• Desert Vixen

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    Hi everyone!

    I cannot help myself from participating in this post because of the exchange of ideas going on around here. I am very new here in Belgium (just 3 months to be exact) and I plan to start a new life here with my husband (a Belgian national). Like what some of you mentioned, communication is such a challenge. I live in west flanders where people speak Dutch and only few can speak good english. I'm going to start my intensive course in Dutch by September and people tell me that by the end of it, I'm going to be fluent in Dutch for sure. But I'm still very worried of finding myself a job. Does anyone of you know companies which hire people who have English as their primary language (and Dutch only secondary)? I've seen some already but most (if not all) of them are in Brussels and the city where I live is more than an hour drive to Brussels. So yeah, finding a job is what worries me the most. :(

    I feel that no matter how fluent I get in speaking Dutch, I would never be as comfortable as speaking in English. With that, I am also thinking that maybe I'm never gonna make new friends (as in very close friends) here. I hope I can be like Chalks who makes the word "migration" seems like an easy word. ;)

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