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Hi Bismuth. I'm from Hasselt and it's good to see others from Belgium here.

Welcome Elmarginalo! I'm from Hasselt. Good to see others from Belgium.

Many thanks to all for the input. It's much appreciated.

Let me know when you move back here mate.

Cheers Joe, I appreciate the offer and I will PM you. I'll do my best to learn the language better before the classes start.

Cheers Bigred. I really want to take the step into blacksnithing and I'm pretty excited about it. Funny that I'm going to be learning in Dutch as you did.

Hi everyone. I'm new on this forum and I thought you all would be perfect to help me with a question. I'm a native English speaker living in Belgium. I speak and understand Dutch well enough in a social setting, but yet it is still not really good. I'm signing up for a blacksmith course (night courses) and I'm starting to question my ability to learn in another language. So my question to the blacksmiths that teach (and the rest of you) is; is watching as or more important as understanding what the teacher says? I'm going to have to work on my Dutch, and I'm buying books and watching youtube like mad to get a firm understanding on the theory just so I have it a bit easier in class. But must my language be fluent?