I live in Brussels. I speak French as a third language. I have never spoken Dutch (even though I'd like to learn). I always change language to French or English asap when I enter a website.

VERY often, websites will not have the language choice immediately available. Recent examples: action.be and myprotein.be

myprotein.be literally has no option to change languages visible as you enter the website. It pissed me off and pushed me away from being their customer. Why do businesses do this? I know Flemish speakers are the majority of the population but you'd think that they'd AT LEAST offer the language change?

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6 comments

  2. You kidding me? As a native Flemish speaking person, I can tell you the large majority of websites associate Belgium with French.
    Especially American companies seem too ignorant to realise there’s more than one language on the country.

    And I agree with you. They instantly lose me as a customer. It’s lazy behaviour.

  3. In flanders I get annoyed with tons of websites assuming I speak french. I guess they just don’t bother splitting up the different regions

  4. that’s strange as i constantly annoy myself on websites that show french by default. usually the language is in the url and i change it there

  5. The language is very random for Belgian websites in my experience. I also live in Brussels. At times it’s Dutch (yay) at times it’s French (fine, I’ll change it). No website is mandatory to have bilingual offers might be their market is currently focused on Flanders.

    Just deal with it lol

  6. I’ve been in Brussels 4 years and all the sites always default to Dutch. I prefer French if possible but can manage website Dutch. But I also don’t understand this.

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