See title. I’ve been to quite a few local language meetups and saw lots of people IRL who are learning languages: wondering how are y’all doing too
For myself… learning French due to necessity. I am making progress, just veeery slow. I underestimated how difficult it would be (a lot of vocabs between English/French are similar… but the languages themselves are not!)
Let me guess, Quebec? Your experience is the intended effect of those laws lmao.
Brussels. Officially bilingual but most people speak French. I’m legally allowed to get things in Dutch (the other official language) but I know even less Dutch than French… I promised myself to start learning Dutch once I get to B1-B2 French
Due to historical reasons language is… a sensitive issue here. And since I work in academia (which were at the center of said language issue), my employer insists on communicating everything in French. For example I think half of the HR and IT teams don’t speak English
I see, the situation in montreal is fairly similar, so I assumed it was quebec, language is also a very sensitive issue here.