Tuesday, January 22, 2008

新生字典 [Campus Dictionary for New Overseas Students]

[Campus Dictionary for New Overseas Students] 新生字典 contains a list of English Terms commonly used in Singapore with definitions and annotations extracted from 《华新网》http://www.huasing.org (20/4/2001):

http://www.zaobao.com/edu/pages/campusdict200401.html

The list only have less than 30 entries. Even though it is not arranged in any order, it is easy to browse and use as a quick reference.

It serves as a handy page for new overseas students from China who like to learn the colloquial terms in English.

For English speaker readers who like to pick up some Chinese terms, just look up the English terms and read the definition(s) in Chinese. You will learn a lot of commonly used Singapore terms in Chinese. For examples:

MOE 教育部 Ministry of Education
NUS 新加坡国立大学 National University of Singapore
NTU 南洋理工大学 Nanyang Technological University
NIE 国立教育学院 National Institute of Education (属于NTU

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