I’m a native English speaker and I’ve never heard of the expression “Joie de vivre”, so I don’t understand how “Joie de vivre” is the English translation of “Joie de vivre”.
I’m a native English speaker and I’ve never heard of the expression “Joie de vivre”, so I don’t understand how “Joie de vivre” is the English translation of “Joie de vivre”.
From a French perspective though it’s mixed French/English until the end which would be entirely French.
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Complete with a link to spreadfirefox.com that seems to be broken.
But well done for so densely packing French loan words (loan phrases?) into a single paragraph!
One funny thing I've noticed with French EFL speakers of medium proficiency is that they too think all those loanwords from French aren't English words. It's always fun to troll them dropping a en route and look at their reaction.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/joie%20de%20vivre
This one’s on you. Here’s a helpful list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_French_expressio...
https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=Joie+de+vivr...
It's one of those weird specific words that you use to show that you're smarter than you are (this doesn't apply to Stephen Fry of course :D )
It has been estimated that English has more than a million words, what percentage do you think you actually know?
> Typically native speakers know 15,000 to 20,000 word families - or lemmas - in their first language.
Sounds about right to me.