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Top Comments of this video!! :3
I use all the languages pretty much every day. One issue not mentioned in the video is that different domains are dominated by different languages: government (Luxembourgish), retail (French), newspapers (German), finance and academia (English), building sites (Portuguese).
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5:08 Well, fun fact, the German word "tschüss" also comes from French "adieu" through Dutch "adjuus".
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Luxembourgish is my mother tongue, the language I speak the most, especially with my family, but also with people I meet in daily life, if they speak it. Most local friends speak it and at the places I used to work it was the most common language. I don't watch much TV anymore, but if I do, I mostly watch programmes in Luxembourgish.
Although French is also very important in my daily life:
First, because most of the workers from Luxembourg's neighbouring areas are French, many of them work in retail. Unfortunately those of them who still speak their local Moselle Franconian dialect have become extremely rare.
Also most of the foreigners living in the country come from Romance language countries (mainly Portuguese, French, Italian and Cape Verdian people). It's usually the kids of immigrants who learn Luxembourgish, not the parents, the latter with whom I usually end up speaking French.
Second, because it's the lingua franca here when it comes to written language. As an example: Although laws are discussed in Luxembourgish in Parliament, they are recorded on paper in French. Most street signs are also in French.
(On a diplomatic level Luxembourg speaks French officially, like when engaging with the European Union or the United Nations.)
Third, my favourite Discord channel is a French one.
Then I use also quite a lot of standard German. I have German friends, some of them living in Germany some here in Luxembourg and I'm registered in several German speaking internet forums. And yes, there's also a good chunk of workers coming from neighbouring German areas. Since many of them still know their local dialects, they often understand me if I just speak Luxembourgish with them. It's usually Germans from further away who have difficulties to understand my mother tongue. Even though those still mastering a dialect have more ease understanding my idiom, especially those who speak a central German dialect.
But speaking of internet, in that area English is definitely the most important language to me. Add to this friends I have from parts of the world not belonging to the French and German language bubble.
Finally I also speak a bit of Italian. I learned it in school, unfortunately with time I forgot a lot of it. My girlfriend is an Italian immigrants' kid, but she speaks a southern Italian language, not the standard version, and she speaks perfect Luxembourgish anyway. (She even has a stronger Luxembourgish accent when speaking German, French and English than I.)
Thank you Paul, I was waiting for this video. 👍
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My wife and I went to Luxembourg once. She sent me out to get her a drink, so I went a short way from the hotel to a kiosk attended by one woman. Several men were ahead of me. To the first she spoke French. The second spoke German. The third spoke something else, I assume it was Dutch. My turn. I hadn’t said a word, but she looked me right in the eye and said, “What’ll you have, Hon?”
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Oh wow this is perfect timing as I'm on the train from Brussels to Luxembourg right now! Great video as always Paul. :)
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Wow, looks like Luxembourg is the real polyglot’s paradise! Kids growing up there are exposed to 5 languages and my understanding is that they are fluent in at least 4. What an amazing country!
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One small historical inaccuracy, while it's true that Luxembourg lost territory, after gaining independence from France, Luxembourg's biggest loss of territory came much later, in 1839, to Belgium. Belgium wasn't a country yet when Luxembourg gained independence from France.
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Hi there,
As a Luxemburger I can tell you this video is probably the most accurate you can find on Youtube and I am really thankful that someone took the time to analyze our language.
As for the question asked at the end of the video, I speak Luxembourgish every day but not at home as my wife only speaks English.
At work I'm lucky to have lots of Luxembourgish colleagues but French nearly comes second, if there wasn't English which grew so much in the past years.
Since Luxembourg opened up to the technology sector as well as startups, English became quite a normal language to speak between colleagues and in bars.
It also makes things easier for German and French people to communicate, but the French are sometimes to proud to speak anything else than English 😉
Villmools Merci fir de flotten Video.
Léif Gréiss aus Lëtzebuerg 😀
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I was born in Portugal, went to Luxembourg in 2008 and came back to Portugal in 2020. I'm so thankful that I could learn such a rare and unique language! 🇵🇹🇱🇺
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I'm from Luxembourg and I'd like to note a few things that people may not be aware of. Luxembourgish is not taught in school. Not the spelling, not the grammar, or anything really. It is something you pick up in kindergarten by playing with other kids, or that you know as mother language.
Every person that grew up in Luxembourg and attended Luxembourgish schools, speak French, German, English and Luxembourgish, more or less fluently. When two Luxembourgish people speak together, it is more than normal to use the other languages we know to communicate. Switching to french, german and english and back to Luxembourgish in the same sentence is very, very common.This is why we like to use words of other language if the word we think of comes faster in our mind in that specific language.
If you ever want to visit Luxembourg, don't worry a single bit about language barriers :D
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I’m Belgian. My native language is Dutch, but I also speak French, English and German. A couple of weeks ago I traveled to Luxembourg and I fell in love with Luxembourgish. It’s so weird to understand certain words and expressions, but never understand it to the full extent. The overlap of European languages, especially at the borders, will also never cease to amaze me.
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Shout out to Sheffield University for being among the first to teach Luxembourgish to undergraduates.
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I was in Luxemburg a few times and always got frustrated, speaking both German and French and not being able to follow the conversation. In the film I notice that some structures are even more like my native Dutch than either of the other ones. Good memories! Thanks!
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Having Moselle Franconian / Luxembourgish being considered a language in Luxembourg but considered a dialect as soon as you cross the border with Germany truly shows how politics aftect linguistics
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A few weeks ago I was watching a video with a famous journalist, Philip Crowther, reporting on the war in Ukraine (without knowing he was from Luxembourg) and I was telling to myself: "Dear me, I barely understand him, his German is quite bad!"
Then I realised someone had actually edited together his reporting in six different languages, Luxembourgish included. His German was quite flawless, just like his French, of course.
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Always a joy to hear Luxembourgish radio while driving through the area!
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This has to be the only language I find more difficult to understand when reading it than hearing. The written form looks outright bizarre to me as a German, but it sounds quite similar to some German dialects.
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As a German, might I add, that the German word "Tschüss" (the phrase came originally from Hamburg) also comes from "Adieu". Sailors from Hamburg picked the French word up and changed it to "Atschüss", which then later became "Tschüss" and found its way to the whole of Germany.
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I'm from Saarland, about 20 Minutes away from the border. I have some luxembourgish friends and when we meet I can speak my local dialect and they can speak luxembourgish. Even though we technically speak different languages we can understand each other with relative ease.
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