A student blogger shares his experience of picking up a language and getting to grips with a different culture
I'm 19 and I recently moved to Belgium for my first year of university, studying chemistry at the Katholiek Universiteit Leuven.
I thought my mediocre Dutch would give me a head start on other foreign students, but I had a difficult first month or so. Lectures, social events and life in general seemed to pass by in a flash of quickly spoken dialect.
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