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Dicks, Luxembourgish writer, poet, lawyer, Prime Minister. He is credited with the writing and producing of the first theater play in the Luxembourgish language, then known as the ‘Luxembourger German dialect’.
Some of the songs that Dicks composed for his plays, are still known and sung today. One example is the song called ‘Ech sinn e groussen Hexemeeschter’ from the operetta ‘D’Mumm Séis oder De Geescht’. Lyrics and English translation to be found here.
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Do you remember verb conjugation from your school days? Reading, covering up the solution, trying to remember the correct answer, writing and re-writing endless lists of verbs... for a lot of people, this was not much fun (even though, depending on your learning preferences, this might actually have worked for you). We will try a different method here so you can see for yourself if that works for you as a primary method of learning Luxembourgish verb conjugations, or maybe just as an occasional change in your language-learning routine.
This method relies on the assumption that language is better learned when we use our imagination and emotions and not simply repeat endless lists of words.
Read MoreThe phrase ‘wann ech gelift’ or ‘wann ech glift’ has even many Luxembourgers confused as to what that actually means. Sure, people use it every day to say ‘please’ but many don't know what it means word by word or where this strange phrase came from.
More about the definition and origin of this phrase.
Read MoreA quick look at the online dictionary dico.lu immediately shows how many meanings and expressions this simple word has (I counted 120). In his 2010 book De Sproochmates, the linguaphile Alain Atten alludes to the fact that not even scientific research currently fully understands the many usages of ‘ginn’ since we have not yet been able to track its development over time.
In this post, I would like to give you a short and useful introduction to some of the more important usages of ‘ginn’ that someone starting out to learn Luxembourgish might come across.
Learn how to count from 0 to 100 in Luxembourgish in three steps:
1. Understand the Luxembourgish counting system
2. Familiarize yourself with the spelling of the numbers
3. Check if you're pronouncing the numbers correctly using the audio files
Read MoreSometimes it can be frustrating translating from English to Luxembourgish as some words just don’t seem to have a direct equivalent but rather have to be described in half a sentence.
But we have to give some credit to Luxembourgish for being rich in imagination in it’s lengthy descriptions of otherwise simple facts of life.
Read MoreAs a foreigner in Luxembourg, you are realizing that you've hardly seen the language written down anywhere and you probably haven't even heard it spoken all that much. But if you want to maximize your time in Luxembourg, make friends and progress at work, Luxembourgish is a useful language to know.
Find out what learning Luxembourgish can do for you.
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