English as Foreign Language

This handbook is a collection of 101 carefully selected pairs of Chinese-English proverbs similar or relevant in meaning. Each pair is annotated and supplied with practical examples facilitating the learner's memorization of the proverbs. Relevant and derivative words are provided for learning in categorization. All proverbs are illustrated with fun pictures. The accompanied MP3-CD is provided for free.

This handy companion is particularly suitable for Chinese-speaking children who want to learn English. The dictionary includes more than 800 pages, but still is very compact.  It has around 3000 entries in both the English-Chinese and the Chinese-English part. This dictionary has a lot of small color illustrations and the terms are clearly illustrated by example sentences. The first part - the English-Chinese part and the second part, the Chinese-English part, come without Hanyu Pinyin, only simplified Chinese and English are given.

The main part includes the Chinese-English dictionary of new expressions and phrases. However, without specifying Hanyu Pinyin, the keywords are listed in simplified Chinese and the English translation. Imn the appendix there is a variety of attachments that can be very useful for Sino-English translation. Among other things, there are attachments from the areas of geography, countries, political names, well-known companies, etc.

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Oxford Elementary Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary [4th Edition]

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