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L’anglais

La langue anglaise

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English

The English language

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Une langue maternelle

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A mother-tongue

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Une langue de travail

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A working language

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Un pays anglophone

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An English-speaking country

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Un anglophone

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A native English speaker

An Anglophone

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La progression de l’anglais

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The spread of English

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L’hégémonie de l’anglais

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The hegemony of English

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English taught as a foreign language

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Standard English

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Étendue sans pareille

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Unequalled extent

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La langue soignée/soutenue

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Formal language

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La langue familière

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Informal/Colloquial language

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L’argot

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Slang

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L’anglais parlé / écrit

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Spoken / written English

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Une expression

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A phrase

An expression

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Une formule

Un slogan

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A catch phrase

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Un mot à la mode

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A buzz Word

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Une expression figée / toute faite

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A set phrase

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Un cliché

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A cliché

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La langue de bois

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Cant

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Verbiage

Blabla

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Waffle

Twaddle

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Un néologisme

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A neologism

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Inventer un mot

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To coin a word

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Un pléonasme

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A pleonasm

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Épeler un mot

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To spell a word

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L'orthographe
Spelling
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Une figure de style
A figure of speech
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Ce n'est qu'une façon de parler
It is only a figure of speech
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Une litote
An understatement
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Un euphémisme
Euphemism
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How many people speak English today?
1.5 billion people (1/4 the world population)
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Vouloir dire | Signifier
To mean
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Que veut dire "gibberish"?
What does "gibberish" mean ?
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Le sens
Meaning
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Dénué de sens
Meaningless
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En d'autres termes
In other words
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C'est-à-dire
That is to say
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Surfant sur la vague
Riding the crest
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Domaine
Endeavor
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Comment dirais-je?
How can I put it?
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Comment dit-on "chic" en anglais?
What's the English for "chic"?
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Traduire un texte en arabe
To translate a text into Arabic
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Traduire un texte du japonais
To translate a text from Japanese
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Mal traduire quelque chose
To mistranslate something
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Qui suit
Monitoring
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Argot
Slang
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Engendrés
Spawned
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Authentique
Genuine
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Navigateur
Browser
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La barrière de la langue
The language barrier
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Parler bien l'espagnol
To speak Spanish well | To speak good Spanish
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Parler le portugais couramment
To speak Portuguese fluently | To speak fluent Portuguese
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Parler le cantonais sans accent
To speak Cantonese without an accent
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L'aisance de quelqu'un A s'exprimer en suédois
Somebody's fluency in Swedish
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Compétence en anglais
Proficiency in English
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Le TOEFL
TOEFL (test of English as a foreign language)
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Parler un mauvais hollandais
To speak poor Dutch
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Parler mal le chinois
To speak broken Chinese
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Parler le turc avec un fort accent
To speak heavily accented Turkish
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S'exprimer
To express oneself
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Se faire comprendre
To make oneself understood
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Être bon/mauvais/nul en langues
To be good/bad/hopeless at languages
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Rafraîchir son allemand
To brush up one's German
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Suivre un cours d'italien
To do an Italian course
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Un accent marqué | prononcé
A broad accent
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Anglais de cuisine Mauvais anglais Sabir
Pidgin English
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Un dialecte
A dialect
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Le charabia
Gibberish | Gobbledygook
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Jargon | Sabir
Jargon | lingo
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Charabia incompréhensible
Mumbo jumbo
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L'anglais simplifié parlé par les non anglophones
Globish | "Lingua Franca"
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Un test de compétence
A proficiency test

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