Limburgers can practice 'Mestreechs sjrieve' with the dialect app

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Almost half of all Limburgers speak Limburgish, but most have never learned to write in the dialect. The municipality of Maastricht has therefore had an app developed to teach residents the Mestreechs srieve. Yuri Michielsen, president of the Limburg Academy, is one of the inventors. “We were about developing learning material about the spelling of Maastricht, but not in a traditional way of teaching. By using the game form, you no longer have t…