Servais (il/le)

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.

It’s always interesting to see how less active this one is compared to the ones on Jlai.lu.

• !actualite@lemmy.world has 57 monthly active users
• !france@jlai.lu has 543
• !monde@jlai.lu 168
• !europe@jlai.lu 118

Discussions in French

• !forumlibre@jlai.lu is a chill community in French (think !casualconversation@lemm.ee but in French)

French-speaking countries

• !france@jlai.lu
• !belgique@jlai.lu
• !quebec@lemmy.ca
• !suisse@lemmy.world

For news

• !monde@jlai.lu
• !europe@jlai.lu

Thanks, crossposted to !yurop@lemm.ee