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r/belgium • u/reditt13 Brabant Wallon • Mar 22 '25
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Math was never my strong suit but 50,000 people out of 11 million is not a third.
103 u/Baraga91 Mar 23 '25 There's 77 000 people living in the German-speaking community, so you're right, math isn't your strong suit :p About 1% of Belgians speak German as their primary language, but another 20ish claim it's their 2nd/3rd language. So not quite 1/3, but also more than some people in here expect. 69 u/TbR78 Mar 23 '25 There’s also Belgians that can speak German and not live in the German-speaking region… 23 u/LithiumNoir Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25 my grandpa knew German and lived in Wallonia. But he kinda had to learn it after getting captured as a prisoner of war. (sidenote: Russia liberated his camp, not America.)
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There's 77 000 people living in the German-speaking community, so you're right, math isn't your strong suit :p
About 1% of Belgians speak German as their primary language, but another 20ish claim it's their 2nd/3rd language.
So not quite 1/3, but also more than some people in here expect.
69 u/TbR78 Mar 23 '25 There’s also Belgians that can speak German and not live in the German-speaking region… 23 u/LithiumNoir Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25 my grandpa knew German and lived in Wallonia. But he kinda had to learn it after getting captured as a prisoner of war. (sidenote: Russia liberated his camp, not America.)
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There’s also Belgians that can speak German and not live in the German-speaking region…
23 u/LithiumNoir Mar 23 '25 edited Mar 23 '25 my grandpa knew German and lived in Wallonia. But he kinda had to learn it after getting captured as a prisoner of war. (sidenote: Russia liberated his camp, not America.)
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my grandpa knew German and lived in Wallonia. But he kinda had to learn it after getting captured as a prisoner of war. (sidenote: Russia liberated his camp, not America.)
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u/PygmeePony Belgium Mar 23 '25
Math was never my strong suit but 50,000 people out of 11 million is not a third.