"Asti stressed that high-quality multilingualism is essential for social cohesion and living together in Luxembourg. 'An imbalance in our linguistic ecosystem, whether in terms of depreciation, dislike, or opposition of languages, jeopardises our ability to live, work, and make decisions together,' the association said.

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  1. The part about the uni “going German” is interesting. Is that across the institution, or more about specific faculties or disciplines?

  2. How is it a loss of multilingualism if one predominant language is simply replaced by another. 

  4. The preferred language for research publication is English. Most foreign university students at Uni.lu require courses to be held in English because it’s the language they already know. So, it makes total sense for the university to pivot towards English. The dominance of German is mostly due to faculty being German speaking, but I believe that English will become more and more the main language on campus and in lectures.

  5. >To counter the decline, Asti made several recommendations in its report. Political bodies should “clearly demonstrate their support for multilingualism and the French language in all areas of public life, with particular emphasis on national education.” Teachers, parents, and policymakers are urged to back all efforts to promote French-language education.

    Isn’t french already omnipresent in daily life?

    Ever road sign is in french, administrations and websites default to french, what more is there to do?

    In secondary education, Maths is in French, secondary subjects are all in french.

    What more is there to do?

    You simply can’t force being francophone on a non-francophone student.

    I might have misunderstood so if you read this feel free to correct me.

  8. The Association de soutien aux travailleurs immigrés. (Asti) Seems more concerned about French immigrants than all other immigrants.

  10. Actually French is way more over represented than Luxembourgish or German.

  11. That French is dominant I agree, but my impression is more that English is gaining because of the broadening of the immigration to non Latin countries…not uncommon to walk into a shop/ bar where you’ll be greeted in English

  15. Vu la main d’œuvre française utilisée, pas sûr que ce soit un bon point que les luxembourgeois délaissent le français.

  16. I read the “report”. It is truly…sth else.

  17. Maybe if y’all would learn luxembourgish and really integrate into luxembourgish society and not just into finance and the job market you would understand. Mir wëlle bleiwe wat mir sinn…

  18. I am not one of those people who just has an anti-French knee jerk reaction whenever the language discussion is brought up. I think having French as the dominant language in Luxembourg has been very advantageous for us as a country in terms of soft power and diplomatic influence. Having said that, I can’t understand for the life of me what ASTI is on about.

    “Imbalance in our linguistic ecosystem” what? There is already a massive imbalance towards French, it is heavily favoured. They seem wholly out of touch with reality.

  22. LMFAOO, weärt dei sprooch nach emer offwiele fir de premiers examen. Ech verstinn einfach net wisou ECH besser Franseich schreiwe kenne muss wei een aus Frankreich. Ja okay wann ech hei schaffen am Future, muss ech bestemmt ee puer Berichter odr sou schreiwen mais ech garanteieren jidderengem hei dofir brauch ech den subjonctif net. Ech hätt leiwer sie klauen dem Franseich ee puer Stonnen an brengen ons besser lëtzebuergesch rechtschreiwung bei

  23. What if the French press wrote in France: Luxembourgish language threatened by French 🤣🤣

  24. I say, it’s time for the french to learn a second language.

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