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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
a quotation, a quote
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citer qn
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 a 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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parler 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 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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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/ 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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la prononciation
pronunciation
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prononcer
to pronounce
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prononciation standard
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 / de phrase
word stress/ sentence stress
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avoir un accent marqué, 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), exclamation point (US)
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un tiret
a dash
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a hyphen
un trait d'union
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anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais
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, sabir
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

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