{"id":681,"date":"2007-04-03T14:41:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T06:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/holy-hippos-batman-taiwan-expands-its-list-of-english-words-for-students\/"},"modified":"2018-08-22T16:58:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T08:58:43","slug":"holy-hippos-batman-taiwan-expands-its-list-of-english-words-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/holy-hippos-batman-taiwan-expands-its-list-of-english-words-for-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy hippos, Batman! &#8212; Taiwan expands its list of English words for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s Ministry of Education has dipped into pop culture for some of its additions to the list of English words that elementary and junior high students are expected to learn. Among the new additions are &#8220;Batman&#8221; and &#8220;Spiderman.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Yes, students will be tested on these &#8212; but not until 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Three professors and three junior high English teachers compiled the new list of two hundred basic words; this will be added to the <a href=\"http:\/\/media.tyc.edu.tw\/files\/1000words\/%B3%CC%B0%F2%A5%BB%A4@%A4d%A6r%B5%FC.htm\">existing list of one thousand words<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the other new additions: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bat<\/li>\n<li>bug (computer)<\/li>\n<li>Easter<\/li>\n<li>French fries<\/li>\n<li>gate (airport)<\/li>\n<li>guy<\/li>\n<li>Halloween<\/li>\n<li>hippo<\/li>\n<li>kangaroo<\/li>\n<li>koala<\/li>\n<li>marker<\/li>\n<li>MRT (the mass rapid transit systems of Taipei and Gaoxiong)<\/li>\n<li>PIN (personal identification number)<\/li>\n<li>scooter<\/li>\n<li>slim<\/li>\n<li>spider<\/li>\n<li>surf<\/li>\n<li>temple<\/li>\n<li>T-shirt<\/li>\n<li>yummy<\/li>\n<li>zebra<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chinapost.com.tw\/newinstall\/archives\/taiwan\/200743\/106168.htm\">MOE adds slang, pop culture terms to junior high basic exams<\/a>, <em>China Post<\/em>, April 3, 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yam.com\/chinatimes\/society\/200704\/20070402091940.html\"><span class=\"py\">MRT yummy Batman gu&#243;zh&#333;ng, gu&#243;xi&#462;o d&#333;u de hu&#236; <\/span><\/a> (MRT yummy Batman&#22283;&#20013;&#23567;&#37117;&#24471;&#26371;), <em>China Times<\/em>, April 3, 2007<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan&#8217;s Ministry of Education has dipped into pop culture for some of its additions to the list of English words that elementary and junior high students are expected to learn. Among the new additions are &#8220;Batman&#8221; and &#8220;Spiderman.&#8221; Yes, students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/holy-hippos-batman-taiwan-expands-its-list-of-english-words-for-students\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,28,55,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-languages","category-literacy","category-taiwan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7829,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/7829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}