Brussels, how many languages do you speak? 

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love the fact that you're letting us listen and enjoy the sound of the town, no music, so relaxing and real

I am Chilean, I lived in Brussels for a year, It happened to me one day that I had to be the interpreter between two Belgians who did not understand each other, one spoke only Duch and english and the other only French, believe it or not

I’m Polish and the little Polish kid said “lubię dupy” which means I like ass and when you asked him what it means he started giggling and showed you waffles 😭😂 waffles in Polish is Gofry pronounced “Goh-frih” 😂

Flemish is not a separate language, it is Dutch as spoken in Belgium. It's like American English vs British English.

Brussels is such an underrated city. I loved my years there, it's one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe, you can meet the whole world here. And you didn't even visited the European neighborhood or Matongé, wich have so many languages variety ! Thanks for the video.

As someone from Belgium (French speaking, far from the capital, but still :)), I must say this has been SUPER enjoyable. Some people have a bad image of Brussels for some reasons ... but they are wrong and just watch too much tv / see only the negative sides. I love my country and I love my capital.

Belgium is one of my favorite countries in Europe. I love Brussels. Hugs from Serbia

The French teenager girl has a beautiful, deep voice. The Indonesian woman is extremely sympathetic. A rare jewel.

This is very humbling. I come from England and most people only speak one language there. I now speak French as well because I live in France, and I have a bilingual son, but I am unusual in that. The notion that people from many other countries routinely speak at least one other language fluently is a shock to most English people. Respect to all those clever and extremely cosmopolitan people!

Javanese is not a dialect of Bahasa. It's a separate language.

I'm from Brussels, grew up in Flanders and learned Dutch (native), French (8 years), English (6 years), German (3 years) and Spanish (2 years) in high school. By the time I was in my final year, I had ALL these languages at the same time (add Latin too, but of course it's not spoken). I'm no exception. Everyone in my class did it :) I went on to become a fluent German speaker, I learned Italian, didn't further develop my Spanish (it's now my weakest language), and during lockdown I added Irish to the list. Latin came in SO useful for learning all these languages, especially when it came to Irish grammar. I feel very lucky to have had my high school education in a Flemish school. Thank you for highlighting our language skills as people from Brussels in this video!

i’m an american who’s moving to brussels soon. thank you for putting light on a great underrated city

That's something I like about Belgium. It's a small country but when you grew up there you can easily speak three languages like French, English, flemish and also Dutch, German. It's a very unique country un Europe even if you have others countries like Luxembourg and Switzerland where they have a good level in languages.

It’s so good to see that there are nice people all over the world. Things are bleak here in the States, so we have to work at staying positive. Best to you all.

From Brussels here, our city may not be the prettiest overall, but I definitely feel it's one of the best atmosphere to live in. Growing up in such a multicultural city makes you much more comfortable and curious about other cultures, because they are the ones of you kindergarten friends rather than something foreign and enigmatic. I also really like the space here, for a capital city it's definitely not overcrowded, you often see people you know on the streets and it's generally pretty calm in most places, but it definitely doesn't feel empty. Like walking here feels pretty comfortable since the sidewalk is large (unlike in Paris for exemple) and it's not as car reliant as some US cities. Don't get me wrong, there are still a lot of problems in our city. As I said earlier it's really not the most pretty place in the world, even if some parts are very nice and underrated, it's definitely not a dream post card city. Our transportation network really could be better, the tram and buses are fine but the metro here is a joke, we have essentially two lines numbered 1 to 6 (yes I know) and it doesn't go to most places. It's also not the cleanest or safest city, but I think its bad reputation is very overplayed, if you go nearby I advise you to make your own idea of the city.

