Sproochentest Holidays Topic: Model Answers

The examiner looks up and asks where you went last year. It is a friendly question, and it lands in the past tense, which is exactly where people stall. You start in the present, hear yourself, stop, and try again. Here is the calm version: holidays is one of the most predictable topics in the whole interview, and most of a good answer is everyday present tense with two past forms you can memorise. Pick one real trip, prepare a few short lines about it, and this stops being a surprise.

Vakanz (holidays) comes up in the first part of the speaking test, the interview. That part runs five minutes at level A2, and the whole speaking test is 10 minutes, two parts of five, interview first, then a picture. You will not always draw holidays, but it is common, and the words carry over into seasons, transport, and free time, so the work pays off across several topics. Every Luxembourgish line below is pulled word for word from our question bank and tutor playbook, so you can say it out loud and trust it.

What the examiner asks about holidays

The questions stay everyday. They want to know what you do on holiday, not catch you out with grammar. The follow-ups fit a few simple shapes, and you can prepare one line for each. Here are real questions from our bank, paired with a short answer you can reuse.

Notice a Kroatien takes a bare a before the country name, with no article. That small habit keeps you sounding right.

The present tense does most of the work

Start where it is safe. Most holiday questions are present tense, so most of your answer is plain everyday talk, which is exactly what A2 asks for. The verb reesen (to travel) and the word gär (gladly, for things you like doing) carry a full answer on their own:

Ech gi gär spadséieren an entdecken nei Plazen. Also, ech besiche gär Muséeën an ech iesse gär lokal Iessen.

(I like walking and discovering new places. So, I like visiting museums and eating local food.)

None of that is risky. It is plain talk about what you do on a trip.

The past tense: two forms

Now the part you were dreading. To tell a past trip you mostly need two patterns, and both sit in the tutor playbook.

The first is war (was), for how it felt. The second is the perfect tense, the one you hear most in spoken Luxembourgish: a helper verb plus a past participle. For where you went, the helper is sinn (to be); for what you did, it is hunn (to have). Here is the model answer for where you were last on holiday, with both at work:

Ech war leschte Summer a Kroatien. Et war ganz schéin, well d'Mier waarm war an d'Iessen exzellent.

(I was in Croatia last summer. It was very nice, because the sea was warm and the food was excellent.)

Look at the shape. One sentence sets the time and place; the next adds a feeling and one reason. That is a full A2 answer, and you swap in your own country and season. Want to say what you did rather than only where you were? The same playbook answer gives you the hunn and sinn forms together:

Leschte Summer si mir doheem bliwwen an hunn d'Groussregioun entdeckt. Mir si bei meng Famill a Frankräich gefuer a sinn a Lëtzebuerg an d'Éislek wandere gaangen.

(Last summer we stayed close to home and explored the Greater Region. We visited my family in France and went hiking in the Éislek in Luxembourg.)

Memorise two past forms and the holiday topic is yours: Ech war ... (I was) for how it felt, and Ech sinn ... gaangen / gefuer (I went) for where you went.

A few travel words worth having ready

You will not need many. These come from our playbook and cover most holiday answers.

Learn the handful you would actually use. An answer built from words you own beats one stuffed with words you might drop.

Do not aim for an interesting trip

One last thing, because it catches careful people. The examiner is not grading your holiday. They are grading your Luxembourgish. So if your real last trip was a complicated three-country rail adventure, do not reach for it. Reach for the version you have the words for. A simple trip you can describe without stopping beats a fascinating one that makes you freeze halfway. This is also how passing works: you need at least 50 percent in the speaking test, or a two-test average of at least 50 percent, and steady, clear sentences are what earn it.

If you want the rest of the topics laid out this way, our model answers and sample questions walk through each of our 17 interview topics, across about 350 practice questions, and how to answer like a beginner shows why the short answer is the safe answer.

Pick one real trip now and write four short lines about it: where you went, who with, one thing you did, whether you would go back. Say them out loud until they come without thinking.