| Many Flemings have always been proficient in French, while Walloons were seldom proficient in Dutch. |
| Ethnic differences between Belgium's Flemings and Walloons have been sources of social conflict. |
| This was not a particularly easy task as the country is made up of two predominant peoples, the Flemish and the Walloons. |
| The Frenchspeakers, or Walloons, know it is not their own, and the Dutch-speaking Flemish cannot warm to it. |
| We were told not to speak too much at all, as you may upset the French, or the Flemish, or the Walloons, or the Dutch, or the organisers. |
| Because of their proximity to France, Walloons hold the French language in high regard, using it as the standard for their own. |
