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/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/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.