| accent (n)
| British/American/Cockney~/RP~/plummy~
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| admission (n)
| ~ to the EU/university
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| archaic (adj)
| ~ word/attitude
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| bias (n)(v)
| to be ~ed towards/against smth
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| bilingual (adj)
| ~ community/to be ~ in English and Spanish
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| brush up (v)
| to ~ (on) one’s English
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| contribute (v)
| to ~ to the formation of the language
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| dialect (n)
| local/London ~/George~/Scouse/Liverpudlian~/Mancunian~/
Brummy~
~words/specifications
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| dialectal (adj)
| ~ differences between two areas
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| English (n)
| British/American/Australian/Canadian~/the King’s/Queen’~
sloppy~/in plain ~ (idm)
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| enhance (v)
| to ~ marrigability/reputation/efficiency/position of smb
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| eradicate (v)
| to ~ the world’s repository of language/to ~ mistakes/injustice
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| Esperanto (n)
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| flexible (adj)
| ~ language/design/approach/hours
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| flexibility (n)
|
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| fluent (adj)
| a ~ speaker of English
to be ~ in English
to speak/write~ English
a ~ musician/movement
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| fluency (n)
| to require ~ in English for a job
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| language (n)
| native/chief/premier/first/
in-crowd/everyday/link/prestige/strong/body ~
~ skills/laboratory
to talk the same ~ (idm)
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| lingua franca (n)
| e.g. English is becoming the ~ of the world.
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| linguistic (adj)
| ~ abilities/barriers
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| monolingual(adj)
| a ~ dictionary
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| motivation (n)
| to be one’s main ~ for studying the language
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| multilingual (adj)
| ~ country/children
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| obsolete (adj)
| ~ words/skills
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| pronunciation (n)
| English/American ~
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| resist (v)
| to ~ the domination of English
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| slang (n)
| back/rhyming~/army/teenage/prison~
a ~ word/expression/term
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| slang (v)
| e.g. The two students were slanging each other in front of the teacher.
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| speech (n)
| distinct/slurred ~
~ impediments
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| tongue (n)
| native/mother/world ~
to have a loose/sharp ~ (idm)
a slip of the ~
a tongue-in-cheek remark
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| vernacular (adj) (n)
| ~ language
local/Black American~
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| versatile (adj)
| ~ use of English
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