vocabulary language

Mother tongue

• the first language that you learn as a child

• the ability to speak/write a language very well

• the quality of being correct

• from a country that is not your own

Learning strategies

• an ability that needs to be learnt and practised

• the ability to speak/write a language very well

• plans, activities and techniques that people

  use to learn something

• from a country that is not your own

foreign

• an ability that needs to be learnt and practised

• the ability to speak/write a language very well

• plans, activities and techniques that people

  use to learn something

• from a country that is not your own

Native speakers

• an ability that needs to be learnt and practised

• people who learnt a language as their fi rst

  language when they were a baby

• words/phrases used by people in the same profession

• from a country that is not your own

Slang

• very informal language that uses new or rude words

  instead of more common words

• the ability to speak two languages fluently

• words/phrases used by people in the same profession

• from a country that is not your own

Jargon

• very informal language that uses new or rude words

  instead of more common words

• the ability to speak two languages fluently

• words/phrases used by people in the same profession

• from a country that is not your own

Fluency

• very informal language that uses new or rude words

  instead of more common words

• the ability to speak/write a language very well without

  stopping frequently

• words/phrases used by people in the same profession

• from a country that is not your own

Accuracy

• an ability that needs to be learnt and practised

• the ability to speak/write a language very well without

  stopping frequently

• words/phrases used by people in the same profession

• the quality of being correct

skill

• an ability that needs to be learnt and practised

• the ability to speak/write a language very well without

  stopping frequently

• words/phrases used by people in the same profession

• the quality of being correct

Bilingual

• an ability that needs to be learnt and practised

• very informal language that uses new or rude words

• the ability to speak two languages fluently

• the ability to speak/write a language very well