You need to lead a meeting in Lëtzebuergesch. Many of my clients come to me asking for help on how to lead a meeting in Luxembourgish so that they don’t feel nervous or waste their time in meetings searching for their words.
In today’s lesson I’ll share my advice as a neuro language coach and you’ll learn the phrases that you need to lead a meeting in Luxembourgish with confidence.
The great news about leading a meeting is that you can prepare because every meeting has 6 key moments that you need to be ready for and once you know what you need to say at each of these steps you’ll feel much more confident and you’ll sound more natural too.
And my clients have found that by learning a few key phrases really well, they feel a lot more confident in a short period of time.
So I’m gonna give you an example of how someone might lead a meeting through those 6 key steps. And I’ll give you examples of how we would do each step in Luxembourgish so that you can start each partof your meeting feeling confident.
So in any business situation you’ll need to know
How to start or to open a meeting: Wéi fänkt een eng Reunioun un?
Dir kënnt zum Beispill soen:
- Moien alleguer oder Gudde Moien alleguer.
- Ech gesinn, jiddereen ass hei. I see everyone’s here.
- Ech mengen, jiddereen ass hei, da loosst eis ufänken. I think everyone’s here, then let’s get started.
Then you’ll need to share
The purpose of the meeting: den Zil, de But vun der Reunioun
Da kanns du soen:
- De But vun der Reunioun ass, …. The goal of the meeting is …
De But vun der Reunioun ass, eisen neien Service an eis haapt Ziler ze presentéieren – the goal of the meeting is to introduce our department and our main goals
- An dëser Reunioun geet et ëm … This meeting is all about …
Beispill:
An dëser Reunioun geet et ëm de Budget. Wat fir Moossnamen mussen mir fir d’Joer 2025 huelen.
Once you’ve stated the goal of the meeting, you want to:
Tell your team what’s going to be discussed first, next, after so that they know what to expect
Here I recommend to start with
Fir d’éischt – first
Beispill: Fir d’éischt hunn ech eng Presentatioun iwwer … First I’ll have a presentation about …
Then you continue with dann – then
dann diskutéiere mir déi genee Tâchen fir all Service – then we will discuss the exact tasks for each department an ….
Continue here with
dono – afterwards :
an dono kënnt dir är Froen stellen. And afterwards you can ask questions.
To conclude you can start with the expression:
Zum Schluss – finally
Zum Schluss diskutéiere mir iwwer d’Projeten fir d’Semester 3.
If you’re leading a meeting and you want to keep the meeting going so that people pay attention to you you need to use
Transitions that you can use to move from one topic to the next.
- Ech fänke mam 1. Deel vun der Dagesuerdnung un – I start with the 1. part of the agenda
- Hutt dir Froen dozou? Wann net da fuere mer mat der Reunioun weider. Do you have any questions about the presentation? If not we would go on.
- Wa keen eng Fro huet, da kommen ech zum nächste Punkt. If there are no more questions, Then I get to the next point.
Sum up the content of a meeting naturally and confidently in Luxembourgish you want to summarize or to recap what you discussed.
Here are some sentences you can say
- Ech faassen elo déi wichtegst Punkten zesummen – I’ll now summarize the most important aspects
- Loosst mech kuerz zesummefaassen – let me briefly summarise
- Zum Schluss kënne mir zeréckbehalen, datt … – Finally, We can sum up, that …
And of course any meeting has an end:
Close the meeting and thank everyone for coming and let them know when the next meeting is.
For that you can simply say:
Villmools merci fir är Presence a Opmierksamkeet – Thank you very much for your presence and attention.
Déi nächst Reunioun ass den …. um 14h00. The next meeting is on … at 2.00pm
I know that leading a meeting can really be scary in Lux but you would be amazed at how much better you can feel if you are prepared for the situation. You have more confidence and by doing that you’ll actually have an easier time improvising , responding to surprise questions.
And remember if you don’t use it you lose it. So here is what you can use what you’ve learnt today:
Write down the opening of your meeting , say hello to everyone and that you’re ready to start and write down the goal of your meeting. This is crucial and prepare for that. And practice this aloud until you feel comfortable and confident.
And if you would like to continue learning business vocabulary with me right now and you would like to expand your business vocabulary to be able to talk in meetings or with your colleagues, and, learn to talk on the phone, or give presentations in Luxembourgish then
