foreign language

English

Noun

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

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, 外语 (ngoi⁶ jyu⁵), 外國語, 外国语 (ngoi⁶ gwok³ jyu⁵)

Dungan: вэйү (vejy)

Mandarin: 外語 (zh), 外语 (zh) (wàiyǔ), 外國語 (zh), 外国语 (zh) (wàiguóyǔ), 外文 (zh) (wàiwén)
Czech: cizí jazyk m
Danish: fremmedsprog n
Dutch: vreemde taal c
Esperanto: fremda lingvo
Estonian: võõrkeel
Finnish: vieras kieli
French: langue étrangère (fr) f
Georgian: უცხო ენა (ucxo ena)
German: Fremdsprache (de) f
Hebrew: שפה זרה‎ f (safá zara)
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: zimanê biyanî (ku)

Kyrgyz: чет тили (çet tili), чет элдик тили (çet eldik tili)
Lao: ພາສາຕ່າງປະເທດ (phā sā tāng pa thēt)
Latvian: svešvaloda f
Lithuanian: užsienio kalba f
Macedonian: стра́нски ја́зик m (stránski jázik)
Malay: bahasa asing
Nahuatl: pinotlahtōlli
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fremmedspråk n
Old English: feorcumen m
Persian: زبان خارجی‎ (zabân-e xâreji)
Polish: język obcy (pl) m
Portuguese: idioma estrangeiro m, língua estrangeira (pt) f
Romanian: limbă străină f
Russian: иностра́нный язы́к (ru) m (inostránnyj jazýk)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: страни језик m

Roman: strani jezik m
Slovak: cudzí jazyk m
Slovene: tuji jezik m
Spanish: lengua extranjera f
Swedish: främmande språk (sv) n
Tajik: забони хориҷӣ (zaboni xorijī)
Tatar: чит тел (çit tel)
Thai: ภาษาต่างประเทศ (paa-sǎa dtàang bprà-têet)
Turkish: yabancı dil (tr)
Turkmen: daşary ýurt dili
Ukrainian: інозе́мна мо́ва f (inozémna móva)
Uyghur: چەت تىلى‎ (chet tili)
Uzbek: chet dil
Vietnamese: ngoại ngữ (vi)
Volapük: foginänapük
Zulu: please add this translation if you can

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