Common English Translation Errors and Corrections
crowded: overcrowded
absurdly: ludicrously
save: save
Garlic: garlic
German: German
German: German
Widely: widely
animate: Encourage
off: turn off
appear: turn up
Arab Saudi: Saudi Arabia
burn: blaze
Argentina: Argentinian
Wardrobe: cupboard
Rice: Rice
roast: roast
jam: traffic jam
Headphones: Headphones
waste: litter
beat: beat
wallet: ballet
Soft: Soft
search: look for
Knight: knight
global warming: global warming
Canada: Canadian
tired: tiring
tired: weary
Almost: nearly
shopping-center: shopping mall
by: nearby
pig: pork
Mandarin
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French School Vocabulary: Essential Terms
Abandonner une matière = drop a subject
Activités extra-sco = after-school activity
Agenda = diary
Aider quelqu’un à faire quelque chose = help somebody to do something
Aller à l’école = go to school
Aller à l’uni = get into university
Année sabbatique = gap year
Apprendre de ses erreurs = learn from mistakes
Arriver à faire = keep up with
Avoir des ennuis = get into trouble
Avoir un diplôme = have a degree
Bac = A level
Bibliothèque = library
Bien s’entendre
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Idioms and Slang
Idioms
- Run in the family: Ve de família
- Blood is thicker than water: Unió de sang
- Settle in/put down roots: Echar raíces
- Settle down: Establir-se
- Past your/its time: Se t’ha passat l’hora
- Live in the past: Viure al passat
- Call the shots: Make important decisions
- Get your own way: Poder fer el teu camí
- Play it safe: Jugar segur
- Jump at the chance: Qui no s’arrisca no pisca
- Miss the boat: Perdre el tren
- (Be) out of luck: No estar de sort
Slang
- Cheers: Adéu/Hola/Sort
- Damn it!: Casum l’olla
- And
Understanding Love, Relationships, and Marriage
Expressions of Love
- I love you (to love): aimer
- (to) have a soft spot for you: s’en pincer pour
- I fancy her (to fancy): avoir envie
- A hell of a lot: énormément
- I adore you (to adore): adorer
- Taken a fancy to you (to take a fancy to): s’enticher de
- (to have) a crush on: être fou de
- Head over heels: éperdument
- In love with you (to be in love with): être amoureux de
- Lost my heart to (to lose your heart to): perdre son coeur à
- Infatuated: amoureux fou
- Captivated: fasciné
- Nuts about: fou de
- Am mad about you
French Grammar: Negation, Conditional, Subjunctive
French Negation
Pas de tout: Not at all
Pas Question: Not a chance
Absolument pas: Absolutely not
Moi Pas: Not me
Ce Pas: Not this
Pas encore: Not yet
Toujours pas: Still not
Rien: Nothing
Jamais: Never
Plus: More
Pas Plus: Not anymore
Personne: Nobody
Nulle Part: Nowhere
Que: Only
Aucun(e): None
Ne … Ni … Ni …: Neither … Nor …
Conditional Sentences in French
Conditional sentences express what would happen if a certain condition were met.
- Possible: Si + Present + Present / Future / Imperative
- Improbable:
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In 1939, an Austrian mountaineer named Herrer started his expedition to climb in the Himalayas. The expedition lasted seven years.
Harrer’s story was published in 1953 and has been translated into 48 languages.
Harrer was proud and arrogant, while the Tibetans were humble.
Herrer met the young Dalai Lama, and they became friends. Herrer became a good person.
“Seven Years in Tibet” was made into a film in 1997, and the main actor is Brad Pitt.
According to the text, there are two different types of holidays:
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