English-Portuguese translations for foreign language

• língua estrangeira
  O ensino de uma língua estrangeira constitui, com efeito, o factor-chave da integração. Foreign language learning is indeed the key to integration.
  É incapaz de exprimir as suas ideias em qualquer língua estrangeira. He is incapable of expressing his ideas in any foreign language.
  A realização de testes de inglês como língua estrangeira (os testes TOEFL) foi abandonada, por exemplo. The holding of Tests of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL tests) has been abandoned, for example.
• idioma estrangeiro

Definition of foreign language

• A language that is not widely or officially spoken in a particular place
• A language that is not one's native tongue

Examples

• Irish courts will hear cases in English or Gaelic, but speakers of foreign languages must find an interpreter
• The children struggled in their Welsh lessons because they didnt have any experience of foreign languages

Related words

• foreign land
• foreigners law
• foreign language exam
• foreign-language