I guess you mixed up something. There are three Frisian areas: North Frisian is spoken at the North Sea coast of Germany south of the Danish border by a minority of about 30.000 speakers - official language here is German. East Frisian has been reduced to a small group of about 5.000 speakers in north western Germany near the dutch border - official language here is German. West Frisian is spoken by a greater minority in the northernmost Netherlands, it's separated from Germany by another region - (second) official language here is Dutch. Further more there is a dialect continuum on both sides of the dutch-german border. But these are Lower German dialects, a language related but distinguished from the official High German standard language. To make it even more complicated the Dutch are very good in languages, many of them speak a very good German, English and French ...Sully23 wrote:I was just trying to explain a theory that maybe it was Dutch and I assumed it was a Frisians it was a region where German was spoken iwesn addition to that language it was easy to speak English (a bit of searching on the internet since I am not European)
But this family obviously speaks German as their native language (and a german variant, not austrian or suiss) ...
Many people do, maybe even you. If you speak a dialect at home and standard language in contact with outsiders you have two languages as well. A member of a language minority does actually the same, though his dialect does not belong to the same language as the official language ...Sully23 wrote: it is not easy to understand a European can speak many languages (America only speaks English and Spanish)
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