And now what?: All those languages!

Let me explain you something about the Luxembourgish language situation. In theory, they speak three languages here; Luxembourgish, French and German. Often they seem to ditch the Luxembourgish and print information bilingual in French and German. But because most people in this country (indeed, more than half!) are foreigners, they can't escape English. So quite often you will find this added as a third language. Because the biggest part of the immigrants are Portuguese, the information is sometimes printed in Portuguese as well (four languages surely is not enough).
In the supermarket it even gets crazier. Because there they have Dutch language floating around. On many products the language on top of the list is Dutch. And the self check out tills even have a Dutch option. Always nice to read some of my good old language.

But, you may wonder, how do you know what language someone is going to speak to you? well, that is a big mystery for me I can say. To be honest, I think that the people from here are just guessing as well. In buses the writing always randomly either German or French. Although there is this one supermarket that makes it a bit easier for us. Every till has a list of flags corresponding with the languages that the cashier speaks. So you can choose in what language you want to check out. I hope to see a little Dutch flag soon so I can make sure I won't forget my own language. Meanwhile I am practicing my German and french as much as I can. I will start my German course in October and am still looking for a course in beginners French. The other day I ordered my drink and asked for directions in French. I was super proud of myself I must say.

As far as my Luxembourg life goes, I have done all of the registration things I can do at the moment and am waiting to receive a zillion letters and cards in the mail. I have been teaching my first zumba class last week and have been to my first student party this weekend. They do do some good parties here!

XOXO