Are you studying a foreign language currently?

[Bofferbrauer2]

CourageTCD said:

Bofferbrauer2 said:

I'm fluent in Luxembourgish, English, French and German (C2 level for each of them), plus some Tagalog, Russian, Schwiizerdütsch, Spanish and Yenish.

Currently I'm not studying a foreign language, but actually my mother tongue. You see, Luxembourgish didn't get fully standardized until shortly before I went to school, and as such there were no teachers yet to teach the written form of our language, so that's what I'm doing now.

Also on the checklist is deeper understanding on Spanish and Tagalog due to my mother moving to Spain and my wife being Filipina.

I had no idea Luxembourghish didn't get fully standardized until recently. Kinda nuts to think of a native speaker learning their own language because of that

A result of this very late standardisation is that despite the country being very small, we still have several regional dialects: Staater (Spoken in Luxembourg city and the standard on which the written form is based upon), Minetter (South of the country), Miseler (Along the Moselle river), Eeslécker (In the north of the country), Islécker (Similar to Eeslécker, in the northeast of the country), Lakerschmus (A variant of Yenish spoken in a suburb of Luxembourg city), Aareler (In the now Belgian city of Arlon and due to this almost extinct now), and I'm sure I forgot some more...

Also I never ever learned Luxembourgish at school apart a bit of Lakerschmus, only German, French and English, in that order.