English Flashcards

(86 cards)

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English, the English language

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l’anglais, la langue anglaise

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a mother tongue

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une langue maternelle

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a working language

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une langue de travail

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an English-speaking country

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un pays anglophone

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a native English speaker, an Anglophone

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un anglophone

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the spread of English

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la progression de l’anglais

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the hegemony of English

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l’hégémonie de l’anglais

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register

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le registre, le niveau de langue

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formal language

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la langue soignée, soutenue

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informal, colloquial language

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la langue familière

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academic English

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l’anglais académique

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slang

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l’argot

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spoken / written English

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l’anglais parlé / écrit

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a phrase, an expression

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une expression

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to phrase

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exprimer, reformuler

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to rephrase, to reformulate

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reformuler

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a catch phrase

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une formule, un slogan

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a set phrase

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une expression figée, toute faite

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a buzz word

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un mot à la mode

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a saying

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un cilché

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a neologism

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un néologisme

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to coin a word

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inventer un mot

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a pleonasm

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un pléonasme

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a quotation, a quote

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une citation

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tu quote somebody
citer quelqu'un
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to spell a word
épeler un mot
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spelling
l'orthographe
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a metaphor
une métaphore
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a figure of speech
une figure de style
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an understatement
une litote
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a euphemism
un euphémisme
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to mean
vouloir dire, signifier
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meaning
le sens
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meaningless
dénué de sens
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in other words
en d'autres termes
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to put it differently
pour le dire autrement
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that is to say
c'est-à-dire
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to translate a text into Arabic
traduire un texte en arabe
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to translate a text from Japanese
traduire un texte du japonais
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to mistranslate something
mal traduire quelque chose
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to speak Spanish well, to speak good Spanish
parler bien l'espagnol
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somebody's influency in Swedish
l'aisance de quelqu'un à s'exprimer en suédois
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proficiency in English
compétence en anglais
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a proficiency test
un test de compétence
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TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)
le TOEFL
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TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)
le TOEIC
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to speak poor Dutch
parler un mauvais hollandais
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to speak broken Chinese
parler mal le chinois
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to speak heavily accented Turkish
parler le turc avec un fort accent
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to express oneself
s'exprimer
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to make oneself understood
se faire comprendre
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the language barrier
la barrière de la langue
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to make a mistake
faire une faute
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grammatical correctness
la correction grammaticale
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to be good / bad / hopeless at languages
être bon / mauvais / nul en langues
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to brush up one's German
rafraîchir son allemand
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to do an Italian course
suivre un cours d'italien
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pronunciation
la prononciation
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to pronounce
prononcer
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RP, Received Pronunciation
prononciation standard
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a diphthong
une diphtongue
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unpronounceable
imprononçable
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to mispronounce a word
mal prononcer un mot
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word stress / sentence stress
l'accent de mot / de phrase
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to have a broad accent
avoir un accent marqué, prononcé
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punctuation
la ponctuation
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a punctuation mark
un signe de ponctuation
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a full stop (GB), a period (US)
un point
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a comma
une virgule
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a colon
deux-points
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a semi-colon
un point-virgule
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a question mark
un point d'interrogation
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an exclamation mark (GB), exclamation point (US)
un point d'exclamation
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a dash
un tiret
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a hyphen
un trait d'union
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pidgin
anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais, sabir
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a dialect
un dialecte
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cant
la langue de bois
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waffle, twaddle
verbiage, blabla
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gibberish, gobbledygook
le charabia
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jargon, lingo
jargon, sabir
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mumbo jumbo
charabia incompréhensible
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globish
l'anglais approximatif parlé par les non-anglophones
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computerese
le jargon des informaticiens
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journalese
le jargon des journalistes
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management-speak, managementese
le jargon des écoles de commerce