anglais

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Cards (66)

To follow along? 
suivre
pervasive?
généralisé
to morph into?
to transform into
fluency ? 
the ability to speak and write a foreign language
to borrow ?
to appropriate
overwhelmingly ?
completely
stilted ? 
manquant de naturel
to crumble ? 
désintégrer
to embrace ? 
to adopt
to plague ? 
tormenter
to convey ? 
transmit
to witness ? 
to see en event happen
to give rise to ? 
to be the origin of, to produce
To improve ? 
to make something better
To take over ?
to replace
to coin ?
to create
dubbed  
le langage a été changé
The Charter of the French Language, also known as Bill 101 (26
August 1977) ?
law in the province of Quebec in Canada, defining French as its official language
to withdraw from somewhere ?
to leave
to sail ?
to go somewhere by boat
to rule something ?
to gouvern
closely ? 
very carefully
to blur something ?
to make the difference between two things unclear
a boundary ? 
a limit
wages ? 
salary , pay
a dialect ? 
a form of language that people speak in a particular part of a
country
To drive ? 
to give shape
competing ?
conflicting
range ? 
a series of different things
Jargon refers to ?
a language spoken by a specific group
A vulgar language includes ?
profanities and swear words and
offends or upsets people
slang ? 
a type of language that is specific to some
groups from XIX centery
What is a lingua franca?? 
a language used between groups of people who speak different languages
What is slang ?
an informal language only used by people who belong to a particular group
Dosh ? 
money
A currency ?
une devise
a pork pie ?
a lie
to frown upon something ?
désapprouver quelque chose
to linger ? 
to last, to be slow to disappear
to stress something ?
to insist