Siew Imm Tan

Penang Hokkien-English Dictionary

With an English-Penang Hokkien Glossary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A user-friendly lexicon for both native speakers and learners of the Penang Hokkien language, this dictionary lists Hokkien words and terms, and their definitions in English, as well as literal translations, culture-specific terms and common phrases. It is the first comprehensively dictionary of Penang Hokkien and carries over 12,000 entries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Mare Nostrum
• Seitenzahl: 526
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789671369715
• ISBN-10: 9671369715
• Artikelnr.: 63937464

Autorenporträt

Tan Siew Imm was born and bred in Penang and is a native speaker of Penang Hokkien. She studied at Convent Light Street and St Xavier's Institution, and later pursued her education at Universiti Malaya (UM), where she obtained her B.A. (Hons) in English Literature, Dip. Ed. (TESL) and M.A. (Applied Linguistics). She has been a reporter (with a major English daily), a tutor with UM's Department of English, a teacher at secondary schools, an invigilator for Malaysia's national examinations, and an English Editor with a leading book publisher. She also co-authored an Academic English workbook, Write Now! (first and second editions). At Sunway University, she taught academic reading and writing to degree and diploma undergraduates majoring in Business, Hospitality and Psychology, and was also a judge in the university's Oxbridge essay-writing and public-speaking competitions. Now retired, she is working on a Penang Hokkien picture dictionary.