{"id":98885,"date":"2026-03-31T16:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/98885\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T16:30:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:30:48","slug":"new-in-belgium-why-does-every-website-assume-i-speak-flemish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/98885\/","title":{"rendered":"New in Belgium: why does every website assume I speak Flemish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pYyYOsz1iw6ClPOXIPoW-WrEaTY2ZtaERNV3FJSetNU.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>I live in Brussels. I speak French as a third language. I have never spoken Dutch (even though I&#39;d like to learn). I always change language to French or English asap when I enter a website.<\/p>\n<p>VERY often, websites will not have the language choice immediately available. Recent examples: <a href=\"http:\/\/action.be\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">action.be<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/myprotein.be\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">myprotein.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/myprotein.be\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">myprotein.be<\/a> 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&#39;d think that they&#39;d AT LEAST offer the language change?<\/p>\n<p>Help<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON --><br \/>\n<br \/>&#8212;<br \/>\nIamWatchingAoT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I live in Brussels. I speak French as a third language. I have never spoken Dutch (even though&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[44],"class_list":{"0":"post-98885","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belgium","8":"tag-belgium"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@forums\/116324767074474847","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}