Polish people in Belgium

I was quite surprised there wasn't a thread here about Poles in Belgium, since there are really quite a lot of them here...

Anyway, I live in Antwerp and I'm looking for people from my age category (I'm 19) to speak Polish with. I have no idea where to start looking on my own so making a thread here isn't a bad idea I guess...

I was raised in Dutch and Polish, but I never spoke Polish much, only with relatives. So now I've started taking evening lessons Polish to improve my pronunciation and learn how to write it. But I don't want to limit myself to the classroom and actually use Polish on the street from time to time.

So, now I wait for replies here. Maybe I will go have a look in the neighbourhoods where a lot of foreigners live.

O and have a look at my profile, do I look Polish to anyone?

cheers

Dutch and Polish? Not Flemish? Essentially, they're the same language, but there are substantial differences in vocab. pronounciation, even grammar. A good comparison might be British vs. American. In Dutch, f. ex. 'schoon' means 'clean', in Belgium/Flemish, it means 'pretty'-:) etc..

Flemish is not a language, it's a name that is given to a group of dialects spoken in Flanders. I come from Antwerp, and my dialect sounds totally different than what is spoken in the province West-Vlaanderen or Limburg... But yea the official name is 'Dutch', which also includes what is spoken in the Netherlands and by some people in Suriname.

True, but Dutch texts do refer to 'Vlaams' as the mother tongue of all Dutch-speaking Belgian nationals, with the exception of the Walloon minority near the French border.

... and a tiny little corner of northeast France. I'm not sure the Walloons are a particularly small minority - 31% is quite a major minority, meaning that the Flemings must be a minor majority. Possibly. There's a little German-speaking corner of Belgium too (the people, not the actual land itself).

Who could possibly ignore Baarle Nassau / Baarle Hertog?

It's more than 31%.

Belgium is a small kingdom with a federal government, 3 communities, and 3 regions for a little bit more than 10 million inhabitants. Flemings are indeed the majority, Walloons come second, and people from Brussels (officially bilingual) third. The German-speaking minority is usually called Walloon too.

Now Flemish politicians want to change Belgium into a confederacy... to be continued.

Already found some people, thread (gone off-topic anyway) can die now.

I am a Belgian living in Poland, good as well? ;-)

any polish girls in Belgium ?
get in touch with me Gator1302@gmail
xxx

Hite,

Flemish or Vlaams is a language of his own and not a combo of dialects.
Your description may be offending Flemish people who don't speak a dialect but regular Flemish.

Just for clarification...

gtrz

s.

AND 'schoon' means pretty to us, but if we write (not to friends, but for example in school) we are not aloud to use this, because it's not correct. so it IS dialect. Pretty is, also in Flemish, 'mooi' :)

I'm living in Poland at the moment and I'm Belgian.
In January I'll moove back to Belgium, any Polish people in Antwerp who are giving private Polish lessons?
Cheers