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Luxembourg urging residents to adopt new greeting

March 27, 2018

Mojourello: Luxembourg's new greeting

LUXEMBOURG-VILLE — Aware of the language uncertainty many residents face when greeting each other, the Grand Duchy’s Office of Applied Linguistic Integration is urging people to adopt a newly created word. “We spent nearly a year trying to solve this problem,” said Virginie Muller, the office’s chief language officer. “If we asked everyone in Luxembourg […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, French, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Languages, Luxembourgish, Politics and Government

Inspiring: this man has taken the same Luxembourgish course 21 times

March 13, 2018

Inspiring: this man has taken the same Luxembourgish course 21 times

MAMER — Saying that one day he’ll finally grasp the confusing grammar, thousands of weird compound verbs, and the maze of rules governing articles, a local man is enrolled in the same introductory Luxembourgish course that he has ceremoniously taken every year since moving here in 1997. Despite the course having gone through several name […]

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

He said ‘moien’ and now everyone thinks he’s local

March 1, 2018

He said moien, now everything thinks he's a local

Integrating has never been easier, as least for one expat who only moved here in January but has effortlessly blended into his surroundings thanks to one word. Seven weeks ago, web developer Sanjay Singh, 29, greeted a neighbor by saying “moien,” to which he got a “moien” in response. By mid-morning, word had got around […]

Filed Under: Expats, Featured Article, Languages, Luxembourgish

Embarrassing: this Bierger-Center employee only speaks six languages

February 5, 2018

Luxembourg civil servant only speaks five languages

LUXEMBOURG-VILLE — A native and resident of Kehlen who works as a civil servant in the capital has admitted to suffering from “deep feelings of inadequacy” and worries that he is “linguistically challenged” when in the presence of colleagues who speak more languages than him. Marco Pohlen, who works in the Bierger-Center, says that recently […]

Filed Under: Featured Article, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Languages, Politics and Government

Registering for INL course a Kafkaesque nightmare

February 2, 2018

Registering for INL course a Kafkaesque nightmare

Trying to sign up for a language course via the Institut National des Langues (INL) website is very similar to reading a story by Franz Kafka and then, when the story becomes too horrifying to bear and you close the book, you realize you cannot because you are now the ill-fated protagonist and there is […]

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

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