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Knock A Shining Dog

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

Expat teens to be taught how to swear properly in Luxembourgish

May 23, 2022

Swearing and cursing in Luxembourgish - bad words

Calling it a matter of social urgency, the Agency for Linguistic Integration has announced a new plan to teach foreign-born teenagers how to swear properly in Luxembourgish. “Many of these teens don’t know how to use a single expletive or bad word in Luxembourgish, or if they do, they sound like a grandmother when they […]

Filed Under: Expats, Featured Article, Languages, Luxembourgish

‘Perform, dammit, and show grandma how many languages you speak,’ hisses expat parent during video chat

May 17, 2022

Expat children Luxembourg languages

A frustrated expat mother has scolded her daughter for yet again refusing to demonstrate her linguistic range during a video call with the little girl’s grandmother. “And how is school going?” inquired the grandmother, aged 65, who lives in a country where people generally speak only one language. “Are you learning a lot?” The mother […]

Filed Under: Expats, Featured Article, Languages

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