I'd like to congratulate you on the fact that you make a difference betweenDutch and Flemish in your feature on Languages across Europe. Some people here in Belgium and the Netherlands are ...

I am Flemish and proud of it! Flemish is the language I have spoken for 54 years. I work as an interpreter in English courts and am often called upon to interpret at interviews for the police. I have ...

How does a scientist find out how people adjust their language use when they are together? People start talking differently with someone who doesn't speak their language or is hard of hearing, but how ...

Is Flanders a Continental Ireland? Does the growing violence of the struggle between its Flemish and its French-speaking citizens spell the disruption of Belgium? The answer to these questions is ...

SHORTLY before the war, the eminent Dutch essayist Menno ter Braak attended an international writers’ congress in Paris. Many distinguished writers had spoken before him, and the audience was very ...