trisha2766 Posted January 7, 2015 at 06:31 PM Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 at 06:31 PM Does anyone know of books or other resources for learning Chinese, especially vocabulary related to agricultural science / farming? Or even plant science? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bande Posted January 7, 2015 at 09:00 PM Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 at 09:00 PM While I haven't looked for plant science, I have looked for similar types of books and there isn't much focused on chinese learners who speak English. For options, you can try to find a college textbook, which is easier in China. Sometimes they will have textbooks that are a translation of an English textbook and provide both languages. I found one such food science book once. A third option is to do machine translation of Baidu baike articles in your chosen area of interest. Still, any of these is going to involve a hard slog through some specialist vocabulary, so you might want to have a small manageable anki goal like 5 words a day related to plant science that you get from reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted January 7, 2015 at 09:07 PM Report Share Posted January 7, 2015 at 09:07 PM Found this! Designed for Chinese folk studying English, but might be the best you can do. This, same problem. Oh, and an E>C dictionary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trisha2766 Posted January 8, 2015 at 03:58 AM Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 at 03:58 AM Thanks! They have a table of contents in English, and some of it is what I am looking for. But they are probably over my head though. Maybe I'll first try just looking up relevant vocabulary and hopefully find some sample sentences. Maybe at some point in the future, when my Chinese is a little better, I'll check into getting one of those books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted January 8, 2015 at 04:33 PM Report Share Posted January 8, 2015 at 04:33 PM I see you've already noticed an Elementary Course in Scientific Chinese. Might be some more ideas here, but it's a few years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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