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[Bart]

or Grijsloke as it's called locally.

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[Tony]

Wonderful Black & White Series.  That Black and White never does lose its intrinsic charm.  Many thanks for uploading.

 

TT

 

PS.  By the way, is 

Gijzelbrechtegem German or Dutch?

[Bart]

Thanks, Tony. Appreciated!

 

Gijzelbrechtegem is Flemish, a germanic language closely related to Dutch.

For instance, we understand Dutch but they don't understand us 

[TBonz]

 

Gijzelbrechtegem is Flemish, a germanic language closely related to Dutch.

For instance, we understand Dutch but they don't understand us 

 

The good news is you understand English...I wouldn't have any luck with either Gijzelbrechtegem or Dutch so you are way ahead of me!

[Bart]

 

When I grew up, everyone spoke Flemish at home, Dutch in school.

Learning French from around 9, English from 14 and then some had intensive German courses form 16 onwards.

I only took a sniff of German, 1 hour per week from 16 till 18.  Didn't really stick. 

(And then there were those that took Latin and/or Greek as well)

[TBonz]

Wow!  My language history is strange, especially for those in the US...I attended a rather unique school when I was younger and they emphasized languages...we started French in 1st grade, Chinese (phonetically spelled characters) in 3rd and Latin in 4th...I ended up going to a different school in either 5th or 6th grade with no additional language until 3 years of French in high school...I was decent with French when I was using it regularly, but no longer...I remember really enjoying the Chinese but finding the Latin a pain...

[Tony]

I had been raised in a very ethnic Italian environment.  Grandparents on both sides never grasped English.  I do wonder how it is that some folks can live in another country for sixty or seventy years and not learn the native tongue.  I attended a Roman Catholic Parochial School and Latin was taught there.  In fact, at that time church services were always in Latin.  In High School I studied Italian for two years, but never pursued it later.  At one time on a lark I decided to see what Portuguese was all about and was pleasantly surprised to discover it was very familiar to me.  I did some research on the origins of that language and learned that it is comprised of approximately 90% Latin Phrases.  I was stationed in Italy for a while and when a native Italian saw my name plate, he would start firing off in Italian and I had to inform him that I unfortunately, I do not speak Italian.  Needless to say, they were furious with me.

 

Thanks for reading.  Tony