Vocabullary Test Quiz
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Getting _____ a language means to know just enough of a language for simple communication.
A. on with
B. by in
C. by
D. along with
_____ is a way of pronouncing the words of a language that shows which country or area a person comes from
A. Dialect
B. Mother tongue
C. Accent
D. Tone
He spoke a _____ of French that we found hard to understand.
A. slang
B. jargon
C. dialect
D. language
Teachers provide a model for children to _____.
A. allow
B. behave
C. change
D. imitate
_____ is the language that you learn to speak from birth.
A. dialect
B. official language
C. first language
D. second language
She _____ up some Spanish when she was living in Mexico.
A. took
B. looked
C. picked
D. learnt
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_____ is the language you learn to soeak well and that you use for work or at school, but that is not the language you learned first at home.
A. second language
B. first language
C. sign language
D. offical language
Louis is vitually bilingual _____ Dutch and German.
A. on
B. in
C. for
D. with
My French is a bit _____. I haven’t used it in a while.
A. fluent
B. rusty
C. flexbile
D. bilingual
____ a language means learning a language by practising it, rather than by learning it in a class.
A. Picking up
B. Getting by in
C. Looking up
D. Searching for
_____ is generally used in the government, public administration, law and the education system.
A. Body language
B. Second language
C. Official language
D. Sign language
She spoke English with a(n)_____ that I couldn’t understand.
A. accent
B. stress
C. intonation
D. tone
Sound symbolism means that we often _____ the meaning of a word from its sound.
A. guess
B. judge
C. imagine
D. expect
English learners can learn how to speak English accent by _____ native speakers.
A. guessing
B. looking up
C. imitating
D. translating
I can have a conversation in Italian, but I’m a _____ rusty.
A. bit
B. lot
C. very
D. too
If someone is _____, he/she is able to speak two languages equally well because he/she learned them as a child.
A. fluent
B. rusty
C. bilingual
D. flexible
Is English a(n) ______ language in your country?
A. mother
B. official
C. living
D. old
Computers offer a much greater degree of _____ in the way work can be organized.
A. flexible
B. flexibility
C. flexibly
D. inflexibe
_____ is a regional form of a language in which some words and grammar differ slightly from the standard form of the same language.
A. Dialect
B. Accent
C. Tone
D. Intonation
Peter can just get ______ in German.
A. up
B. down
C. out
D. by
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