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Espaces et Échanges (1) Flashcards

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Un camp de réfugiés

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A refugee camp

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Chanceux ≠ malchanceux

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Lucky ≠ unlucky

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Un demandeur d’asile

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An asylum seeker

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La douane

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The customs

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Douaniers

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Customs officers

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(s’) échapper (de)

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To escape from

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Un émigrant

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An emigrant

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L’émigration

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Emigration

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Émigrer

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To emigrate

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S’enfuir

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To flee/run away

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L’exil

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Exile

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S’exiler

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To go into exile

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Une frontière

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A border

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Une guerre (civile)

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A (civil) war

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La liberté

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Freedom

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Libre

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Free

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Malheureux

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Miserable

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Passer les frontières

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Crossing borders

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Une occasion

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An opportunity

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Un passeur

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A smuggler

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Un refuge

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A shelter

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Un réfugié politique

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A political refugee

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Traverser

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To cross

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L’immigration

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Immigration

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Accueillir

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To welcome

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Une demande de neutralisation

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A citizenship application

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Déraciné

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Uprooted

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Un emploi mal payé

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A low-paid job

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Les épreuves

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Hardships

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L’espoir

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Hope

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Exploiter qqun

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To exploit

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Gagner sa vie

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To earn one’s living

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Un immigré clandestin

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An illegal immigrant

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Une loi sur l’immigration

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An immigration law

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La main-d’œuvre (bon marché)

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(Cheap) labour

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Ouvrir ses frontières

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To open one’s borders

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La pauvreté

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Un permis de séjour, de travail

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A residence permit, a green card [US]

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Un permis de travail

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A work permit

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Sans papiers

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Undocumented

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Sous-payé

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Un travail ingrat

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An unrewarding job

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Avoir accès à

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To have access to

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Faire fortune

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To make a fortune

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Gravir l’échelle sociale

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To climd the social ladder

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Partir de rien

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To start from scratch

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Une perspective

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A prospect

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Plein d’espoir

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Full of hope, hopeful

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Réaliser un rêve

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To fulfil [GB] / fulfill [US] a dream

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Réussir

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To succeed (in + V-ing)

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Rêver

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La richesse

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Wealth, affluence

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Un souhait

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Souhaiter

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To wish/yearn (for)

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Subvenir aux besoins de sa famille

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To provide for one’s family

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Une société multiculturelle

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A multicultural society

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S’adapter (à)

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To adapt (to)

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Améliorer

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To improve

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Avoir des difficultés à

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To have difficulty + V-ing

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Avoir du mal à

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To find it hard to + BV

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Bien intégré

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Well-integrated

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La citoyenneté

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Citizenship

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Une communauté culturelle

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A cultural community

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Les conditions de vie

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Living conditions

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Un étranger

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A foreigner

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L’intégration

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Integration

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S’intégrer

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To blend (in)

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Une langue étrangère

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A foreign language

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Un mariage mixte

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A mixed (race) marriage

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Un mode de vie

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A lifestyle

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D’origine étrangère

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Foreign-born

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Partagé entre deux cultures

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Torn between two cultures

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Les usages

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Les traditions

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Traditions

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Étudier, vivre à l’étranger

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Studying, living abroad

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Une année scolaire

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A school year

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Avoir le mal du pays

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To be/feel homesick

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Une bourse

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A scholarship

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Une candidature

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An application

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Déboussolé

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Disorientated

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Un échange scolaire

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A school exchange

English-Merlot (7 decks)

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