English the global language ? Flashcards

(60 cards)

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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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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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une 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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21
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épeler un mot

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to spell a word

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l’ orthographe

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spelling

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une figure de style

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a figure of speech

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ce n’ est qu’une façon de parler

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it is only a figure of speech

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une litote
an understatement
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un euphémisme
a euphemism
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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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comment dirais-je
how can i put it ?
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comment dit on " chic" en anglais ?
what's is 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 japonese
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mal traduire quelquechose
to mistranslate something
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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 portuguais 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 à s' exprimer en suédois
somebody's fluency in swedish
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compétence en anglais
proficiency in English
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un test de compétence
a proficiency test
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le 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 chinois
to speak broken chinese
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parler le turc avec un accent fort
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 an llangues
to be good/bad/ hopeless at languages
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rafraichir 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 dialect
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
globish