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English Flashcards

1
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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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Le registre, le niveau de langue

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Register

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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’anglais académique

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Academic English

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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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Un expression

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A phrase/ an expression

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Exprimer, formuler

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To phrase

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Reformuler

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To rephrase, to reformulate

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Une formule, un slogan

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A catch phrase

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18
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Une expression figée, toute faite

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A set phrase

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Un mot à la mode

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A buzz word

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20
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Un cliché

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A cliché

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21
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Un dicton

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A saying

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22
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Un néologisme

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A neologism

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23
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Inventer un mot

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To coin a word

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24
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Un pléonasme

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A pleonasm

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25
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Une citation

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A quotation/ quote

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Citer qqu

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To quote sb

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27
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Épeler un mot

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To spell a word

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28
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L’orthographe

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Spelling

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Une métaphore

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A metaphor

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30
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Une figure de style

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A figure of speech

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31
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Une litote

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An understatement

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32
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Un euphémisme

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A euphemism

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33
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Vouloir dire, signifier

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To mean

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34
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Le sens

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Meaning

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35
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Dénué de sens

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Meaningless

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36
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En d’autres termes

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In other words

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Pour le dire autrement

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To put it differently

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C’est-à-dire

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That is to say

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Traduire un texte en arabe

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To translate a text into Arabic

40
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Traduire un texte du japonais

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To translate a text from Japanese

41
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Mal traduire qch

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To mistranslate smth

42
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Parler bien l’espagnol

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To speak Spanish well, to speak good Spanish

43
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L’aisance de qqu 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 (test of English as a foreign language)

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Le TOEIC

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TOEIC (test of english for international communication)

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Parler un mauvais hollandais

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To speak poor Dutch

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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Parler mal le chinois

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To speak broken Chinese

51
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S’exprimer

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To express oneself

52
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Se faire comprendre

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To make oneself understood

53
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La barrière de la langue

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The language barrier

54
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Faire une faute

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To make a mistake

55
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La correction grammaticale

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Grammatical correctness

56
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Être bon/ mauvais/ nul en langues

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To be good/ bad/ Hopeless at languages

57
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Rafraîchir son allemand

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To brush up one’s German

58
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Suivre un cours d’italien

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To do an italian course

59
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La prononciation

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Pronunciation

60
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Prononcer

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To pronounce

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Prononciation standard

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RP, received pronunciation

62
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Une diphtongue

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A diphthong

63
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Imprononçable

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Unpronounceable

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Mal prononcer un mot

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To mispronounce a word

65
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L’accent de mot/ de phrase

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Word stress/ sentence stress

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Avoir un accent marqué, prononcé

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To have a broad accent

67
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La ponctuation

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Punctuation

68
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Un signe de ponctuation

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A punctuation mark

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Un point

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A full stop, a period

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Une virgule

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A comma

71
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Deux points

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A colon

72
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Un point virgule

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A semi-colon

73
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Un point d’interrogation

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A question mark

74
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Un point d’exclamation

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An exclamation mark/ exclamation point

75
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Un tiret

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A dash

76
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Un trait d’union

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A hyphen

77
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Anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais, sabir

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Pidgin English

78
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Un dialecte

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A dialect

79
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La langue de boisb

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Cant

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Verbiage, blabla

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Waffle, twaddle

81
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Le charabia

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Gibberish, gobbledygook

82
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Jargon, sabir

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Jargon, lingo

83
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Charabia incompréhensible

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Mumbo jumbo

84
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L’anglais approximatif parlé par les non-anglophones

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Globish

85
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Le jargon des informaticiens

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Computerese

86
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Le jargon des journalistes

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Journalese

87
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Le jargon des journalistes

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Journalese

88
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Le jargon des écoles de commerce

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Management-speak, managementese

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