foreign language
Noun
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Noun
foreign language (plural foreign languages)
- A language that is not widely or officially spoken in a particular place.
- Irish courts will hear cases in English or Gaelic, but speakers of foreign languages must find an interpreter.
- A language that is not one's native tongue.
- The children struggled in their Welsh lessons because they didn't have any experience of foreign languages.
- French: langue étrangère
- German: Fremdsprache
- Italian: lingua straniera
- Portuguese: idioma estrangeiro, língua estrangeira
- Russian: иностра́нный язы́к
- Spanish: lengua extranjera
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