Welcome to this Conversation Workout!
In just 10 minutes, you’ll practise speaking and listening to help you sound more natural and confident when speaking Luxembourgish.
This intensive repeat-after-me lesson focuses on everyday greetings and introductions. You’ll practise common questions and expressions, improve your pronunciation, and work on word stress and intonation.
These are phrases you may already know, but this workout will help you use them more naturally in casual conversations. It’s also useful preparation for the oral part of the Sproochentest.
So get ready to listen, repeat, and practise out loud. Let’s get started!
When we meet with someone, whether it’s someone we already know or someone we’re just meeting for the first time, we almost always ask how they are, right?
So for our first set, we’ll practise some simple phrases that all mean the same thing.
How to Say “How Are You?” in Luxembourgish
- Salut Marc, wéi geet et? – Hi Marc, how are you?
Repeat after me – Good!
Wéi geet et? – How are you?
So notice how geet et just sounds like one big word there.
Salut Marc, wéi geet et? – Hi Marc, how is it going?
Okay, now let’s change the emphasis a little here:
- Salut Marc, wéi geet et dir? – Hi Marc, how is it going to you?
Adding the word ‘dir’ helps to sound really interested in the answer so if you know the person well but you haven’t really seen them for a while then using this intonation is great because it shows that you really care.
Let’s try another way to greet someone you know very well:
- Salut Marc, wéi ass et? – Hi Marc, how are you doing?
Literally this is how is it? and is commonly used in casual situations. Here something even more casual:
- An? Geet et? – And? Is it going?
In spoken Luxembourgish, it’s really common to just say “An? Geet et?” when you know the other person very well.
Everyday Luxembourgish Conversation: Asking About Plans
- An? Wat méchs du den Owend? – So, what are you doing tonight?
Do it again. Great stuff!
- An? Wat méchs du de Weekend? So what are you doing (then) on the weekend?
- An? Wat méchs du dann de Weekend? So what are you doing (then) on the weekend?
Now push the stress onto dann. Again, it is really common in spoken language to use dann in questions. It doesn’t change or add anything to the question but it put some emphasize.
Way 2: Asking “Do You Have Any Plans?” in Luxembourgish
A similar common way to ask someone Wat méchs du …? is
- Hues du haut eppes vir? – What are you up to today? Do you have any plans for today?
Alright, let’s give this question a little bit more focus.
- Hues de haut schonn eppes vir? – Do you already have some plans for today?
Great! Now if we can put the 2 questions you’ve just learned together to make our sentence more interesting:
- An? Wat méchs du dann sw Weekend? Schonn eppes vir? – So what are you up to for the weekend? Got any plans?
And then it is very common to move on with the conversation by talking about the family.
How to Ask About Family in Luxembourgish
Now there are different ways to ask about the family, but we’re going to focus on some of the most common and the most natural sounding ways of asking about the family in Luxembourgish.
- Wéi geet et denger Famill? – How’s your family?
Perfect! Now you can be more precise if you know the other person well:
- Wéi geet et denge Kanner? – How’re your children?
And more casual
- An? Wat soen se doheem? – And? What about your family?
Literally this is What do they say at home?
Well done for making it all the way through to the very, very end.
Let’s just get something clear here, I did not make this lesson for you to listen to it once and then walk away and forget about it. This is your training okay?
Enjoyed practising these everyday Luxembourgish conversations?
If you’re ready to go beyond individual phrases and build a solid foundation in Luxembourgish, my A1 Foundation course will help you develop the vocabulary, grammar and pronunciation you need to start speaking with more confidence.
With structured lessons, video explanations, audio dialogues and plenty of exercises, you can learn at your own pace and practise Luxembourgish step by step.
Conversation Workout #2: Making Plans
