[Eric]

Sad, maybe, but very interesting. It seems to ironic that Belgium is one of the nearest neighbours to Britain, which is a country where the domination of world language English is so powerful that no other language (except, maybe Polish...) really counts.

As I'm interested in languages, Belgium and Finland fascinate me. Belgium, with its two national languages and one regional one (German), its multiplicity of dialects of Dutch and French, and the fact that language quarrels are serious things, is something that Brits should learn about.