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.
Translations[edit]
any language other than that spoken by the people of a specific place
- Albanian: gjuhë e huaj f
- Arabic: لُغَة أَجْنَبِيَّة f (luḡa ʔajnabiyya)
- 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)
- Burmese: ဘာသာခြား (my) (bhasahkra:), ဘာသန္တရ (my) (bhasanta.ra.)
- Catalan: llengua estrangera (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 外語/外语 (ngoi6 jyu5), 外國語/外国语 (ngoi6 gwok3 jyu5), 番話/番话 (faan1 waa6-2)
- Dungan: вэйү (veyü)
- Hakka: 番話/番话 (fan1 fa4)
- Hokkien: 外語/外语 (gōa-gú / gōa-gí)
- Mandarin: 外語/外语 (zh) (wàiyǔ), 外國語/外国语 (zh) (wàiguóyǔ), 外文 (zh) (wàiwén) (in written form)
- Teochew: 番話/番话, 番话 (huang1 uê7)
- Crimean Tatar: ecnebiy til
- 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: שָׂפָה זָרָה f (safá zará), 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 tılı)
- Khmer: ភាសាបរទេស (phiəsaa bɑɑrĕəʼteih)
- Korean: 외국어(外國語) (ko) (oegugeo), 외어(外語) (oeeo)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: zimanê biyanî (ku), zimanê ejnebî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: чет тили (cet tili), чет элдик тили (cet eldik tili)
- Lao: ພາສາຕ່າງປະເທດ (phā sā tāng pa thēt)
- Latvian: svešvaloda f
- Lithuanian: užsienio kalba f
- Macedonian: странски јазик m (stranski jazik)
- Malay: bahasa asing (ms)
- Nahuatl: pinotlahtōlli
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: fremmedspråk n
- Old English: feorcumen m
- Persian: زبان خارجی (zabân-e xâreji)
- Pirahã: ’apagáiso
- 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)
- Urdu: پَرْدیسی زَبان f (pardesī zubān), غیر مُلْکی زَبان (ġair mulki zubān), بِدیسی زَبان f (bidesī zubān)
- Uyghur: چەت تىلى (chet tili)
- Uzbek: chet dil
- Vietnamese: ngoại ngữ (vi)
- Volapük: foginänapük
- Yiddish: פֿרעמדע שפּראַך f (fremde shprakh)
- Zulu: please add this translation if you can
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