r/BeAmazed • u/Separate_Finance_183 • 17h ago

Miscellaneous / Others Dog-sitter in Luxembourg tests which language the dog understands

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u/NNiekk 15h ago

Strange that Dutch wasn’t spoken in the vid

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u/Mynonas 15h ago

If this is a legit question, the flag that looks a lot like the Dutch flag is in fact in this case the Luxembourg flag, which has a lighter blue at the bottom. They don't speak Dutch, they speak Lëtzebuergesch (Luxembourgs)

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u/NNiekk 15h ago

I know that was Luxembourgs. It’s why I said I was surprised that it wasn’t also mentioned like all the other languages of the neighbouring countries. Since The Netherlands is also one of those neighbouring countries and languages

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u/Nozinger 15h ago

Because dutch is not an official language of luxembourg. The others are. Except for english but that one was probably included because the person recording knew engliish anyways.

So realistically those are the 4 languages you'd probably learn in luxembourg.

Edit: also the netherlands aren't actually a naeigbouring country of luxembourg.

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u/adoreroda 3h ago

And Luxembourg also has a huge Portuguese community too, so realistically Portuguese is in the mix for spoken languages in Luxembourg as well. Dutch isn't, though

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u/noodlz91a 15h ago

since when does NL share border with Lux?

there's belgium in the west / north / northwest, there's france in the south and germany east.

the video didn't mention dutch because that is so far off.

oh and, please share some of that weed you smoke.

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u/NNiekk 15h ago edited 15h ago

I mean… BeNeLux is a thing for a reason…

Edit: guess I’m just stupid, and grew up believing that the Netherlands Germany Belgium border was benelux…

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u/LaoBa 11h ago

We share a parliament.

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u/Buntschatten 11h ago

Luxemburg doesn't border the Flemish region of Belgium

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u/Asyx 10h ago

Not sure where you got the idea from that Dutch makes sense here.

Luxembourg is famously quadrolingual (is that even a word?). Luxembourgian, German, French and English through education.

It used to be the same in the Netherlands where they all were somewhat educated in French, German and English. That stopped when English kinda won as the default international language.

They don't speak those languages because they border those countries. They speak those languages because those are the languages that make sense to know because 100 million people to the west of you speak one of them and 100 million people to the east of you speak another and half the population of this planet speaks the third.

The Netherlands has, like, 20 million people? That all speak at least English?

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u/hutchx86 2h ago

Small correction: Luxembourgish not Luxembourgian. 😁

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u/Asyx 3m ago

But that triggers the spell checker 😬

I'd say Luxemburgisch in German though.