Peter Jacobs
Peter Jacobs is a journalist at the Flemish daily De Standaard. He covers current events in Belgium and abroad and coordinates the travel supplement De Wijde Wereld. He also co-authored Langzaam door Frankrijk (“Slowly Through France”), a “slow travel” book with literary impressions of France.
People do not speak exactly the same language in The Netherlands and Flanders, though both are still variants of Dutch. But dictionaries would not distinguish between the two. At least not until Spectrum, a popular Dutch dictionary publisher, with the aid of two linguists, began treating Belgian Dutch as a separate language.