(03-08-2019, 04:52 PM)ppppenguin Wrote: I'm assuming Flemish is pretty close to Dutch in all of this.
Flemish is actually a number of dialects of Dutch which are so dissimilar that speakers from different regions have to resort to the high level language, Dutch, to be able to converse. All Flemish radio and TV broadcasting is in Dutch.
A few years ago, an awards ceremony was televised from Antwerp. A woman who'd won The Only Way is Flanders or some such tripe was asked to do the commentary.
Being a local, she did it in the local dialect which meant that only about a third of the viewers could understand what she was talking about!
