Chap 12 - L'anglais Flashcards

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1
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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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3
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Un pays anglophone

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An English-speaking country

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4
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Un anglophone

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A native English speaker

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5
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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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7
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Une langue soigné / soutenu

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Formal language

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8
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La langue familière

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Informal language

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9
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L’argot

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Slang

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10
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L’anglais parle / écrit

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Spoken / written English

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11
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Une expressions

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An expression

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12
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Un formule / un slogan

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A catch phrase

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13
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Un mot à la mode

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A buzz Word

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14
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Une expression toute faite / figée

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A set phrase

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15
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Un cliché

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A cliché ( avec accent )

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16
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La langue de bois

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Cant

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17
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Verbiage / blabla

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Waffle

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18
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Un néologisme

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A neologism

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19
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Inventer un mot

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To coin A word

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20
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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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22
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L’orthographe

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Spelling

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23
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Une figure de style

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A figure Of speech

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24
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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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25
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Une litote

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An understatement

26
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Un euphémisme

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A euphemism

27
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Signifier

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To mean

28
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Que veut dire “ x”

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What does “ x “ mean ?

29
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Le sens

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Meaning

30
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Dénué de sens

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Meaningless

31
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En d’autres termes

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In other words

32
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C’est à dire

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That is to say

33
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L’anglais

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English / The English language

34
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Comment dirais je

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How can i put it

35
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Comment dit-on x en anglais

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What’s The English for X

36
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Traduire un text en arabe

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To translate a text into arabic

37
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Traduire un text écrit en japonais

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To translate a text from japanese

38
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Mal traduire quelque chose

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To mistranslate sth

39
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La barrière de la langue

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The language barrier

40
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Parler bien l’espagnol

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To speak spanish well

41
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Parler le portugais couramment

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To speak portuguese fluently

42
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Parle le cantonais sans accent

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To speak Cantonese without an accent

43
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L’aisance de quelqu’un à s’exprimer en suédois

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Sb’S fluency in swedish

44
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Compétence en anglais

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Proficiency in English

45
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Un test de compétence

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A proficiency test

46
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Le toefl

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TOEFL

47
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Parler un mauvais hollandais

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To speak a poor Dutch

48
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Parler mal le chinois

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To speak broken chinese

49
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Parler le turc avec un fort accent

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To speak heavily accented Turkish

50
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S’exprimer

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To express oneself

51
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Se faire comprendre

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To make oneself understood

52
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Etre bon / mauvais / nul en langues

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To be good / bad / hopeless at languages

53
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Rafraîchir son allemand

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To brush up one’s German

54
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Suivre des cours d’italien

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To do an italian course

55
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Un accent marque

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A broad accent

56
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Mauvais anglais / anglais de cuisine

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Pidgin English

57
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Un dialecte

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A dialect

58
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Le charabia

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Gibberish

59
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Jargon

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Jargon

60
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Charabia incompréhensible

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Mumbo jumbo

61
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L’anglais simplifie par les non anglais

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Globish