Dr. François Conrad
ABOUT ME
Born in Luxembourg, I grew up in a multilingual environment (with beside my first language Luxembourgish, i.a. German, French and English as L2). As such, I was from early on confronted with different areas of social and linguistic contact between various languages. During my linguistic studies in Bamberg/Germany, my main interest became focused on the sounds of the languages - the way they are produced and perceived and the way they interact in communication. Always curious to learn something new, I peer into other linguistic branches and areas as well.
The learning of i.a. Latin, Old Greek, Old Church Slavonic and different modern languages such as Spanish, Czech and Portuguese, and the teaching of some of them gave me a broad insight into grammatical forms, functions and linguistic systems. A knowledge I use both in research and teaching - and in scientific transfer to the general public and society.

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EDUCATION
RESEARCH INTERESTS
2015 - 2011
UNIVERSITÉ DU LUXEMBOURG
PhD studies in Luxembourgish Linguistics
(AFR-Stipendium of the Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg)
Phonetics & Phonology
Sociolinguistics/Sociophonetics
Language Variation and Change
Luxembourgish linguistics
Urban vernaculars
Language Contact
Multilingualism
2010 - 2007
OTTO-FRIEDRICH-UNIVERSITÄT BAMBERG
German philology (linguistics), Slavistics, Contemporary History
2007 - 2006
CHARLES UNIVERSITY PRAGUE
Erasmus-Program
2006 - 2004
OTTO-FRIEDRICH-UNIVERSITÄT BAMBERG
Archaeology, Contemporary History, Slavistics
2004 - 1990
Primary and secondary School in Luxembourg