How comfortable are native Luxembourgish speakers speaking German?

[u/david_fire_vollie]

I understand they don't like French very much, have an accent when they speak French, and are taught in French at school when they're older.
But with German, it's very similar to Luxembourgish and it's the langage (Reddit won't let me spell it correctly) of instruction when they start school, at a time where the mind is more easily able to pick up foreign languages.
With these comibned, does this mean German is like a second mother tongue for the natives?

[u/samsom0053]

A bit late, yet I give an anecdotal additional:

I speak for myself, I am Luxembourgish and speak it daily, grew up closer to the German border, I have a more German and germanic language speaking family. I always had an awful relationship with french up to this day. I can speak french, but need to look up every other word while writing, and have a rather basic vocabulary on french. My German on the other hand is fluent, I know I pronounce it with an accent but it doesn't bother me.

I feel so uncomfortable speaking french that I try my best to not speak nor write it because, I know of my mistakes.

I know a lot of my friends from school are suffering similarly, some to the point where they decided to rather live and work in Germany or German speaking countries to evade french entirely.

[u/david_fire_vollie → u/samsom0053]

Why do you think there is so much dislike for French? Also with your accent, would it be similar to how Bavarians can have a strong accent, or Swiss, but they still sound like a native German speaker?
If you go across the border to Germany, can they tell straight away you're from Lux, or is Luxembourgish so similar to the German dialect, that they can't tell?

[u/dummeraltermann → u/david_fire_vollie]

The accent is typically very close to the accent of the bitburg, trier and saarland folks.

[u/NuKingLobster → u/dummeraltermann]

Yeah, but the people across the border, especially in Trier and Bitburg, usually don't speak Luxembourgish. There is a difference betweeen their dialects and Luxembourgish, even though there are many similarities in pronounciation.

[u/samsom0053 → u/david_fire_vollie]

From my experience it's a bit of a bubble. Everyone around me in my childhood and still to this days prefers to speak Luxembourgish or German, I never had that amount of conversations or correspondence in French.

Going right over the border you can hear a difference in the dialects from a native to not native speaker. Some sounds are just pronounced differently: like the 'ch' or the 'j' sounds or the intonation in general while being rather similar.