My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually. I'm bilingual, so I had experience with French.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My parents are both Belgian-born, and so am I, actually.
I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.
We spoke French at home and I didn't know any English until I went to school. My mother was French and met my father when he visited France as a student on a teaching placement.
My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
The English was really my mother, it was never me. Being the daughter of my father, I always felt very French.
I do consider myself as being French, I suppose.
My mother is French, my father is Texan.
My father is Swedish and my mother is French.
I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.
My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England during the war. They returned to Belgium in 1920, and I grew up in the cosmopolitan harbour city of Antwerp, at a time when education in the Flemish part of the country was still half French and half Flemish.