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Chinese language
HSK 1
foreign language / CL: 門|门
HSK 1
English (language)
HSK 2
word (general term including monosyllables through to short phrases) / term (e.g. technical term) / expression
HSK 2
language / CL: 門|门, 種|种
HSK 2
speech sounds / pronunciation / colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character / phonetic / audio / voice / (Internet) to voice chat / voice message
HSK 4
grammar
HSK 4
colloquial speech / spoken language / vernacular language / slander / gossip / CL: 門|门
HSK 4
Chinese set expression, typically of 4 characters, often alluding to a story or historical quotation; idiom; proverb; saying; adage / CL: 條|条, ,
HSK 5
words / speech / (spoken) language
HSK 5
Chinese language
HSK 5
Japanese language
HSK 6
French (language)
HSK 6
(idiom) to talk to oneself; to think aloud; to soliloquize
HSK 6
Spanish language
HSK 6
tone / manner of speaking / mood / CL: 個|个
HSK 7-9
Arabic (language)
HSK 7-9
riddle / conundrum / CL: 條|条
HSK 7-9
written slogan / placard / CL: , 張|张, 條|条
HSK 7-9
common saying / proverb / colloquial speech
HSK 7-9
words / speech / utterance / discourse
HSK 7-9
Russian (language)
HSK 7-9
cheers and laughter
HSK 7-9
instinctive feel for the language
Uzbek language
sentence
to make a remark that startles everyone present (idiom) / (of a remark) startling
slogan banner
Manchurian language
quotation (from a book or existing source)
target language (linguistics)
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  *语* | 语* | *语
dialect / language / speech
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  *语* | 语* | *语
(literary) to tell; to let (sb) know
bilingual
western language / Spanish (language)
honorific (e.g. in grammar of oriental languages)
phrase (grammar)
Indonesian language
flowery writing / writing concerning love and sex
pragmatics
literature and language / (PRC) Chinese (as a school subject)
voice (grammar)
Chinese language (Mandarin), emphasizing its national nature / Chinese as a primary or secondary school subject / Chinese in the context of the Nationalist Government / Guoyu, book of historical narrative c. 10th-5th century BC
epistolary formula used at the head of a letter
Esperanto
to give an earnest message of good wishes, encouragement, or advice etc; a message of this sort
target language (for translation)
Lin Yutang (1895-1976), Chinese writer, linguist and inventor
proverb
Wu dialects (spoken primarily in Shanghai and surrounding areas)
Vietnamese language, Tiếng Việt
to speak / to tell
context
natural language processing, NLP
language type (in a classification)
assembly language
monogatari / epic narrative (Japanese literary form)
subjunctive
incantation / spell / enchantment / curse
Thai (language)
(grammatical) predicate
Shanghai International Studies University (SISU)
preamble / introduction / (journalism) lede / lead paragraph
adverbial adjunct (adverb or adverbial clause)
Korean language (esp. in context of South Korea)
language training
faulty wording / mispronunciation due to a speech defect
choice of words / wording / phraseology / term
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
common saying / idiom
slang
meaning of words / semantic
German (language)
attributive (modifier)
code word; coded language / to communicate in private
superfluous words / pleonasm
lit. to speak of two things on the same day (idiom); to mention things on equal terms (often with negatives: you can't mention X at the same time as Y)
native language / mother tongue / (linguistics) parent language
idle gossip / irrelevant nonsense / slanderous rumor
(linguistics) language material; language data
to discuss in whispered tones / whispered conversation
as the saying goes...
intonation / tone of voice / CL: 個|个
mutter
talking and laughing / cheerful talk
object (grammar)
graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words / cheating wheedling / dishonest rhetoric
lit. birdsong and fragrant flowers (idiom); fig. the intoxication of a beautiful spring day
babbling nonsense (idiom); crazy and unfounded ravings / double Dutch
subject (in grammar)
in a few words (idiom); expressed succinctly
(idiom) to whisper
rumors and slanders (idiom); gossip / lies and slanders
Tibetan language
meaning / content of speech or writing / semantic
Korean language
craze for learning English
anapodoton (a saying in which the second part, uttered after a pause or totally left out, is the intended meaning of the allegory presented in the first part)
(idiom) sweet words / sweet talk / cajolery

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