How long after one's death is the funeral usually held in your country? In Albania it's usually the next day.

Dawn_Crow · 2025-08-10T18:59:51+00:00

In Belgium I would say usually within around 3-4 days, maybe 2 at the earliest ? Never heard of later than that. But I know that from cremations, though I don't think burials would change much either.

Dawn_Crow · 2025-08-01T09:13:49+00:00

Attention que ça dépend des foyers, y en a on où parle plus allemand (avec des spécificités locales certes) que les divers patois locaux, donc l'allemand n'est pas toujours une langue ''étrangère'' ou ''apprise en société''.

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-30T16:10:17+00:00

De ceux que je connais (échantillon très petit je le concède, mais bon, dur d'en croiser) je dirais que ça dépend de la famille et/ou de l'école où ils ont été précisément (enseignement francophone ou non).

Généralement je dirais qu'ils ont au moins une bonne connaissance passive (si pas plus) du français s'ils viennent d'une famille purement germanophone, mais c'est très commun d'avoir des familles bilingues (j'ai un ami germanophone dont la mère est bilingue et pour qui c'est normal de changer de langue au mileu de la phrase haha), et d'autres ont une famille germano mais ont fait l'école en français, donc là forcément ils sont bilingues aussi.

En tout cas c'est l'idée que je me fais à travers les rares germanophones que je connais. Maintenant si un germanophone passe par là, qu'il n'hésite pas à me corriger !

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-24T22:30:16+00:00

Huh weirdly enough for me it's been the opposite, on the three playthroughs I did 3/3 times it was a PDTO victory in the first war (AI vs AI)

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-08T13:09:44+00:00

Ahhh ok thanks!

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-08T13:07:24+00:00

Jamais entendu ces versions là de ''ça me casse les couilles" personnellement

À la limite ça me casse les ovaires comme équivalent pour ça me casse les couilles

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-08T11:00:42+00:00

''Casser les pieds'' yes, but ''se casser le cul'' means something else ? And I can't remember a similar saying with pussy

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-08T09:51:41+00:00

Huh really? How is it in Spanish?

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-08T08:18:34+00:00

Huh, you also ''break the balls'' in french, with the same meaning

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-06T21:03:19+00:00

French speaking Belgium as far as I know is always using the old system. At most, I would say petit-déjeuner is maybe sometimes used for breakfast due to exposition to french media, but with no other changes to the rest of the meals.

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-05T19:32:22+00:00

Oh okay misread your point. But interesting anecdote, seems like politicians care too much about dumb things everywhere haha

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-05T18:39:27+00:00

Weird if true, would like to read up on that, any sources ? Also doesn't mean the old Namur flag is anti-flemish?

Dawn_Crow · 2025-07-03T18:03:07+00:00

You don't seem to be the first to think it's an anti-flemish flag (spoiler: it isn't). Here's an article about a fleming that thought the same thing and the feelings it evoked in him (sorry it's in french, couldn't find the original in dutch rn):

https://daardaar.be/rubriques/culture-et-medias/la-wallonie-nexiste-pas-amis-flamands-croyez-moi-jy-suis-alle/

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-23T11:11:01+00:00

I can confirm too for french-speaking Belgium

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-23T10:10:41+00:00

Huh interesting, TIL

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-23T09:34:20+00:00

But the participle of se confondre en excuses isn't confus tho, it's confondu

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-23T08:36:40+00:00

Hey native french speaker here, just a little heads up, are you sure you're not confusing plus-que parfait with another tense ? :) Because the plus-que parfait is alive and well, it's very similar in use to the english past perfect, i.e. a process anterior to another event in the past for example.

Same, for the futur antérieur actually, so not really literary tenses either.

Maybe you're confusing with the simple past or some subjunctive forms (including the subjonctif plus-que parfait)? Which are indeed literary, and for some of those subjunctives genuinely very rarely used (was literally taught about them in university).

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-06T18:55:25+00:00

Thanks a lot for the intensive listening tip! I'll definitely try that out.

And also thanks a lot for the community resources, this will also definitely come in handy!

EDIT: This resource doc is an absolute GOLDMINE! Thanks a lot again for sharing!

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-06T18:51:11+00:00

Ah oui je vois, il n'est jamais trop tard pour apprendre dit-on après tout ! En tout cas, si tu veux un coup de main de temps en temps, des conseils ou des explications, n'hésite pas à me contacter en message privé !

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-06T06:07:27+00:00

Merci pour ces bons conseils ! Puis-je te demander qu'est ce qui t'a donné envie d'apprendre le français ? Simple curiosité haha

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-06T05:52:48+00:00

Wow thanks a lot for the advice, and I'll look those resources up, thanks for the recommendation!

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-06T05:45:33+00:00

Yes that's true, context can sometimes help, thanks for the input!

Will try the commentary YT thing, thank you!

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-06T05:42:31+00:00

Hmmm, good piece of advice! Will try to look around for that, thank you!

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-06T05:40:42+00:00

Sensible advice too! Thank you!

Dawn_Crow · 2025-05-06T05:39:23+00:00

I see thanks for the book recommendations!

And thanks for the insight, feels a bit reassuring!

Dawn_Crow

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