Loved this video as someone from Brussels 🐢!! I just want to say that Flemish really is just the name that is used to refer to Dutch as spoken in Flanders. The difference between Dutch in Belgium and Dutch in the Netherlands mainly lies in pronunciation and some vocabulary. It's much like the difference between American English and British English, where there are standard pronunciations that everybody understands and then there are some extraordinary dialects that are hard to understand for most people. Also, since I am Dutch speaking from Brussels, I would never in a million years say I speak Flemish, since Brussels does not belong to Flanders despite being located in it. I love Flanders, but I am not Flemish and neither is my language - French speakers from BXL often get this wrong 😁

Nice video, well done and I agree with other comments that its refreshing not to have to hear people talking over music. Lived in Belgium 7 yrs and loved going to Brussels. I speak fluently 6 langues English, French, Spanish, Flemish, Italian, Lingala, and passable German, Portuguese, Swahili, Russian and a little Mandarin, Cantonese and Swedish.

love this video!!🤩🤩. anyway, Javanese isn't dialect of Bahasa Indonesia. It's completely different language, and Javanese is the second most spoken language in Indonesia after bahasa Indonesia.

The guy with the parents that didn't teach him French because they wanted you to not understand, I feel you bro. My mom never taught me her language. She said it was because we already had 3 languages around the house and a 4th would be too much.. It may have started off like that but I'm sure she was very happy I could not understand what she and her best friend from the same country as her were talking about. Me and my brother always knew when it was about us though because she would use our names and we'd be like "what are you saying about me?" She ALWAYS said "No we are talking about ANOTHER Fuzzy Logics!" 🤥

I'm an introvert person and I barely travel because i'm alone and don't want to travel alone. Thanks for making these videos and make me feel like interacting with people abroad :)

I love seeing these brief encounters with strangers about languages 💜

Great job, Dan!

Congrats for this beautiful work!

Keep going, I really like watching these :) Greets from Österreich

Hello, Dan! Really lovely video and Brussels looks beautiful... I loved it!

Love this channel.

Love these videos.

I just love your content! I love the humanity and respect with which it's filmed, which also allows the essence of the people you film to shine through. I feel I can really "see" them, which is a big gift. Keep it up!

This is starting to become one of my favorite series on RU-vid. It provides encouragement and perspective, especially for a language learner. I look forward to the next!

one of your videos once randomly got recommended to me and from that time i started watching every single video for example during lunch, its just so calming. Keep up your great work!

I love these videos very much! I wish you posted such a format more often because it's so interesting😍😍😍

Nice to see a video on Brussels, as a student in Brussels I can definitely say that Brussels is a great multicultural city! And as a native Dutch speaker (I'm bilingual), 'Flemish' is the national variant of Dutch in Belgium. It is also a dialect cluster, which means that in itself, Flanders has a lot of drastically different-sounding regional dialects as well (This is what the guy was referring to 7:51.). So basically, the official denomination of the language in the Flemish region (and Brussels) is still Dutch. Flemish is not recognized as a language, but rather it's seen as a cluster of dialects and culture.

I have to say that these videos are so great because you know that the people regardless of if they speak one language or more than one, they would love the ability to learn more. Its quite inspiring in a way!

🐢Hi Dan, I clicked on this video randomly and ended up watching the whole thing. Excited to see the rest of your channel!

I really enjoyed this video, is amazing how so many people speaks so many languages!🐢

Thanks for posting that bit at the end dude, I always wondered who the person behind the camera is. You seem like a sound fella. Also nice to know that generally humanity has treated you well. Keep up the good work 👍

I wish one day being in Brussels Love ur videos 🐢

Thanks Dan. I love your videos and enjoy meeting all the people through them. It’s also encouraging for me to continue studying my French. Merci

Amazing as always! Thank you so much, Dan! I'm very grateful that you also did a video from my home town Kyiv. I wish you all the best in your next journey!

🐢 Suddenly I feel like visiting Brussels. Keep up the good work man, your channel is awesome. And regarding the final monologue of the video, its not corny at all. it is about people and I love that. I still remember the incredible story of the last guy in the Barcelona video.

Brussel is very much like Montreal, the same challenges. I really liked the vibe. I remember sitting in a bar, a group of local was speaking french loudly very next. The lady went to the toilet and back from it, she switched without notice in flemish. I found that very cool. Initially Brussel was a dutch speaking territory but a lot of francophones moved and the balance change. Now it's a mix. If you have to settle there, make sure to have the basic in both languages if you don't miss opportunities. I still found incredible some people don't make a single effort in other languages. I know people who when through war and misery but still found the way to learn foreign languages.

