English Flashcards

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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 de langue

Le niveau de langue

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Register

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La langue soignée

La langue soutenue

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Formal language

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La langue familière

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Informal language

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

L’anglais écrit

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Spoken English

Written English

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Une 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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Une expression figée

Une expression 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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Un cliché

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A cliché

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Un dicton

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A saying

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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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Une citation
A quotation | A quote
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Citer quelqu’un
To quote somebody
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Épeler un mot
To spell a word
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L’orthographe
Spelling
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Une métaphore
A metaphor
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Une figure de style
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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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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Pour le dire autrement
To put it differently
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C’est à dire
That is to say
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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 Japanese
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Mal traduire quelque chose
To mistranslate something
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Perler bien l’espagnol
To speak Spanish well | To speak good Spanish
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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
TOEFL | Test Of English as a Foreign Language
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Le TOEIC
TOEIC | Test Of English for International Communication
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Parler un mauvais hollandais
To speak poor Dutch
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Parler mal le chinois
To speak broken Chinese
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Parler la turc avec un fort accent
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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La barrière de la langue
The language barrier
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Faire une faute
To make a mistake
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La correction grammaticale
Grammatical correctness
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Être bon en langues Être mauvais en langues Être nul en langues
To be good at languages To be bad at languages To be hopeless at languages
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Rafraîchir 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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La prononciation
Pronunciation
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Prononcer
To pronounce
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Prononciation standard
RP | Received Pronunciation
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Une diphtongue
A diphthong
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Imprononçable
Unpronounceable
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Mal prononcer un mot
To mispronounce a word
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L’accent de mot | L’accent de phrase
Word stress | Sentence stress
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Avoir un accent marqué | Avoir un accent prononcé
To have a broad accent
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La ponctuation
Punctuation
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Un signe de ponctuation
A punctuation mark
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Un point
``` A full stop (GB) A period (US) ```
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Une virgule
A comma
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Deux-points
A colon
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Un point-virgule
A semi-colon
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Un point d’interrogation
A question mark
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Un point d’exclamation
An exclamation mark (GB) | An exclamation point (US)
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Un tiret
A dash
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Un trait d’union
A hyphen
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Mauvais anglais | Anglais de cuisine
Pidgin English
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Un dialecte
A dialect
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La langue de bois
Cant
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Verbiage | Blabla
Waffle | Twaddle
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Le charabia
Gibberish | Gobbledygook
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Jargon
Jargon | Lingo
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Charabia incompréhensible
Mumbo jumbo
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L’anglais approximatif parlé par les non-anglophones
Globish
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Le jargon des informaticiens
Computerese
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Le jargon des journalistes
Journalese
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Le jargon des écoles de commerce
Management-speak | Managementese