365 days to learn Luxembourgish

If you are interested in learning Luxembourgish, then you and I are not very different. It means we both came to Luxembourg from abroad, and we both thought it would be great to speak Luxembourgish to better integrate ourselves or just as a token of appreciation and respect to our new country.

As a linguist, I am very passionate about languages, which were my major in high school, as well as university. So far, I have been studying (in chronological order) Russian, French, English, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, German and last, but not least, Luxembourgish. My mother tongue being Romanian, a language with Latin roots, Luxembourgish was never very easy to learn, because of a very different grammar structure and word roots that I cannot easily connect.

Since you might have similar challenges to learn Luxembourgish, I would like to help you plan and structure your learning throughout 365 days and make daily small, but steady progress. You can start your learning all year long, but also on the 1st of January, if this was one of your New Year's resolutions. By the end of the 365 days, you will not be fluent in Luxembourgish, but will surely feel more confident to engage in a conversation with Luxembourgers.

You are privileged to be able to pre-order here and therefore be among the first people to discover the first edition of the 365 days to learn Luxembourgish, my personal method for you, which will be supplemented with audio files on the www.Languages.lu web site. Remember that the Luxembourgish language is still in development and there are often different versions for the same words. I made the choice to take www.lod.lu as the base for the orthography presented in this calendar. I also made the choice to show you during the first three months how the N rule is applied, by not simply deleting the n, but by highlighting it when it should disappear. You will better understand what I mean once you get to your third learning day. Starting with February, you will have at the end of each month a little game called Who am I? Wie sinn ech? These fun tests are a way to practice more your Luxembourgish and to show you the need for extra work and personal commitment. I encourage you to use regularly the lod.lu translation platform to check out the unknown vocabulary. You may also want to get the game Wie sinn ech? (which has an English version on the back of each card game).

Even though I am Luxembourgish, the Luxembourgish language is not my mother tongue. To ensure the success of this project, I teamed up with 2 Luxembourgish colleagues, Jean Weiss and Massimo Sartini, who were fantastic to proofread all the texts. I couldn’t have done it without them! Villmools merci!

I am very excited to know more about how you will use this calendar and what specific challenges you will have. Therefore, I warmly encourage you to write me about your learning experience. Thanks to your feedback, I will be able to add whatever extra elements might be needed. My e-mail address is the following [email protected].

I also encourage you to join the 365 days to learn Luxembourgish groups on Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the monthly Teach yourself Luxembourgish events put together by Languages.lu in order to allow people studying Luxembourgish to meet and practice together. Check out the web site www.languages.lu for regular updates. I look forward to hearing from you soon and I sincerely hope that you will be one of the happy ambassadors of my projects to promote the Luxembourgish language!

https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/fr/projects/365-jours-pour-apprendre-le-luxembourgeois

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