crash course

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

crash course (plural crash courses)

1. (idiomatic) A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.

   He got a crash course in babysitting when his sister dropped off his nephew for the afternoon.

   • 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 145:

     Students were essentially given a ‘crash course’ in how to be a lexicographer over a number of tutorial classes, beginning with lexicographical data collection.

Translations

quick, intense course

• Arabic: حَلَقَة دِرَاسِيَّة مُكَثِّفَة f (ḥalaqa dirāsiyya mukaṯṯifa)
• Catalan: curs intensiu (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 速成班 (zh) (sùchéngbān)

• Danish: lynkursus n
• Dutch: crashcourse m, snelcursus (nl) m, stoomcursus (nl) m
• Finnish: pikakurssi
• French: cours intensif m, formation courte f, formation accélérée f
• German: Schnellkurs (de) m, Intensivkurs (de) m, Crashkurs (de) m
• Hungarian: gyorstalpaló (hu)
• Italian: corso accelerato
• Japanese: 短期集中コース (tanki shūchū kōsu)
• Korean: 속성반 (sokseongban), 단기집중코스 (dan'gi jipjung koseu)
• Norwegian: lynkurs
• Persian: ^{(please verify)} دوره سریع - دوره متمرکز (منظور دوره آموزشی سریع یا متمرکز است)
• Polish: kurs na zderzenie m, kurs błyskawiczny m
• Russian: уско́ренный курс m (uskórennyj kurs), интенси́вный курс m (intensívnyj kurs) (often used in plural with the same meaning)
• Spanish: curso intensivo m
• Swedish: intensivkurs c, snabbkurs c
• Turkish: hızlandırılmış kurs