“Thanks for the info, I knew that Belgium and The Netherlands were very closely related, I didnt realize that Dutch and Flanders were the same language (Just differnet accent).
FYI Australian English is not related to American English, its the same language. I think English is the only world language where speakers can understand each other over 95% (There are always local differences like Lift vs Elevator or bathroom vs toilet vs water closet or Soccer vs Football) but you can almost always figure it out fairly quickly”
That’s what I meant – just like US English and Aussie English are the same, so Dutch and Flemish (that’s the proper name of the Flanders accent/dialect) are the same. The same language with a couple of different words and a slightly different pronunciation (for example: Belgian Dutch-speakers, and southern Dutch, cannot properly pronounce the sound of ?/?).