Half-dual English-Chinese dictionary

Author: Shanghai Ci Shu Chu Ban She
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Reduces reliance on native language, cultivates English thinking habits; provides a guided learning ladder, pointing out the use of original English dictionaries; offers natural English explanations to help accurately understand word meanings; organizes vocabulary with word families for systematic memorization. The Semi-Bilingual English-Chinese Dictionary belongs to a new type of dictionary, a crystallization of the latest research achievements in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and foreign language teaching methods. Its main feature lies in using the original English dictionary as the core component, retaining the original dictionary's definitions, grammar, vocabulary, pragmatics, examples, derivative word formation, and idiomatic phrases, while also translating the English definitions into Chinese. The primary difference between it and general English-Chinese dictionaries is that it provides English definitions for each sense; the difference from English-Chinese bilingual dictionaries is that it only translates the English definitions into Chinese, leaving other content untranslated. Hence, it is called "semi-bilingual." This type of dictionary was pioneered by Israel's Kernerman Semi-Bilingual Dictionaries company, where the English-Hebrew semi-bilingual dictionaries have been designated as reference dictionaries for English proficiency exams at all levels in Israel by the Ministry of Education and Culture. The company has also collaborated with many renowned publishing institutions worldwide to publish dozens of semi-bilingual dictionaries paired with English translations in French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic, Japanese, Portuguese, Greek, Italian, Korean, Thai, Norwegian, Swedish, and other languages. The Kernerman Semi-Bilingual Dictionaries company, in partnership with us, has developed an English learning dictionary for Chinese readers—The Semi-Bilingual English-Chinese Dictionary. It is suitable for readers with high school-level or higher English proficiency.