Sentences with phrase «idiomatic english»

Displaying a similar enjoyment of idiomatic English, the current show, Scruff of the Neck, imagines the two floors of the gallery as the interior of a human head.

He begins our history lesson in perfect idiomatic English: «You must realize that the Savoie has been a part of France for no time at all — only since 1860 — not even as long as our Caribbean possessions, which we got in the 17th century.

Max says his command of idiomatic English today is «totally awesome.»

It might not be idiomatic English, but literally that means «the lived convictions».

Or, it could be that anyone with half a brain would realize you're going to be more successful if you speak idiomatic English, so they must just be clueless if they haven't gotten rid of their strong accent.

Not exact matches

That is, instead of seeking to reproduce in English the formal structures — syntactic, imagistic, idiomatic — of the original texts, the translation strives for analogous «structural, semantic, and idiomatic units that are native to the receptor language.»

The imperative «wait», which sounds awkward in English, could be translated as something like «you can look forward to that» or the cheesy, idiomatic «stay tuned», but the interpreter cleverly translated it as «don't sleep,» which doesn't really distort what Loma was trying to say, and has the effect of telling the crowd to get hyped up what's coming up next.

The worksheets cover in particular the following aspects: fun with French words idiomatic aspects of the language the essential role of synonyms common vocabulary in context linguistic links between French and English the oddities of the French language modern uses of the language anecdotes to stimulate interest and discussions the pitfalls to avoid with false friends variety of French language usage

For AP students: it can be a good complement to the unit «Les défis mondiaux - la santé ou l'alimentation» as it uses a lot of vocabulary related to diet, food... About 650 words of story 13 questions (grammar, vocabulary and comprehension) answers sheet included Quizlet link to french / english vocabulary A table with main idiomatic expressions using food Requires a good level in French.

Tony Award winners Miranda and Olivo fluidly deliver complicated passages, moving from Spanish to English, didactic to idiomatic, while maintaining a gleeful irreverence in the saga of «ghetto nerd» Oscar.

«But, almost twenty years later, the older artist additionally explained, ``... it was partly a title perversely ironic... Only later did I learn that in «English» «homely» means «homebody,» which also happens to be true of me... But at the time I named it I was referring to the American idiomatic use of being «not beautiful,» not attractive... which I felt more about the picture than myself.»

For some interesting comments on adapting idiomatic expressions, check out this site: http://www.london-translations.co.uk/french-translations/idioms.html (in English).

Standard dictionary - based algorithms often produce nonsensical English translations because the nuances of localized idiomatic expressions are lost.