>>>>>The employer may have done better by hiring native speakers to pick the right candidates for her, instead of imposing a ridiculous restriction.
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>>>>Those were some good points. Also, the non-native speaker will be better able to communicate in Dutch (in this case) when explaining things.
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>>>She could just steal them from Belgium - they already speak both languages :).
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>>>Though, I've heard that there are more than regional differences between the Dutch Dutch and Belgian Dutch, and from other sources I've heard that it is actually one language. In the former case, the Belgian French may also be suspect as not being the original article...
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>>Flemish (Belgian Dutch) ... What shall I say... I don't want to start a flame ( fleme :) war here, you know what I mean? Oh well, there hasn't been a flame war here since, let me see, at least one week, so let's go. ;)
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>>The Flemings are really stupid. It's a disgrace for the Dutch language. I get the impression that almost all Flemings talk a dialect version only. There are some shows on tv (e.g. survival shows) that have couples from both countries. We don't understand a single word from what the Flemish couples say. We have to read it. Yes, it's translated on screen!
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>How about the walloons? Is tghat the same lang. or another again?

That's (related to) French.