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Second Language Idioms

If you master a second language by the age of ten, native speakers won’t recognize that it’s not your first. Even so, things like idioms or prepositions can often trip up even the most skilled second-language speakers, if their second...

jiggy-vous

jiggy-vous  n.— « “Jiggy-vous.” That pie slice of French-Canadian patois was a favorite saying of the teenage Gordon Lightfoot. It means “all right.” » —“If you could read his mind” by Steve...

angry-phone

angry-phone  n.— «That rarest of breeds in the largely French-speaking province, Mr. Galganov is a bilingual Quebecker who rallies for the rights of English speakers (Anglophones) and against secession from Canada. That makes him an...