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6 Luxembourgish place names that sound like sex acts*

November 21, 2019

6 Luxembourgish place names that sound like sex acts

Péiteng If you and your partner engage in this, make sure to bring a raincoat and an umbrella. Dikrech  While this might sound like kinky fun, it usually results in an emergency visit to the urologist. Suessem Usually requires at least one participant to make noises suggestive of a vacuum cleaner. Rëmeleng Highly inadvisable, especially […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Languages, Leisure and Lifestyle, Luxembourg Countryside, Luxembourgish

Moien, um, please restructure your administration to meet my linguistic needs

November 20, 2019

Moien, um, could you please restructure your administration to meet my linguistic needs?

Moien, bonjour, and guten whatever. Do you speak English? Great, that’s a relief. Um, could you please restructure your administration to meet my linguistic needs? I know, I realize that would require tens of thousands of civil servants to sort of, um, yeah, take one or 10 English courses, a difficult proficiency exam, maybe spend […]

Filed Under: Expats, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Languages, Opinion

Confusion, anger as man tries to speak to Delhaize employee in German

November 6, 2019

Man tries to speak German at Delhaize in Luxembourg

LUXEMBOURG-VILLE — At least one person was severely confused while a dozen people were left mildly irritated on Wednesday after a man at a Delhaize in the capital attempted to speak German to an employee stocking shelves. “Hallo,” said the man, who was later identified as a Koblenz construction worker named Manfred. “Wo ist der […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, German, Languages, Luxembourg City, Shopping

Monolingual Luxembourger discovered

October 14, 2019

Monolingual Luxembourger discovered

A woman believed to be the only Luxembourger who speaks just one language has been found in the north of the country where she claims to have spent the last 80 years living in a cave. The party of hikers who found the woman on Sunday say she didn’t understand when they addressed her in […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Languages, Luxembourgish

‘Franglais’ recognised as official EU language

August 29, 2019

Amid shouts of “c’est très good” and “at longue last,” Franglais has become the 24th official language of the European Union.  Franglais, a blend of French and English, has been spoken for centuries by the upper echelons of both francophone and anglophone societies, usually by those wishing to seem educated and worldly even as they’re […]

Filed Under: Europe, Expats, Featured Article, French, Languages

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