English[edit]
foreign language (plural foreign languages)
- A language that is not widely or officially spoken in a particular place.
Irish courts will hear cases in English or Gaelic, but speakers of foreign languages must find an interpreter.
- A language that is not one's native tongue.
The children struggled in their Welsh lessons because they didn't have any experience of foreign languages.
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Translations[edit]
any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place
- Albanian: gjuhë e huaj
- Arabic: لُغَة أَجْنَبِيَّة f (luḡa ʾajnabiyya)
- Armenian: օտար լեզու (hy) (ōtar lezu)
- Azerbaijani: xarici dil
- Basque: erdara (eu), erdera (eu)
- Belarusian: заме́жная мо́ва f (zamjéžnaja móva)
- Bulgarian: чужд ези́к m (čužd ezík)
- Catalan: llengua estrangera (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 外語 (zh), 外语 (zh) (ngoi6 jyu5), 外國語 (zh), 外国语 (zh) (ngoi6 gwok3 jyu5)
- Dungan: вэйү (veyü)
- Mandarin: 外語 (zh), 外语 (zh) (wàiyǔ), 外國語 (zh), 外国语 (zh) (wàiguóyǔ), 外文 (zh) (wàiwén) (in written form)
- Czech: cizí jazyk m
- Danish: fremmedsprog n
- Dutch: vreemde taal c
- Esperanto: fremda lingvo
- Estonian: võõrkeel
- Finnish: vieras kieli
- French: langue étrangère (fr) f
- Galician: lingua estranxeira f
- Georgian: უცხო ენა (ucxo ena)
- German: Fremdsprache (de) f
- Hebrew: שפה זרה f (safá zara), לַעַז (he) m (lá'az)
- Hindi: विदेशी भाषा f (videśī bhāṣā)
- Hungarian: idegen nyelv (hu)
- Icelandic: útlenska f
- Indonesian: bahasa asing (id)
- Irish: teanga iasachta f
- Italian: lingua straniera
- Japanese: 外国語 (ja) (がいこくご, gaikokugo)
- Kazakh: шет тілі (şet tili)
- Korean: 외국어 (ko) (oegugeo) (外國語 (ko)), 외어 (oeeo) (外語 (ko))
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: zimanê biyanî (ku)
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