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Language Barrier

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Hey guys, today I'd like to share a little bit of my experience about language barrier. So, as I've mentioned before, I've lived in Belgium for about 7 years, from newborn to toddler and childhood. My parents are Indonesian and they were studying to get their masters degree and that is when I came to the world. At home, my parents would talk to me in Indonesian language, and at the age of 4 months I had to be taken care by a daycare because obviously my mother had to go back to school and that was the only way possible. At daycare they spoke Dutch, so as a toddler I grew up speaking both Dutch and Indonesian language. After 'graduating' from daycare at the age of 3 I went to a preschool (Dutch-speaking). I spoke Dutch basically pretty much every time and mix it with Indonesian language at home. Then 3 months later our family flew back to Indonesia and I went to an Indonesian preschool. The funny thing was that I was still speaking Dutch and I have adapted this