Luxembourgish C2 · Mastery

Command register, nuance and the history of the language itself.

1. Varieties and history of the language — Dialekter a Sproochgeschicht
   Where Luxembourgish comes from, how it was standardised, its French and German layers, and the rule that governs the final n.
2. Law, money and work — Recht, Geld an Aarbecht
   The register of contracts, courts and the economy: indexation, the tripartite, the minimum wage and how laws enter into force.
3. Style, nuance and argument — Stil a Rhetorik
   The finest distinctions: near-synonyms, the little particles that colour a sentence, and the vocabulary of analysis.
4. Proverbs and sayings — Spréchwierder an Ausdréck
   Sayings are a way of speaking, not of reading word for word. Learn the words for proverb, quotation and figurative speech, and a set of sayings that the national dictionary records with their meaning.
5. The state and its institutions — Groussherzog, Chamber a Regierung
   How Luxembourg is governed: the Grand Duke, the Chamber of Deputies, the government, and the elections that put them there. The words are the ones the news and official texts use.
6. Humour, irony and register — Humor an Ironie
   Say what you mean, or say it with a wink. Words for jokes, irony and wordplay, for formal and informal speech, and for softening or sharpening a statement.