English the global language ? Flashcards

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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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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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une langue de bois

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cant

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17
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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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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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21
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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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23
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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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a 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 ?

34
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comment dit on “ chic” en anglais ?

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what’s is 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 japonese

37
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mal traduire quelquechose

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to mistranslate something

38
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la barrière de la langue

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the language barrier

39
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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 portuguais 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

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l’ aisance de quelqu’un à s’ exprimer en suédois

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somebody’s fluency in swedish

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compétence en anglais

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proficiency in English

44
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un test de compétence

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a proficiency test

45
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le TOEFL

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test of english as a foreign language

46
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parler un mauvais hollandais

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to speak poor dutch

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parler mal chinois

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to speak broken chinese

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parler le turc avec un accent fort

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to speak heavily accented turkish

49
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s’ exprimer

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to express oneself

50
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se faire comprendre

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to make oneself understood

51
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être bon/mauvais/ nul an llangues

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to be good/bad/ hopeless at languages

52
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rafraichir 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

54
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un accent marqué, prononcé

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a broad accent

55
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anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais, sabir

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pidgin english

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un dialect

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a dialect

57
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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

60
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l’ anglais simplifié

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globish