I also hang out over at r/Finland and I swear, 9 out of 10 “looking for a job” posts are the same there (with “Finnish” as language, obviously).
What’s wrong with people that they think they can do without learning the language of the country they want to live and work in?
(says me, who’s French is actually pretty lousy, and who never took the time to learn Dutch 😉
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I’m going to get downvotes, but I did make the effort to learn Dutch until the B1 / low B2 level, and it was basically useless (professionally):
– When the economy is booming and jobs are plentiful, companies won’t care that you speak Dutch, “some Dutch would be an asset, but Engliah is enough”
– When the economy is doing poorly, like right now, companies become super-picky, “Perfect Emglish, Dutch and French are mandatory, and knowledge in additional languages are an asset”
If I knew what I know today, I’d not have spent the time of learning dutch, it’s not an asset to me. I’d maybe had studied German instead.
I’m an engineer btw.
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What I love about the whole situation is you’ve got a large majority of the country that can’t speak the other native language at a fluent level so the work place ends up operating in English anyway.
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This is so stupid…majority of people do want to work
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Some languages just feel kinda shitty to learn/speak. My native language is not germanic and not romance, so not related to either Dutch or French. Dutch was fine to learn, and I speak it fluently, but I just despise learning French. It goes against everything I like. Just the pronunciation sounds so bad to me.Â
I’ve been studying French for at least 10 years. During both my bachelor’s I took French as an elective course, and I’ve been doing evening school to study French after work for at least 6-7 years and I just cannot for the life of me make myself like this language. So as a consequence my French is still shitty after 10 years. Â
I dunno what people do who dislike both Dutch and French, for no logical reason whatsoever. Why does one feel like or dislike, it’s not logical at all.Â
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You can work with your cousin in the pittashop
I usually get rejected for other reasons.
I also hang out over at r/Finland and I swear, 9 out of 10 “looking for a job” posts are the same there (with “Finnish” as language, obviously).
What’s wrong with people that they think they can do without learning the language of the country they want to live and work in?
(says me, who’s French is actually pretty lousy, and who never took the time to learn Dutch 😉
I’m going to get downvotes, but I did make the effort to learn Dutch until the B1 / low B2 level, and it was basically useless (professionally):
– When the economy is booming and jobs are plentiful, companies won’t care that you speak Dutch, “some Dutch would be an asset, but Engliah is enough”
– When the economy is doing poorly, like right now, companies become super-picky, “Perfect Emglish, Dutch and French are mandatory, and knowledge in additional languages are an asset”
If I knew what I know today, I’d not have spent the time of learning dutch, it’s not an asset to me. I’d maybe had studied German instead.
I’m an engineer btw.
What I love about the whole situation is you’ve got a large majority of the country that can’t speak the other native language at a fluent level so the work place ends up operating in English anyway.
This is so stupid…majority of people do want to work
Some languages just feel kinda shitty to learn/speak. My native language is not germanic and not romance, so not related to either Dutch or French. Dutch was fine to learn, and I speak it fluently, but I just despise learning French. It goes against everything I like. Just the pronunciation sounds so bad to me.Â
I’ve been studying French for at least 10 years. During both my bachelor’s I took French as an elective course, and I’ve been doing evening school to study French after work for at least 6-7 years and I just cannot for the life of me make myself like this language. So as a consequence my French is still shitty after 10 years. Â
I dunno what people do who dislike both Dutch and French, for no logical reason whatsoever. Why does one feel like or dislike, it’s not logical at all.Â