Thank you for your videos Dan! Many happy returns of the season and the years ahead! Sorry to say but we sometimes forget how beautiful people can be(( So, thanks again for reminding! Peace

your channel is so cute and positive, wishing you the best

I ❤ these videos

Great work man!

I love what you do! I just discovered your channel today and watched your 6-7 videos in a row. Your project is indeed inspirational. I hope you grow your project and stay as authentic as you are now. Loved the fact that there is no music in the video that we can listen to the city. Come to Istanbul

Dutch and Flemish are literally the same, it's like UK and American English. There's just some minor differences in vocabulary.

I lived in Bru 5 years and I really miss it, as on of the persons from the video said: you feel very comfortable in this city, very free and secure.

Great video! Thanks.

Great video!! So many wonderful people, and I love how honest and self-reflecting they are when it comes to answering such a simple question.

🐢 Hi Dan, how's it going? I really love your "How many languages do you speak?"videos and I hope you get to keep on making these kinds of videos because I'm really into hearing different languages from other people, you know, because it gives me a positive sensation, even if I can understand nothing of what they're talking about, then I can understand pretty well thanks to the English subtitles. I feel super comfortable with no pressure whenever I write in English because is already my second language and my first linguistic love as well. My third language will be French, the fourth will be German and so on. Take care.

Brussels is a very nice place, I did this winter there so being someone who speak multiple languages I was living there happily because in Belgium at least anyone you see might either speak two or three languages and it’s so beautiful and the people are so friendly 😅

I couldn’t agree more. You are correct. Your channel has evolved into something like an ongoing documentary series illustrating the connections we share as humans. I’m always looking to see if you’ve posted a new video. I like how you produce the videos. They have a very down to earth and organic feel to them, and your journey is inspirational to me. Thanks! 🐢

I've been watching your channel for a while and I must thank you for introducing so many people everywhere in the world. And specially for presenting so many languages that I've never heard about. Btw, I'm Brazilian.

8:00 this man was so nice! I guess people learning french would have a easy time with him since he's really articulate and speaks slowly.

🐢 Merci de nouveau pour une autre belle vidéo. Je te dis souvent combien je suis impreesioné par tes efforts et ici je le répète. You truly do a super job in engaging with strangers and getting them to talk to you. It's not easy. I've been to only two cities in Europe: Berlin and Copenhagen. I think both would be excellent if you have not visited them before.

🐢 Your positive energy and love for humanity really come through in your videos. I’m hooked.

So beautiful….always pulls on my heart to see everyone’s’ beautiful smiles… wow oh!!!❤

I love these videos. I’m originally from Philadelphia with a native language of English. I speak French to an extent but I read it much better, I also know a little bit of Spanish just from living around it. I’m nearly fluent in German from living here for university and I speak a tiny bit of Japanese. These videos remind me how vast the world is, I’ve had so many situations where finding a common language with someone was an art form. Cannot wait to visit Brussels!

🐢 Great video ! I live in Brussels since more than 20 year. I'm belgian. I speak french (mother language), English and dutch. And I love to travel around the ancient traditions and contemporary expression from jewelry making in Europe. Every capital in Europe should be interesting for your next stop 👍 Each are different and full of the history from each land. Good luck with your project.

Humans are cool ! That's also the vibes Igat when I look at your videos. Thank ! Keep posting

Good luck getting sponsors. I really enjoyed Brussels.

Been to Belgium twice. Visited Gent, Brügge and Bruxelles. Cool, artsy country, and easy to get around by train, unlike my own country. Melting pot of cultures and lovely architecture. Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪

i love growing up in brussels beacause of how diverse it is. You easili pick up languages. My native language is dutch, i learned english through television, i learned french by just going places like the grocery store here, ive picked up a bit of arabic and polisch by going to school here and we learn german in school. Im only 15 so i hope ill learn lots more

Love the way the language can unite people from different cultures and generations. Learning from each other

Well Done Dan! Very interesting 🌸

I’ve been really enjoying this video series so far. I’m from Japan and I do speak Japanese and English, but your videos always make me fluent in some other languages as well

Every time I watch your clips, I get a wonderful feeling that the world is full of warm and kind people!

