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Translation for 'broken English'

  • 17-06-2014 8:33am
    #1
    EhBenDisDonc
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭


    I'm seeking a French equivalent of 'broken English'. I'm trying to convey how we tend to talk garbled English to foreigners: slowly, loudly and in broken English.
    Not quite pidgin. And 'mauvais Anglais' or 'Anglais maladroit' dont quite do it.
    Merci.
    D


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  • #2
    playedalive
    Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭playedalive


    The verb baragouiner (je baragouine en anglais) has that idea of speaking a language in a rather limited or pidgin way. It would express how you truly speak the language though, imo. Maybe a more expert French speaker could clarify.

    Maybe je parle dans un anglais moins courant pour que les étrangers me comprennent. 'Moins courant' means less fluently, with possibly the idea that it's not commonplace English.


  • #3
    EhBenDisDonc
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭EhBenDisDonc


    Thank you playedalive. I've settled on 'un Anglais simplifié' for now.


  • #4
    playedalive
    Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭playedalive


    EhBenDisDonc wrote: »
    Thank you playedalive. I've settled on 'un Francais simplifié' for now.

    Yeah that actually makes more sense. Don't mind me, I was just showing off the randomness I learned in my French degree. :p


  • #5
    EhBenDisDonc
    Registered Users Posts: 102 ✭✭EhBenDisDonc


    playedalive wrote: »
    Don't mind me, I was just showing off the randomness I learned in my French degree. :p
    It was a good effort - my French mother in law said as much when I ran it by her :-)


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