ENGLISH: the global language 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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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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17
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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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19
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Un néologisme

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a neologism

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20
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Inventer un mot

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To coin a word

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21
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Un pléonasme

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A pleonasm

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22
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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
It is only 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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Que veut dire "gibberish" ?
What does "gibberish" 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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C'est-à-dire
That is to say
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Comment dirais je ?
How can I put it ?
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Comment dit-on "chic" en anglais ?
What's the English for "chic" ?
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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 qqch
To mistranslate sth
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La barrière de la langue
The language barrier
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Parler bien l'espagnol
To speak Spanish well, | To speak good Spanish
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Parler le portugais couramment
To speak Portuguese fluently, | To speak fluent Portuguese
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Parler le cantonais sans accent
To speak Cantonese whitout an accent
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L'aisance de qqn à s'exprimer en suédois
Sb'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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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 le 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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Être bon / mauvais / nul en langues
To be good / bad / 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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Un accent marqué, prononcé
A broad accent
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Anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais, sabir
pidgin English
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Un dialecte
A dialect
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Le charabia
Gibberish, gobbledygook
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Jargon, sabir
Jargon, lingo
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Charabia incompréhensible
Mumbo jungo
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L'anglais simplifié par les non- anglophones
globish