Thursday, December 18, 2008

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Basic Course: Lesson 4

Translation of , paragraph x8 = Full news paper story and report.

Basic Course : Lesson 3

News paper paragraph x4

Baisc Course : Lesson 2

News paper paragraph x 2

Basic Course : Lesson 1

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e. New paper report paragraph x1

Course Content,Lesson Plan

Basic
8 lesson of eight week, 1.5 hours each
4 Assignment, 1 examination.

Objective: Able to translate a passage of short length at secondary 'O' level standard.

School Text and Newspaper Content

8 classes

Intermediate
8 lesson of eight week, 1.5 hours each
4 Assignment, 1 examination.

Objective: Able to translate a passage of long length at secondary 'A' level standard.

Advance
8 lesson of eight week, 1.5 hours each
4 Assignment, 1 examination.

Animal Farm by Geroge Owell

Objective: Able to translate a passage of short Story or excerpt/chapter at of popular classic.

Popular classic like . Animal Farm , George Orwell.

Semipro

New Popular Classic with market commercial value.

Commercial payed assignment.

Pro
Classical Text and corporate simultaneous(Verbal) translation.

Some quotes, Senior Official

"In the world of the future in the global knowledge-base economy, an individual has to be multilingual, and Bi-culture to survive".

Senior Official, Ngiam Tong Dow, "A Mandarin and Making of Public Policy".
Head, EDB, CPF, HDB.

These are some statement pose by a senior official that hold important office positions. The state is quite harsh as it says survival but not prosper. Be "biculture" and not only bi-lingual. Got know many language , not only your !st 2nd language or even third language.

Of course language here only include the formal world language, not other "language" like computer language, modern Internet/mobile message syntax, or ancient classical language.
Culture meaning East and West , modern US-Europe and Asia.

Saturday, December 13, 2008

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Hi everyone
大家好