Vocabulary - Learning Languages
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Complete the following sentences with the nouns from the box.
ANSWERS
mother tongue | revising | native | sit | fluent | brush up | by heart | look | bilingual | pronunciation
1)
Giuseppe is
in four languages.
2)
I'm
for my exams at the moment.
3)
You should
the word up in a dictionary.
4)
Besides Italian, my
, I can also speak French and German.
5)
Susan had difficulty with the
of his name.
6)
He must
on his English before he goes to Dublin.
7)
About 20 per cent of the school's students are
.
8)
I know I'll never speak Spanish like a
speaker.
9)
You'll have to learn phrasal verbs
.
10)
Candidates will
the examinations in December.
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Answers
1)
fluent in (adj)
able to speak or write quickly, especially in a foreign language
2)
revise (v)
to study your previous work in preparation for an examination
3)
look up (pv)
to search for something in a book or reference
4)
mother tongue (n)
your native language
5)
pronunciation (n)
the way in which a word or language is pronounced
6)
brush up (pv)
to quickly improve a skill
7)
bilingual (adj)
speaking two languages equally well
8)
native (adj)
connected with the place where you have always lived
9)
by heart
using only your memory
10)
sit an exam
to do an exam