Where you're from and what you speak
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Paris is the capital city of France.
China is far from here.
Japan is in the east of Asia.
She lives in England.
We went to France in May.
She teaches French at school.
German is not easy for me.
Germany is in Europe.
Italy is famous for its food.
My brother works in Japan.
Her nationality is French, but she lives abroad.
Canada lies to the north of the United States.
Russia is a very big country.
Russian is my first language.
Australia is in the southern hemisphere.
Spain has warm winters.
I speak a little Spanish.
The village has one small store.
Portugal is on the western edge of Europe.
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Australia is very far away.
Brazil is the biggest country in South America.
He has a British accent.
Canada has two official languages.
Several international charities operate in the conflict zone.
Africa is the second largest continent in the world.
She has a European passport.
India has many languages.
Mexico is south of the United States.
The two sides finally agreed to a lasting peace.
Poland is next to Germany.
India has a population of over one billion people.
The president gave a speech on national television.
The prime minister announced new economic reforms.
The northern region has a very different climate.
Each state in the USA has its own laws.
Turkey is popular with tourists.
Ukraine is a large country in Europe.
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Aid organizations struggled to reach victims in the remote mountains.
The athletes stood proudly as their national anthem played.
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago by number of islands.
Under an autocracy, one person holds unchecked political power.
The two countries signed a bilateral defense agreement.
The census is conducted every ten years to count the population.
The civil war divided the country for a decade.
Colonialism left deep economic and cultural legacies in Africa and Asia.
Europeans colonized much of the Americas from the sixteenth century.
The wave of decolonization after 1945 reshaped the world map.
The country suffered under a dictatorship for thirty years.
The election will be held on the first Sunday of May.
The embassy district is heavily guarded by police and private security.
Oil is the country's main export.
Germany is a federal republic composed of sixteen states.
The national flag flies above government buildings.
Foreign aid accounts for twenty per cent of the national budget.
The foreign ministers of both countries met for talks.
The country's GDP grew by three per cent last year.
The pipeline route was shaped by geopolitics as much as economics.
The head of state welcomed the visiting delegation at the palace.
The nation relies heavily on the import of food.
Switzerland and Austria are landlocked countries in central Europe.
The environmental agreement was a multilateral effort involving fifty nations.
The whole nation celebrated the victory.
Non-governmental organizations play a key role in delivering aid.
A nuclear power must handle its arsenal with extreme care.
UN peacekeepers were deployed to maintain the ceasefire.
Spain and Portugal share the Iberian Peninsula.
Millions of people in the world still live in poverty.
The territory was placed under a protectorate until it could govern itself.
All member states must ratify the treaty for it to take effect.
The region voted for secession from the central government.
The EU is a supranational body with authority over member states.
The two nations signed a free trade agreement.
The government took unilateral action without consulting its allies.
Any permanent member of the Security Council can use its veto.
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International aid arrived quickly after the earthquake.
The annexation of the territory was condemned by the United Nations.
The arms race between the two superpowers threatened global security.
Both sides agreed to a temporary ceasefire.
Every citizen has the right to vote in the election.
The cold war between the superpowers shaped global politics for forty years.
India was a British colony until 1947.
The coup d'état removed the elected government in a single night.
In a democracy, citizens elect their representatives.
The Irish diaspora is spread across many English-speaking countries.
The Roman Empire stretched across much of Europe and North Africa.
When institutions collapse and the rule of law breaks down, a country risks becoming a failed state.
The new government announced a shift in foreign policy.
Military intervention is the most obvious expression of hard power.
The country gained independence in 1960.
The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy.
The concept of the nation-state emerged in Europe after the Peace of Westphalia.
Resurgent nationalism led several regions to push for independence.
The military occupation lasted five years before peace was restored.
Critics argued the country had become an oligarchy controlled by a small elite.
The parliament debated the new law for three days.
The two superpowers fought a proxy war in the region through rival factions.
Diplomatic recognition was withheld pending free and fair elections.
Cultural exports are a key instrument of soft power.
The region has historically been within Russia's sphere of influence.
The gap between wealth and poverty is widening globally.
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The two countries formed a military alliance for mutual defense.
The ambassador presented his credentials to the head of state.
The constitution guarantees freedom of speech and religion.
The military staged a coup and seized power overnight.
Each country sent a delegate to the international conference.
A demilitarized zone was established along the contested frontier.
The diplomat worked to resolve the border dispute peacefully.
Humanitarian workers delivered food and medicine to the displaced.
The partition of the country along ethnic lines caused mass displacement.
Quebec is a French-speaking province of Canada.
The alliance was driven by realpolitik rather than shared values.
The regime suppressed all dissent.
After the war, the defeated nation paid reparations to those it had harmed.
France is a republic with an elected president.
Economic sanctions were imposed on the country after the invasion.
The right to self-determination is enshrined in the UN Charter.
Separatism in the northern provinces threatened the unity of the state.
Sovereignty means a state has supreme authority over its territory.
She is a staunch ally of the reform.
World leaders met at the climate summit to discuss emissions.
The resolution reaffirmed the principle of territorial integrity.
Iran has been described as a theocracy since the 1979 revolution.
Totalitarianism demands complete submission to state authority.
The peace treaty ended the war between the two nations.
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The crisis was resolved through diplomacy.
The trade embargo crippled the economy.
Neighbors feared the empire’s expansionism.
The war was driven by imperialism.
Afternoon tea is the quintessential English tradition.
The new government repudiated the treaty.
The government issued an unequivocal denial.
Frequently asked
131 words, each with a translation and an example sentence: A1 — 19, A2 — 18, B1 — 37, B2 — 26, C1 — 24, C2 — 7.
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