target language
Language being learned
Target language is the language being learned or translated into.
A French student studying English has English as their target language.
A translator working from Spanish to German has German as the target language.
In programming, target language refers to the output language of a compiler—the code it produces rather than the code fed into it.
- localizationAdapting for specific markets
- native speakerOne who grew up speaking it
- translationConverting between languages
- word for wordExactly as spoken
- lost in translationMeaning altered between languages
bilingualism · lexicon · interpretation · cultural adaptation · equivalence · dubbing · subtitling · vocabulary · lingua franca · code-switching · writing · destination · fluency · output · acquisition · source text · grammar · intelligibility
- language learningvocabulary lists, lessons, acquisition, basic vocabulary, grammar books
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
- language educationbilingual, biliteracy, immersion, literacy skills, reading
- language immersiontotal immersion, immersion school, submersion, bilingual education, bilingual school
- translation termstranslation, literal translation, free translation, word-for-word, source text
- Translation Industrytranslator, interpreter, proofreader, editor, localization
target languagenative language
First-acquired mode of speech
source language · first language · mother tongue · L1 · native tongue
target, language, languages, targets, targeted, targeting, untargeted, multilanguage