I am a 22-year old student Office Management, I study translating and interpreting of English, French and Spanish at the University College of Ghent. Intercultural Communication is one of my subjects in my study program and for this purpose I opened this blog where I will publish now and then my experiences with people from other cultures.
For a start some background information about myself.
As mentionned above I study interpreting English, French and Spanish. I chose these languages for several reasons.
Firstly I chose French because I am half Belgian and half French. I speak fluently French as I speak it at home with my family. I travelled a lot to France to visit my family who live everywhere in France: Lille, Lyon, the Provence, the Pyrenees...France is a very important country to me and I consider it to be my second home country after Belgium which is my home country. It goes without saying that I am very familiar with the French culture, language and people.Basically I don't see much difference between the Belgians and the French but there are some which I will discuss later.
Secondly I chose English as it is the most important language in the world and people of my generation have grown up with this language thanks to American tv-shows and movies, which are all spoken in English and subtitled in Dutch on Flemish television.
Finally I had to choose between German and Spanish for the third language. I had already taken German classes in high school and I did not like it very much. Besides, I like southern countries, their language and their culture and this is why I chose to study Spanish.
