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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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English taught as a foreign language

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Standard English

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9
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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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17
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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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19
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La langue de bois

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Cant

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20
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Verbiage

Blabla

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Waffle

Twaddle

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21
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Un néologisme

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A neologism

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22
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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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25
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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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Euphemism

30
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How many people speak English today?

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1.5 billion people (1/4 the world population)

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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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Surfant sur la vague

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Riding the crest

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Domaine

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Endeavor

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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”?

41
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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 quelque chose

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To mistranslate something

44
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Qui suit

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Monitoring

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Argot

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Slang

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Engendrés

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Spawned

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Authentique

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Genuine

48
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Navigateur

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Browser

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La barrière de la langue

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The language barrier

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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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Parler le cantonais sans accent

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To speak Cantonese without an accent

53
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L’aisance de quelqu’un A s’exprimer en suédois

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Somebody’s fluency in Swedish

54
Q

Compétence en anglais

A

Proficiency in English

55
Q

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

61
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Être bon/mauvais/nul en langues

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To be good/bad/hopeless at languages

62
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Rafraîchir son allemand

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To brush up one’s German

63
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Suivre un cours d’italien

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To do an Italian course

64
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Un accent marqué

prononcé

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A broad accent

65
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Anglais de cuisine
Mauvais anglais
Sabir

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Pidgin English

66
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Un dialecte

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A dialect

67
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Le charabia

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Gibberish

Gobbledygook

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Jargon

Sabir

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Jargon

lingo

69
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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

“Lingua Franca”

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Un test de compétence

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A proficiency test

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