Classes in Chinese
Since 课 is used to describe classes or lessons in Chinese, can it be used to name courses in school? For example, if I want to describe my Econimics class could I say 经济学课?
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Yes! For instance, "Math class" can be translated as 数学课. However, when it comes to a long class name with three or more characters, we sometimes ignore “学” and just simply add "课" after the subject, like "经济课". But don't worry, 经济学课 is totally correct!
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Hi Nicole, you could totally say that! But you might want to add '程' behind '课’ in '经济学课’. So it becomes '经济学课程'. Although my major is not economics, I know that economics is a general and generic term. '课程' sounds broad and general, and ‘课’ is commonly used to describe small classes or branches of a major.
I just checked my timetable. I don't see '课' in it. We have '英语阅读’,‘大学文科数学’, '中国近代史’... That's because '课' is often left out in these course names. But you could totally say those course with '课' , for example, '我们今天上午有英语阅读课’ or '大学文科数学课真的好难啊'.
Hope it helps. :)
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yeah,that's ok.we do use like that.
For example,今天下午我要去上英语课。
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