english vocab 2 Flashcards by Maelys DARTHOIS | Brainscape

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la langue anglaise

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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 la 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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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, 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

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a quotation, a quote

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citer qn

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to quote somebody

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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 métaphore

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a metaphor

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une figure de style

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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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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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pour le dire autrement

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to put it differently

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c’est a 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

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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

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parler bien l’espagnol

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to speak Spanish well, to speak good Spanish

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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

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un test de compétence

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a proficiency test

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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

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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

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la barrière de la langue

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the language barrier

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faire une faute

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to make a mistake

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la correction grammaticale

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grammatical correctness

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être bon/ mauvais / nul en langues

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to be good / bad / hopeless at languages

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rafraîchir 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

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la prononciation

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pronunciation

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prononcer

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to pronounce

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prononciation standard

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Received Pronunciation

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une diphtongue

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a diphthong

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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

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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

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la ponctuation

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punctuation

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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 (GB), a period (US)

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une virgule

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a comma

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deux points

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a colon

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un point virgule

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a semi-colon

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un point d’interrogation

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a question mark

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un point d’exclamation

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an exclamation mark (GB), exclamation point (US)

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un tiret

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a dash

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a hyphen

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un trait d’union

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anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais

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pidgin English

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un dialecte

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a dialect

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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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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

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l’anglais approximatif parlé par les non anglophones

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globish

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le jargon des informaticiens

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computerese

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le jargon des journalistes

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journalese

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le jargon des écoles de commerce

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management-speak, managementese