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Knock A Shining Dog

He speaks 5 languages but doesn’t know the word for these in any of them

November 22, 2022

Luxembourger doesn't know word for

A Luxembourg man who speaks five languages with a high degree of proficiency has admitted that the flip side is that he does not know the word in any language for certain everyday items. “It’s true that I can speak and understand five languages and get by in two others,” said Gil Martins, who not […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Languages

French-speaking bakery employee who hears 134 variations of ‘croissant’ every day still pretends not to understand you

November 4, 2022

An employee of a popular Luxembourg City bakery chain has insisted that she cannot understand your pronunciation of the word “croissant” despite the fact she hears 134 variations of the word every day. The charade took place on Thursday after you stopped in for a coffee and a pastry around 9:15 a.m. “Un croissant, s’il […]

Filed Under: Expats, Featured Article, Languages

Almost fooled us: this expat greeted the waiter in Luxembourgish, ordered in French, but had to switch to English when a question was asked 

October 25, 2022

Expat English Luxembourg restaurant

What started off as a very convincing show of facile multilingualism quickly fell apart when a Luxembourg City waiter posed a question to the customer.   Until that moment, Max Mirel has convinced himself and his two friends visiting from out of town that he was a regular Luxembourg polyglot, effortlessly dancing between languages after having […]

Filed Under: Dining and Nightlife, Expats, Featured Article, Languages

Whoa, mate: bakery customer is like ‘Sprechen Sie Deutsch?’

September 14, 2022

German in Luxembourg

An obviously ill-informed man walked into a Luxembourg City bakery on Tuesday, looked the cashier straight in the eye, and, according to several witnesses, said, “Sprechen Sie Deutsch?” Obviously, the cashier responded with “non, désolée monsieur” while still making valiant efforts to understand the customer’s incoherent utterances.  Before long, both parties agreed to communicate with […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, German, Languages

French boss throws a little English into presentation and people are like, mon dieu, he’s good

June 30, 2022

French boss Luxembourg English

The French-speaking director of a mostly French-speaking company based in Bertrange has just blown the minds of his team by using several English expressions during an all-hands meeting.  The show of linguistic force began on Thursday at 9:35 a.m. when Philippe Flavy, 45, announced that the company would be moving to a cloud computing service […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, French, Languages, Workplace

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