears.
It make sense to learn Dutch as I understand that Flanders is the economic stronger part of Belgium. Same in the Netherlands where we have to have a basic understanding of the German language as our neighbor is our biggest market.
inb4 “we can’t find teachers”
Ow, so they will understand us as of then?
This was way overdue, but a great step towards unifying our country
Good, my parents let me choose english as a second language in first secondary class and I think it was a bad choice.
I still think it would be a lot more useful to pick English as the common language in the entire country and spend the mandatory time learning a third language more useful.
30 years too late