I’m Portuguese, and for a long time I’ve heard that Luxembourg has so many Portuguese people that it would be almost impossible to not see something Portuguese on a daily basis. I’ve never been to Luxembourg (although I’m planning to visit in the summer), so I was wondering, is this true? Or is it just an exaggeration?
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Portuguese on a daily basis is indeed hard to avoid. Off the top of my head: portuguese people, portuguese restaurants/bars, portuguese food in supermarkets, portuguese language …
So, that doesn’t seem exaggerated too much to me.
Eu sou português e vivo no Luxemburgo e posso dizer que no dia a dia consigo só falar português em todo o lado
Any truth? Não, toda a truth.
Yes, portuguese guy here
Yup, Brazilian here and can confirm… I frequently was surprised by a Portguese-speaking attendants in stores, restaurants, banks, real state salespeople and random people on the street.
Portuguese may be added to the official languages in Luxembourg pretty soon! 😀
I hear at least 1 “caralho” daily! And that makes my day
I deliver mail in the “portuguese part” of luxembourg and I can tell you right now that it is true. An easy 75% of my clients are portuguese.
The Giesen run the country for us and make sure we don’t go extinct. You have to consider there’s 650.000 total population and mixity compares less to a salad bowl than to a blender in the soup. That doesn’t mean that Lux. identity disappeared though, rather the opposite. Protip: you’ll find friends easier if you’re a Benfica fan.
Portuguese here. 16% of the population is portuguese. You have coffees, restaurants, shops everything here. My father never had to learn any other language because everywhere you can find one portuguese guy. So yes. You hear portuguese everywhere.
Btw once there was a portuguese group of schoolkids in the train. They were asking someone in english where to go. They had like 5 ppl directly answering in portuguese. Was fun to watch.
IMO the portuguese immigration wave was the last big wave of immigrants that really blended in the luxemburgish culture. Most of them/their children learned luxemburgish, they are generally hard working people and really helped this country thrive.
I have a German coworker who complains he can’t speak German to most people in Luxembourg even though it’s one of the official languages. I on the other hand can solve pretty much anything I would need on my daily life speaking Portuguese.
Also, every major political party spreads their flyers and propaganda in a combination of luxembourgish, french, Portuguese and English.
Sim, verdade.
100% correto
The South is full of Portuguese. All my neighbors are Portuguese.
Considering close to a fifth of the population is Portuguese (to which you have to add those who have dual nationality), yes.
When I still lived here I ate a little portugese bread (literally what it is called) for breakfast, then went to school with 2 portugese people in my class, walked past a portugese restaurant after school a lot, and heard a lot of portugese spoken. So yeah, definitely true! It‘s pretty cool if u ask me
Nope, not an exaggeration as other commentators said.
I just have one thing to add: they differ A LOT from portuguese people in Portugal (in terms of behavior and mentality). And plot twist: they also don’t quite resemble the Luxembourgers, so it can’t be explained by high rate of integration imho. They are kind of… Unique. Although it’s just what I observed, I might have my bias.
Nope, not an exaggeration as other commentators said.
I just have one thing to add: they differ A LOT from portuguese people in Portugal (in terms of behavior and mentality). And plot twist: they also don’t quite resemble the Luxembourgers, so it can’t be explained by high rate of integration imho. They are kind of… Unique. Although it’s just what I observed, I might have my bias.
It is impossible to not hear fodes everywhere. 😂
Yes. Cafés are almost all portuguese with Delta or Bicafé as the Coffee brand.
There is pastel de nata everywhere even in german or french style bakeries.
All supermarkets have portuguese products like Compal, Milanesa, Nobre, Bom Petisco… Even the small ones, there is even a chain of portuguese supermakets called Primavera.
You can buy oranges from Portugal. Super Bock is everywhere, Sagres is also found.
There is a lot of portuguese restaurants everywhere and you can easily eat francesinha, bifanas, bitoque, bacalhau, cozido, leitão assado and caldo verde. You can buy Enchidos portugueses in supermarkets.
There is even a food truck that goes around some cities selling Bifanas.
Some of the documentation from authorities cames in french, german, luxembourgish and portuguese or french, german, english and portuguese.
It is impossible to use public transports without hearing portuguese or seeing a FCP or SLB shirt. There is a Casa do Porto, Casa do Benfica e Casa do Braga. There is a local club with Benfica name, a local clube with Porto name and a local clube with Braga name.
Even in the next Sunday elections you can find a lot of portuguese names in the lists as candidates to be elected. In a list of 10 you can see 1 to 4 portuguese names and I imagine in Esch will be even higher.
Yeah it’s true, eventough the peak had been reached in 2017, since then we see a steady decline of the portuguese population.
Mostly because of housing.
The french are expected to overtake the portuguese as the largest Minority in Luxembourg in the near future.
*Oh help us god*
There is a restaurant close to where I live called Cardoso.
Next to it is an election poster with a Pedro da Silva.
A few meters further you can buy bifana. And a few meters from that is a shop selling leitao.
Any more questions?