` :::Well yes, I am a native ``Letzeburger``. There is, however, a very very large minority of foreigners living in Luxembourg, thankfully so, that do not speak Luxemburgish at all. The problem most of us DO have with being assembled to German (again) lies very much deeper, though.  :::As for being trilingual, it has its drawbacks, too. Most of the Luxembourgers are not fluent in German (as they do a literal translation from their native language most of the time) and their French is not really perfect, either. As for being a French speaking country, we belong officially to the ``pays francophones`` and you won't be able to manage for long in Luxembourg without French (try to buy something in Luxemburgish or German and you know what I mean) :::Sorry for being anonymous in my first posting. It was largely an emotional reaction more than any logical reasoning. I made my studies at a university in Austria, so I might be more friendly toward German as a language than most of the ``Letzeburgers``. :::Blue Mars, why do you say: ``Moreover, in contrast to Dutch, Luxembourgish cannot be considered a fully independent language.`` Now this is something someone has to explain. I am not sure about the ``mutual intelligibility`` between German and Luxemburgish either. I guess you may be right for the regions located geographically near our country, but other Germans won't understand a word of what we are talking about. Exactly the same is true for Dutch ). Luxembourgish is a very independant language with it's own literature, folk songs, poetry and everything else you may expect in a language. `