If I asked you to tell me your biggest fear about having conversations in Luxembourgish, what would it be? If you’re like most Luxembourgish learners, you’d probably say something like getting started! I know how you feel. When I was first learning to speak English, I actually tried to avoid speaking as much … Read more
The Luxembourgish preposition an has several meanings in English. It can mean to, in, at. An is a two-way preposition. This means you must pay attention whether there is a movement or not in the sentence. If there is a MOVEMENT toward something or to a specific place, you usually use verbs like goen, fueren, … Read more
The English word when can be expressed in Luxembourgish by 3 different words: wéini, wann & wéi These three words are very confusing for most students learning Luxembourgish. So I will help you to understand how and when to use wéini, wann and wéi. Wéini Wéini is a question word related to time. It asks … Read more
Learn in this lesson to make sentences with the 4 separable verbs with the prefixe un: unhunn, ugoen, umaachen & unhuelen In this lesson you will learn in depth what a Luxembourgish separable verb is. I recommend to first read that lesson and then to come back to this lesson. We native speakers use a LOT of … Read more
Learn in this lesson to make sentences with the 4 separable verbs with the prefixe op: opstoen, ophalen, opmaachen & oppassen In this lesson you will learn in depth what a Luxembourgish separable verb is. I recommend to first read that lesson and then to come back to this lesson. We native speakers use a LOT … Read more
Sometimes we say or do really stupid things. That’s ok as long as we apologize. But how? Have this ever happened to you having said or done something you regret afterwords? And feeling bad about it? To be honest it happens to me quite often and I am always relieved when I take the courage to … Read more
This is a topic I want to talk about because in my Luxembourgish coaching sessions I frequently hear my students hesitating whether they should say si or hatt when talking about a woman or a girl. Now a question to you: Do you know when you should say in Luxembourgish si or hatt. Because both si … Read more
Are you, like many of my students, also struggling with the pervasive Luxembourgish rule of final n-deletion in certain contexts? You do not know when to say ech hunn or ech hu, or is it den Tom or de Tom? What is this rule all about? The n- Regel also known as the “Eifeler Regel” … Read more
Has this ever happened to you? Someone – like a colleague at work, or a parent at school, or someone at the sportsclub, or at a party – says: “Salut, wéi geet et?” And you answer: “Gutt, an .. euh…” …. and then? What should you say? Should you answer: an dir? an du? bei … Read more
When speaking Luxembourgish do you feel like making a lot of pauses and having a lot of hesitations? But your biggest wish is to speak naturally and fluently? Yes? Great because in this article I want to help you to get to this stage to be able to speak Luxembourgish with ease and share my useful tips … Read more