ECHTERNACH – The LinGoLux platform lets you play games to discover the languages of the country and the municipalities of the Mullerthal. In the meantime, it is being extended to other regions of the Grand Duchy.
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What is Beaufort’s historical industry? How do you write ‘poids’, ‘pois’ or ‘pouas’ chiches? What was the name of the train that ran between Echternach and Luxembourg City? All these questions are part of the LinGoLux platform, which allows you to discover the Mullerthal region and make progress in the country’s usual languages. ‘We realised that there was a need,’ says Aurélia Pattou, of the Mouvement pour l’égalité des chances (MEC) ASBL, which initiated the project. ‘The MEC had been offering language courses for a long time, and people were saying that they lacked the means to practise. They also said they needed to know more about the region where they live.
Vincent Lescaut/L’essentiel
This gave rise to the idea of creating a platform in three languages, Luxembourgish, French and German. With the support of the Ministry for the Family and the Natur- & Geopark Mëllerdall, the MEC launched the project, which took 18 months to see the light of day. We had one idea in mind: to create something fun and visually dynamic,’ explains Guillaume Pâquet, from EcomLux, who developed the design and visuals for LinGoLux. His partner at EcomLux, Jeremy Bosquet, developed ‘everything that can’t be seen’, including programming and functionality.
Emblems of the communes
Une fois sur la plateforme, on choisit de jouer sans s’inscrire, ou en créant un compte pour avoir un suivi de ses résultats. Ensuite, on clique sur la région Mullerthal puis on choisit une des communes de la région, de Junglinster à Reisdorf et de Nommern à Rosport-Mompach. Pour chaque commune, un quiz de sept questions mêlant connaissance de la ville et questions linguistiques. «En tout, on a 882 questions et 2 646 réponses, trois par question», reprend Aurélia Pattou. Pour les questions sur les communes, quatre thèmes: histoire, géographie, nature et culture. «On a demandé au parc de nous trouver des infos sur les communes et on a rédigé les questions». Pour les questions linguistiques, le MEC a travaillé avec des linguistes.
Since it went online on 27 October, around 1,000 people have logged on. By obtaining a score of 7 out of 7 on a town, they win the emblem. You can also have fun creating a certificate of achievement and see where you rank among all the registered players. For the more difficult questions, clues send players to websites where they can also find out more about the region. The game, which can be played on a computer, smartphone or tablet, should motivate learners at the MEC and elsewhere to discover their host region and improve their language skills. What’s more, the MEC will be organising ‘LinGoLux cafés’ where ‘we’ll be using the platform to run conversation tables’, says Aurélia Pattou. She hopes to extend the quizzes to other regions of the country, to continue developing the game.
You can play LinGoLux by clicking here.
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