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1. Have you ever been to Belgium? Nope.
2. Do you know any Belgian people? At least one guy.
3. Give three words that you connect with Belgium. Chocolate, chips, nuts.
4. Give three characteristics of a Belgian. Same as any others really?
5. Which is/are the official language(s) in Belgium? French.
6. What are the colours of the Belgian flag? Red, yellow, black.
7. Do you think Belgium is a republic or a monarchy? Monarchy.
8. Which religion is predominant in Belgium? Christianity.
9. If you would visit Belgium, where would you go and why? Brussels, because it's the capital and I want to go to every capital city in the EU before I'm 35. I've done two so far!
10. Do you know any famous Belgians (everyone that comes to mind…) Van Buyten, Kompany, the Mpenzas. Three of which are current/ex HSVers. :cool:
11. Do you know a big Belgian company? Nope.
12-03-2007, 11:42 PM
a short research, your help would be greatly appreciated Post #43
1. Have you ever been to Belgium? No
2. Do you know any Belgian people? No
3. Give three words that you connect with Belgium - Beer, Chocolate, EU
4. Give three characteristics of a Belgian - No idea
5. Which is/are the official language(s) in Belgium? - Flemish
6. What are the colours of the Belgian flag? - Black, Yellow, Red
7. Do you think Belgium is a republic or a monarchy? - Republic?
8. Which religion is predominant in Belgium? - Christianity
9. If you would visit Belgium, where would you go and why? - Brussels - History
10. Do you know any famous Belgians (everyone that comes to mind…) - Mpenza
11. Do you know a big Belgian company? Stella Artois?
12-03-2007, 11:43 PM
a short research, your help would be greatly appreciated Post #44
i've been reading the replies with real interest. Seen some surprising stuff (for me personally that is, I'll post them randomly as I don't really know how to use the quotes:
-the language question is really interesting, I'll wait another day with the answer to see some more replies
-i'm glad most people know our flag and form of government, as well as the dominant religion.
And I have to agree that question 10 is biased by posting in this forum, but it's a team assignment so I can guarantee an unbiased result
- only one person knows some belgian companies (congrats, although you made a slight error with the beer company ), really curious to see if there are more to follow.
otherwise I've had quite some laughs with questions 3, 4 ( dull ) and 9, thx for that.
I'll be looking forward to more replies and post the correct answers for the knowledge questions tomorrow.
Merci & goedenacht!
12-04-2007, 12:03 AM
a short research, your help would be greatly appreciated Post #45
Last week I received an assignment for a course in my last year (multilingual communication). I have to perform a small 'multicultural' research.
Now, as I have been reading these forums for quite some time (ever since cm 3 I think :cool: .
To keep it short, I would greatly appreciate it if you would fill out the following questionnaire. Please answer the questions spontaneously (i.e. don't look things up ).
The topic is ' Foreign opinions & stereotypes concerning Belgium'.
- if you don't know something, you can leave it blank, but I repeat: plz don't do any research, you can leave that to me
Questions
1.Have you ever been to Belgium?
2.Do you know any Belgian people?
3.Give three words that you connect with Belgium
4.Give three characteristics of a Belgian
5.Which is/are the official language(s) in Belgium?
6.What are the colours of the Belgian flag?
7.Do you think Belgium is a republic or a monarchy?
8.Which religion is predominant in Belgium?
9.If you would visit Belgium, where would you go and why?
10.Do you know any famous Belgians (everyone that comes to mind…)
11.Do you know a big Belgian company?
Thank you for your time!
Questions
1.No
2.No
3.Booze, Chocolate, Fire-crackers
4.Entertaining, Dumb, Fat
5.Dutch
6.Black, Yellow, Red
7.Monarchy
8.Catholic
9.a little nice coffe shop with chocolates
10.Vanden Borre, Vincent Kompany, don't know any more
11.Leonidas - chocolates
12-04-2007, 12:27 AM
a short research, your help would be greatly appreciated Post #46
1. Have you ever been to Belgium? - Nope 2. Do you know any Belgian people? - Nein 3. Give three words that you connect with Belgium - Chocolate, Europe, Football 4. Give three characteristics of a Belgian - European, ok-ish national team, errrm 5. Which is/are the official language(s) in Belgium? - French, German 6. What are the colours of the Belgian flag? - Red, Yellow, Black 7. Do you think Belgium is a republic or a monarchy? - Monarchy at a guess 8. Which religion is predominant in Belgium? - No idea 9. If you would visit Belgium, where would you go and why? - Brussels (Anderlecht) to see Spurs beat them this week 10. Do you know any famous Belgians (everyone that comes to mind…) Kompany 11. Do you know a big Belgian company? - Lindt, are they Belgian? Stella also.
12-04-2007, 12:41 AM
a short research, your help would be greatly appreciated Post #48
) and 9, thx for that.
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