Luxembourgish Language Puns

Thanks for all the feedback and replies everybody!

Maltese and Irish are, so why Luxembourgish isn't? Curious.

Luxembourg always confuses me with what language to use inside the country. Let's say I would walk into a supermarket in Luxembourg City to buy some milk, but I don't know where the milk in the supermarket is. So then I would ask the staff of the supermarket where the milk is in the store. What language would be best to use? I speak Dutch (native), English, German, French and Japanese (a tiny bit). I can also do a few sentences luxembourgish, but I could always learn more for inside the supermarket or in general to use in Luxembourg.

Hi! I am planning on studying in Luxembourg at university starting 2022, but I am a bit afraid about the Luxembourgish language. Is this going to make my stay there harder, given that i don’t know it?

P.S. I speak French and English

I'm moving to Lux soon, and currently I'm learning French in order to feel more comfortable there.

I know that I should learn Luxembourgish too in order to get permanent residence permit later and socialize with locals, however I'm not sure if I'm going to stay in Lux for a long time and therefore if I want to invest time in learning it. So my question is how hard is to learn Luxembourgish if one speaks English and French? Will knowing French help? Or is it worth learning German instead of French now?

As far as I'm aware, every member state is allowed to submit a language spoken within its borders to the EU to become an official language, so why hasn't Luxembourg done that with its unique national language?

Et war esou ëm d' Päischten,

'T stung Alles an der Bléi,

An d' Villercher di songen

Hir Lidder spéit a fréi.

Du rifft de Léiw, de Kinnek,

All Déier op e Fest

Am Gréngewald zesummen,

An 't koumen all seng Best.

(This is the beginning of a famous satire fable called "De Renert")

Moien!

I read on Wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxembourg#Language) and some old reddit posts (e.g. http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/pveyv/til_that_although_luxembourgish_is_the_only/) that Luxembourgish is only used in early primary education and classes will be taught in German / French as kids grow up. How true is this statement? I understand that Luxembourgish is sometimes considered a German dialect, but it is also so different to German that the two languages are not mutually intelligible.

So my questions are, when you learnt German in primary school, what language did the teacher use in German classes? Is it (i) a mixture of Luxembourgish and German (so that you learn the rules to convert what you think in Luxembourgish into written Standard German), or (ii) Standard German only, without any Luxembourgish explanations (so that you're like learning a new language, but it shouldn't be too hard for you because there will be lots of cognates between Luxembourgish and German)? How about other classes, e.g. Maths or Music or Science?

Would you find it awkward if a fellow Luxembourgish spoke to you in Standard German? If you write text messages to another friend who is also from Luxembourg, do you write in Standard German, Luxembourgish, or a mixture of both?

Hello everyone,

I'm still looking for Luxembourgish speakers to take my questionnaire.

Thank you in advance for any help :)

https://goo.gl/forms/OU8JVqybFzkpGdHx2

Hello everyone,

I'm still looking for participants (Luxembourgish native speakers) and appreciate any help :)

Thank you

https://goo.gl/forms/518iVK0aZek1PQX43