Saturday 4 July 2009
Saturday 4 July 2009
Stock up on the tastes and smells of home.
A small country with no obvious start or finish.
Sunbeams' guide to the white, blue, green, yellow...
One of the best healthcare systems in the world.
Survive the pitfalls of the city's streets.
Expat women in Belgium and France most satisfied.
A moving piece about a 'school refuser' son.
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All living Livonians can fit into a single room...
Even fluent French speakers sometimes have to ask: Comment dit-on? We offer some practical vocabulary for every-day life.
Almost all the adults I know think that learning a foreign language in adulthood is impossible. “I’m terrible with languages,” they say. Linguists agree, at least in part.
Brussels, that modern Tower of Babel, appears to be coping badly with the language of Shakespeare. James Drew reveals bad grammar on a website can lose a company a lot of money.
"Gradually, foreign sounds find nesting places in your vocabulary and once entrenched, it becomes hard to remember what it was like before they were there."
In our monthly French language column, intrepid Douglas Campbell scours the media and tracks down Le Grenelle, Saving Private Dati and Amy Winehouse.
This handy guide from Expertise in Labour Mobility includes how to write a CV, application procedure, interview dos and don'ts, Belgian management culture.
Belgium’s first alternative directory assistance services - available through the shortcode 14-14 - can now be accessed on the internet.
Moving to Belgium presents a host of challenges to expats, not least of all finding the right home.
The psychological effects of global mobility can be physically painful.
