A 60-day Sproochentest preparation plan, week by week

Sixty days, thirty minutes a day: a week-by-week plan for the Sproochentest — registration, the five speaking topics, the picture description and the listening part — built on the official INL format and free material with native audio.

Updated November 2, 2026 · 4 min read

The Sproochentest checks speaking at A2 and listening at B1 — nothing written, nothing to read (INL). That makes it a test you can plan for: the topics are known, the format is published, and both skills grow with daily practice rather than cramming. This plan assumes you already know a little Luxembourgish (a beginner course or a few weeks of daily words). Starting from zero? Add a month of the beginner steps first.

Your daily 30 minutes

Days 1–7: the starting line

• Do the INL mock exam once, without preparing — speaking and listening (INL). Note what was hard. This is your baseline.
• Read how the speaking part works and how the listening part works.
• Fix the basics you will use in every answer: personal pronouns and the present tense.
• Learn the opening and the closing of a conversation: hello, how are you, nice to meet you, thank you, goodbye.

Days 8–21: the five topics

Three days per topic: day one write ten true sentences, day two say them aloud without notes, day three answer questions on them from someone else. Model sentences for each topic, with native recordings, are in the speaking guide.

Days 22–35: past, opinions and pictures

• Add the past to every topic: what you did last weekend, how you came to Luxembourg — the past tense.
• Add reasons and opinions: *well…*, *ech mengen, datt…* — and check where the verb goes in word order.
• Add the modals: *ech wëll, ech muss, ech kann net* — irregular verbs and modals.
• Describe one picture a day for two minutes: what, where (*lénks, riets, hannen, an der Mëtt*), who is doing what, a guess, a link to your own life.
• Learn to say no and to ask: negation and questions.

Days 36–49: real conversations

• Once a week, a full mock speaking test with a person: five minutes of conversation on a topic they choose, five minutes on a picture. A native teacher does this best — on Edluxio you book 1-to-1 online lessons with independent teachers, among them native Luxembourgish speakers in Luxembourg; a trial lesson is refunded in full if the first one isn't right for you. A colleague, neighbour or language café works too.
• Record yourself and listen back: hesitations, missing verbs, the same three words again and again — fix one thing per week. Our pronunciation guide has the sounds to check.
• Listening: fifteen minutes a day now, including Luxembourgish radio; write down every number, time and place you hear.

Days 50–60: exam shape

• Do the INL mock exam again and compare with day 1.
• Rehearse your best two sentences per topic — the ones you can always fall back on.
• Prepare repair phrases for when you don't understand: *Pardon?*, and ask the examiner to repeat — see excuse me and please.
• Revise the n-rule by ear: *gi, hu, si, ka*.
• The day before: no new material. Check the location — INL Luxembourg-Glacis or Belval — and your convocation.

Keep learning

• The Sproochentest and naturalisation, explained (in French)
• What A2 and B1 mean in practice
• 100 everyday verbs
• 32 greetings and everyday phrases
• Shopping and eating out in Luxembourgish
• At the doctor and the pharmacy
• All Luxembourgish phrase pages
• All Luxembourgish verb tables