How to say it in Chinese

Foreign language in Chinese

foreign language · HSK 3

外语 wài yǔ

  1. 外 wài outside
  2. 语 yǔ language

Counted with 门: 一门外语 yì mén wàiyǔ

她会说两门外语。 She can speak two foreign languages.

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How do you say foreign language in Chinese?

Foreign language in Chinese is 外语 (wài yǔ).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.