Deck 13: English Flashcards by Ethan Brouillet | Brainscape

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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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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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Un pléonasme

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A pleonasm

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Inventer un mot

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To coin a word

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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

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An understatement

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Un euphémisme

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An euphemism

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Vouloir dire, signifier

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To mean

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Que veut dire «gibberish» ?

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What does «gibberish» mean?

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Le sens

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Meaning

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Dénué de sens

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Meaningless

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En d’autres termes

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In other words

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C’est à dire

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That is to say

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Comment dirais-je ?

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How can I put it?

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Comment dit-on «chic» en anglais ?

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What’s the English for «chic» ?

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Traduire un texte en arabe

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To translate a text into Arabic

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Traduire un texte du japonais

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To translate a text from Japanese

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Mal traduire qqch

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To mistranslate sth

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La barrière de la langue

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The language barrier

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Parler le cantonais sans accent

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To speak Cantonese without an accent

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Parler bien l’espagnol

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To speak Spanish well, to speak good Spanish

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Parler le portugais couramment

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To speak Portuguese fluently, to speak fluent Portuguese

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L’aisance de qqn a s’exprimer en suédois

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Sb’s fluency in Swedish

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Compétence en anglais

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Proficiency in English

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Un test de compétence

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A proficiency test

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Le TOEFL

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TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)

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Parler un mauvais hollandais

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To speak poor Dutch

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Parler mal le chinois

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To speak broken Chinese

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Parler le turc avec un fort accent

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To speak heavily accented Turkish

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S’exprimer

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To express oneself

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Se faire comprendre

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To make oneself understood

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Être bon / mauvais / nul en langues

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To be good / bad / hopeless at languages

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Rafraîchir son allemand

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To brush up one’s German

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Suivre un cours d’italien

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To do an Italian course

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Un accent marqué, prononcé

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A broad accent

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Anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais, sabir

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Pidgin English

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Un dialecte

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A dialect

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Le charabia

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Gibberish, gobbledygook

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Jargon, sabir

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Jargon, lingo

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Charabia incompréhensible

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Mumbo jumbo

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L’anglais simplifié parlé par les non-anglophones

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Globish

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Être ironique

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To have your tongue in your cheek

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Avoir la parole facile, du bagou

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To have the gift of the gab

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Des banalités

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Small talks

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Passez-moi l’expression

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Excuse my French

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Un lapsus

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A slip of the tongue

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Mettre les points sur les i

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To dot your i’s and cross your t’s