French literacy in Luxembourg: a threat to German? by Michael Juchmes — Luxembourg Times

French literacy in Luxembourg: a threat to German?

French literacy in Luxembourg is causing debate. Is the country’s multilingualism at risk?

How German and Luxembourgish are holding their own.

#Luxembourg #Language #Multilingualism #German #Luxembourgish #French

Two new apps to make Luxembourgish ‘easy and accessible’ for learners Translate what you write or speak into Luxembourgish text and audio, or learn for the Sproochentest

Two new apps to make #Luxembourgish ‘easy and accessible’ for learners
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Luxemburg | Früherer CSV-Politiker und Hofmarschall Lucien Weiler ist tot Lucien Weiler, ehemaliger CSV-Politiker und Hofmarschall, verstarb im Alter von 74 Jahren. Er prägte Luxemburger Politik als Abgeordneter und Präsident der Abgeordnetenkammer.

#RIP #LUXEMBOURG 1) #Lucien #Weiler #aged 74, #Luxembourgish #politician #deputy 1984-2013, #dies #announced #February 1, 2026 www.tageblatt.lu/Nachrichten/...

What’s the next language I should try learning? 😅

#luxembourg #letzebuerg #luxembourgish #letzebuergesch #india

Going through some old photos I came across these two.

#beer #bofferding #luxembourg #luxembourgcity #luxembourgville #luxembourg🇱🇺 #luxembourgcity🇱🇺 #villedeluxembourg #bloggers_lu #luxembourglife #luxlife #luxemburgo #luxembourgish #letzebuerg #lëtzebuerg

On #EuropeanDayOfLanguages, 🇱🇺 celebrates Luxembourgish Language Day - promoting #Luxembourgish as a vibrant, living language and encouraging its daily use.

Find out more about multilingualism and languages in Luxembourg 👉https://gd.lu/bVTQpw

@gouv.lu

10 activities to celebrate the first Luxembourgish Language Day For the first time this year, 26 September will become Luxembourgish Language Day with events from a quiz, exhibition, comedy night and live music

10 activities to celebrate the first #Luxembourgish #Language Day
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One of the most interesting #translation projects I've done of late, a #Luxembourgish investigative journalism podcast into the biggest financial #fraud to ever hit the country's social sector

Check it out here: 100komma7.lu/show/The-Car...

#xl8 #podcast #caritas #luxembourg #charity

#Multilingual #Speech2Speech #Agents are here!

Supporting the latest #OpenAI Models and more. Also works for #Luxembourgish

⚙️besser-agentic-framework.readthedocs.io/latest/release_notes/v4....

#opensource #python #text2speech #speech2text #languagedetection #nlp #lowcode #llm #rag

Testing Low-Resource Language Support in LLMs Using Language Proficiency Exams: the Case of Luxembourgish Large Language Models (LLMs) have become an increasingly important tool in research and society at large. While LLMs are regularly used all over the world by experts and lay-people alike, they are pre...

#Testing #LowResource #Language Support in #LLMs Using Language Proficiency Exams: the Case of #Luxembourgish arxiv.org/abs/2504.01667

🌟[FLASHBACK YESTERDAY — 14.03] — 2 #Luxembourgish screenings: “Terre Rouge: topographie du poète” by Fränz Hausemer with @cna_luxembourg , and "A place called home" + The masterclass « Matin Brun » at @CasinoLuxemburg and the VCA'S @rocklabmusic
The 📸
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1/2 #Bajan #Bambara #BelizeanCreole #Bemba #Bislama #Bosnian #Burmese #Chichewa #Croatian #Dyula #Dzongkha #Ewe #Fijian #Fongbe #Fula #Hassanya #Khmer #Kpelle #Krio #Kriolu #Lingala #Luxembourgish #Malagasy #Malagasy

From Ärenzen to Téinten: the confusing world of Luxembourg place names The debate about which language should be given prominence in dual language place names rumbles on, almost 50 years after the signs were introduced

From Ärenzen to Téinten: the confusing world of Luxembourg place names
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#lëtzebuergesch #luxembourgish #language #langsky

But I also emphasized that, for this to really happen, we need #LLMs that master all languages of our #EU #citizens. Which is not the case now.

Fixing this (especially regarding #Luxembourgish in our case), is one of the goals of the LLMs4EU #altedic project, starting beginning of next year. 🤞🤞🤞

Languages of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg: Months Discover the months of the year in the languages of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, including Dutch, French, German and Luxembourgish. A clear comparison for language enthusiasts and learners...

🌟Are you interested in language comparisons?
👉Check out our page about months in French, Dutch, German and Luxembourgish!
🔗Click on the link!
💡Don't forget to like and repost!

#languagesandyou #langsky #luxembourgish #dutch #french #german #polyglotsky #languages #studysky #learnlanguages

"10,000" in Germanic languages

🇿🇦 tienduisend
🇩🇰 ti tusind
🇫🇴 tíggju túsund
🇮🇸 tíu þúsund
🇳🇱 tienduizend
🇩🇪 zehntausend
🇱🇺 zéngdausend
🇳🇴 titusen
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ten thoosand
🇸🇪 tio tusen
✡️ צען טויזנט (tzen toyznt)

#Afrikaans #Danish #Faroese #Icelandic #Dutch #German #Luxembourgish #Norwegian #Scots #Swedish #Yiddish

Languages of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg: Numbers Discover numbers in the languages of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, including Dutch, French, German and Luxembourgish. A clear comparison for language enthusiasts and learners.

🌟Are you interested in language comparisons?
👉Check out our page about numbers in French, Dutch, German and Luxembourgish!
🔗Click on the link!
💡Don't forget to like and repost!
#languagesandyou #langsky #luxembourgish #dutch
#french #german #polyglotsky #languages #studysky #learnlanguages

🌟Did you know that Luxembourg 🇱🇺 has 3 official languages: Luxembourgish, French and German?
👉Luxembourgish became an official language of Luxembourg in 1984.
❓Do you think multilingualism is important?
#luxembourg #luxembourgish #french #germanlanguage #languages #multilingualism #languagesandyou

"Frog" in Germanic languages

🇿🇦 padda
🇩🇰 frø (c)
🇫🇴 froskur (m)
🇮🇸 froskur (m)
🇳🇱 kikker (m)
🇩🇪 Frosch (m)
🇱🇺 Fräsch (m)
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 puddock
🇸🇪 groda (c)

#langsky #Afrikaans #Danish #Faroese #Icelandic #Dutch #German #Luxembourgish #Scots #Swedish

The future of the Luxembourgish language: “It’s the speakers who make the language”, says ZLS director Alexandre Ecker unpacks the future of the Luxembourgish language, new speech recognition programmes, and the preservation of ancient expressions with RTL.

The future of the #Luxembourgish #language:
“It’s the speakers who make the language”, says ZLS director
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#speechrecognition