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What if the scientific English you find intimidating is not entirely foreign to you?
If you read Chinese, you already know how to build meaning from small, visible parts. You can look at 白血病 and recognise white, blood, and disease. Yet when you meet leukemia, osteoporosis, or nephrotoxicity, you may feel that the only solution is memorisation.
You Already Know How shows you how to transfer a reading habit you already possess into scientific and academic English.
Through short tests, Chinese-English comparisons, memorable word families, and a practical four-step method, you will learn to:
- Break unfamiliar scientific words into useful components
- Build a provisional meaning without interrupting your reading
- Recognise recurring families used in medicine, science, and academic prose
- Distinguish a helpful word-part pattern from a misleading coincidence
- Know when to keep reading and when to consult a dictionary
This is not a vocabulary list, and it does not claim that every technical word can be decoded mechanically. It teaches a disciplined process: cut, predict, look for a counterexample, and check.
Along the way, you will discover why some Chinese scientific terms closely reflect the structure of Greek- and Latin-derived English, why others do not, and why the most convincing word-origin stories are sometimes false.
Written for Chinese-speaking students, researchers, medical and science professionals, English learners, and anyone who regularly encounters technical vocabulary, this book turns word analysis into a practical reading tool.
Stop treating every long English word as a wall. Learn to see the pieces, test the pattern, and keep reading.
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - What if the scientific English you find intimidating is not entirely foreign to you If you read Chinese, you already know how to build meaning from small, visible parts. You can look at ??? and recognise white, blood, and disease. Yet when you meet leukemia, osteoporosis, or nephrotoxicity, you may feel that the only solution is memorisation.You Already Know How shows you how to transfer a reading habit you already possess into scientific and academic English.Through short tests, Chinese-English comparisons, memorable word families, and a practical four-step method, you will learn to: - Break unfamiliar scientific words into useful components- Build a provisional meaning without interrupting your reading- Recognise recurring families used in medicine, science, and academic prose- Distinguish a helpful word-part pattern from a misleading coincidence- Know when to keep reading and when to consult a dictionaryThis is not a vocabulary list, and it does not claim that every technical word can be decoded mechanically. It teaches a disciplined process: cut, predict, look for a counterexample, and check.Along the way, you will discover why some Chinese scientific terms closely reflect the structure of Greek- and Latin-derived English, why others do not, and why the most convincing word-origin stories are sometimes false.Written for Chinese-speaking students, researchers, medical and science professionals, English learners, and anyone who regularly encounters technical vocabulary, this book turns word analysis into a practical reading tool.Stop treating every long English word as a wall. Learn to see the pieces, test the pattern, and keep reading. Seller Inventory # 9798187837458
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