for those who find this hard to read, it’s like my dad. he grew up in peru but by the border between peru and brazil, so he picked up portuguese.
for those who find this hard to read, it’s like my dad. he grew up in peru but by the border between peru and brazil, so he picked up portuguese.
Belgian here, let’s be honest, Belgium is an edge case, being with Switzerland the few multilingual countries in Western Europe with large proportion of the population speaking one language and the other (different from the South Tyrol situation below).
Germans, French, Dutch, Italians and Spanish living next to a borders would definitely encounter the situation described in the OP.
There are certainly cases but the situation in general is much more complicated and multi layered that there is anything to learn, without considering it all.
And I don’t like when e.g. language, a obvious part of culture, gets viewed and understood in nation borders.