Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On one hand, you speak perfectly the world's most useful language. But on the other, no one wants to speak anything else with you - making foreign language acquisition difficult.
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Anglophone
//ˈæŋɡləˌfəʊn//
Synonyms for "anglophone" (1 found)
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76 translations across 30 languages.
Catalan
3 entries- anglòfon adj (English-speaking)
- anglòfon noun (one who speaks English)
- anglòfona noun (one who speaks English)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 操英語的 /操英语的 adj (English-speaking)
- 講英語的人 /讲英语的人 noun (one who speaks English)
Czech
2 entries- anglofonní adj (English-speaking)
- anglojazyčný adj (English-speaking)
Danish
2 entries- engelsksproget adj (English-speaking)
- engelsktalende adj (English-speaking)
Dutch
3 entries- Engelssprekende adj (English-speaking)
- Engelstalig adj (English-speaking)
- Engelssprekende noun (one who speaks English)
Esperanto
3 entries- anglaparola adj (English-speaking)
- anglalingvano noun (one who speaks English)
- anglaparolanto noun (one who speaks English)
Finnish
2 entries- englanninkielinen adj (English-speaking)
- englanninpuhuja noun (one who speaks English)
French
2 entries- anglophone adj (English-speaking)
- anglophone noun (one who speaks English)
Galician
2 entries- anglofalante adj (English-speaking)
- anglofalante noun (one who speaks English)
Georgian
1 entries- ინგლისურენოვანი adj (English-speaking)
German
4 entries- anglophon adj (English-speaking)
- englischsprachig adj (English-speaking)
- Englischsprachige noun (one who speaks English)
- Englischsprachiger noun (one who speaks English)
Greek
1 entries- αγγλόφωνος noun (one who speaks English)
Hungarian
3 entries- angol ajkú adj (English-speaking)
- angol nyelvű adj (English-speaking)
- angolul beszélő adj (English-speaking)
Irish
1 entries- Béarlóir noun (one who speaks English)
Italian
3 entries- anglofono adj (English-speaking)
- anglofona noun (one who speaks English)
- anglofono noun (one who speaks English)
Japanese
1 entries- 英語話者 noun (one who speaks English)
Latin
2 entries- Anglophona noun (one who speaks English)
- Anglophonus noun (one who speaks English)
Lithuanian
3 entries- anglakal̃bis adj (English-speaking)
- anglakal̃bis noun (one who speaks English)
- anglakal̃bė noun (one who speaks English)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- engelskspråklig adj (English-speaking)
- engelsktalende adj (English-speaking)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- engelskspråkleg adj (English-speaking)
- engelsktalande adj (English-speaking)
Persian
2 entries- انگلیسیزبان adj (English-speaking)
- انگلیسیزبان noun (one who speaks English)
Polish
3 entries- angielskojęzyczny adj (English-speaking)
- anglojęzyczny adj (English-speaking)
- anglofon noun (one who speaks English)
Portuguese
4 entries- anglofalante adj (English-speaking)
- anglófono adj (English-speaking)
- anglofalante noun (one who speaks English)
- anglófona noun (one who speaks English)
Romanian
2 entries- anglofon adj (English-speaking)
- anglofon noun (one who speaks English)
Russian
4 entries- англоговоря́щий adj (English-speaking)
- англоязы́чный adj (English-speaking)
- англоговоря́щий noun (one who speaks English)
- англоязы́чный noun (one who speaks English)
Spanish
4 entries- anglohablante adj (English-speaking)
- angloparlante adj (English-speaking)
- anglófono adj (English-speaking)
- anglohablante noun (one who speaks English)
Swedish
4 entries- engelskspråkig adj (English-speaking)
- engelsktalande adj (English-speaking)
- engelskspråkig noun (one who speaks English)
- engelsktalande noun (one who speaks English)
Ukrainian
1 entries- англомо́вний adj (English-speaking)
Volapük
1 entries- Linglänapükan noun (one who speaks English)
Welsh
1 entries- Saesneg adj (English-speaking)
Sample sentences
14 total sentences available.
The Italian language dies a little every time an anglophone orders "a panini".
Source: tatoeba (795923)
Being an anglophone is a double-edged sword. On the one hand you speak the world's most useful language perfectly, but then no one wants to talk with you in another language, which makes the process of learning foreign languages more difficult.
Source: tatoeba (5139819)
When he was a child, a former Prime Minister of Canada, whose father was a francophone from Quebec and whose mother was an anglophone, supposed that all boys spoke French with their fathers and English with their mothers.
Source: tatoeba (5951764)
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