de Buedemleër is committed to the promotion of Luxembourgish.
23 june 2022
Did you know that in the Grand Duchy nearly 70% of all companies are family-owned?
According to a study conducted by PwC Luxembourg in 2007, family businesses like ours are characterized by a management model that is more stable, more cautious and more oriented towards the long term and the development of human and social relations than other companies. The study also states that they are more involved than other companies in the continuous training of their staff.
For us, lifelong learning takes several forms. One of them is that we ask our team members to take Luxembourgish courses, if they have not had the opportunity to learn the language before.
We use fun teaching materials that allow for quick learning
Why do we do this? The reason is very simple. A large majority of our clients are residents of the Grand Duchy and a good part of them speak Luxembourgish. That’s why we believe that allowing non-Luxembourgish members of our team to have a good conversational level in Luxembourgish is a mark of respect towards our clients and partners, but also an opportunity for them to discover our culture and to improve the relationship they have with the rest of our staff.
The courses take place in our premises
The teaching is given by one of our collaborators
However, we are also a multilingual company, since in addition to Luxembourgish and the other two official languages, Italian, Portuguese and English are among the languages in which we can serve our clients.
Our identity in the face of the spelling reform
Our Luxembourgish clients sometimes make a remark about our company name. Indeed, our company was created before the spelling reform of Luxembourgish in 1999, so we chose to keep the old spelling. This is why we still call ourselves “de Buedemleër” and not “de Buedemleeër”.
Confusions to be avoided
There have also been many remarks referring to “de Bommeleeër” (EN: bomb planter), which was in the news in the 80s. But don’t worry! As the satirical magazine Feierkrop already pointed out in 2016, our company “de Buedemleër”, that literally means “the floor layer”, has nothing to do with the “Bommeleeër” affair, except for the phonetic similarity.