🐢 I like the concept of the video ! Good job !

thanks for this video, Dan

Everyone seemed very relaxed in this video. Is that how Brussels is usually?

Wow, the end of this video was so wholesome! Thank you for introducing yourself, really to nice to see the face behind these (: Also I completely agree, this project goes way further than the "languages". It's also about communication, connections, stories. That old man outside the store was so into what he was saying, it's just one of those moments where you can feel a great share of empathy without any further explanation. Also, Brussels seems amazing to visit AND live! Can't wait to visit it asap

Saw your other video about this making the local Brussels film festival. Congrats!

Brussels is a beautiful mix of all the prior mentioned European cities and it has a little bit of everything.

Thanks for your great videos! Anyway, come to Brazil some time 😄

Brussels is a wonderful city! The people are lovely, and do speak a lot of languages! I wish I knew more languages, just my first language and some of another. I work with refugees- and their language skills amaze me every day! They often speak about 3+ languages.

Brussels is amazing. I did love to be in such an international city. Nice video: ))

Living in Brussels since 2019 and loving it ❤

I LOVE the embracing sign in the restaurant window, welcoming one and all (so long as not an A-hole). Fantastic! 🎉

Living for 2 years in Brussels, wonderful city from a language perspective. I knew someone who is fluent in 7 languages, and they haven't studied foreign languages in school, just moving form place to place throughout the years. For me the best feeling is to speak my mother language in a restaurant and although it is a latin based language, very few people can identify it.

The person that has Indonesian as their first language seems to speak impeccable English - they sound like they could have been born and raised in the US Midwest. Interesting. 👍🏻

Merci, Bedankt, Thank you What a lovely content, so peacfull :)

I'm from Brazil, and I love watching these videos, they are very interesting, thank you very much.

I speak five . I grow up in Norway , so norweagian ,. May parents are Iranian , so I speak persian . I lived in italy so basic Italian . I work in germany ,so I speak german . Well i studied English at school ..... I also studied France for two years . so 6 language if that counts . I loved your video i wish I could joy you I love learning languages . You seem to bee a nice guy . Tahnks

Wonderful Belgium - beautiful Brussels - great people !!!

🐢🐢🐢 love these videos! Nice and safe travels!

I'll watch it often because I think I met a travel RU-vidr with a new feeling. The world is really wide and various people coexist. RU-vid videos with various languages are really fresh.

Well, you can say what you want about Brussels but the truth is, it's extremely rare to meet someone who only speaks one language.

I just moved to Brussels, this was so lovely to see! I speak English, Irish, and French, but no Dutch unfortunately - also working on Italian and Danish atm. completely agree that Brussels is a fun place for someone interested in languages :)

Great Video

I love your videos, they are really cool☺💙😍

It is so polite of you that you only ask them to say sth in their native language bc however fluent one speaks a foreign language, it doesn't mean he is fresh to speak immediately. Also it is so polite and warm towards people that when they say they only speak one language, you ask them which one they would like to learn. Learning a foreign language is a privilege not all people had in their lives. 🐢

This is why I fell in love with Brussels when I moved here, and it still fascinates me 18 years later. People mix languages all the time and hold language in high esteem in everyday life. It's a great daily reminder of how wonderful people are.

nice video ! thanks

wow, amazing! By far one of the best. 🐢 I loved the Indonesian girl's laugh when you tell your Canadian 😅

One of the best cities in Europe by far. Moving there soon

10:40. No. I diagree, it's never too late. Don't give up. There are stories of people who've picked up languages late. I think there's even an elderly woman on RU-vid who started learning Russian just to read literature because she wanted too. Matter of perspective / time / energy.

Hi Dan!

Quite cool video! I personally speak 4 languages, Geen Dutch English and Spanish I also understand Italian and German, also a tip for you Dan, if you have ecocheques you can use them to buy train tickets here.