English
Noun
cram school (plural cram schools)
- (education) A specialized school that trains students to meet particular goals, most commonly to pass the entrance examinations of high schools or universities.
2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), pages 139-140:Most of my classmates went to a cram school in order to get ready for the high school entrance exams that you take in the second half of ninth grade.
Translations
specialised school
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 補習社 / 补习社 (bou2 zaap6 se5)
- Mandarin: 補習班 / 补习班 (zh) (bǔxíbān), 輔導班 / 辅导班 (zh)
- Finnish: valmennuskurssi (fi)
- French: classe préparatoire (fr) f, prépa (fr) f (colloquial)
- German: Paukschule f
- Greek: φροντιστήριο (el) n (frontistírio)
- Indonesian: bimbel (id)
- Japanese: 塾 (ja) (じゅく, juku), 学習塾 (ja) (がくしゅうじゅく, gakushū juku), 予備校 (ja) (yobikō)
- Korean: 학원(學院) (ko) (hagwon)
- Polish: kursy m pl
- Portuguese: cursinho (pt) m
- Russian: подготови́тельные ку́рсы m pl (podgotovítelʹnyje kúrsy), ку́рсы (ru) m pl (kúrsy)
- Spanish: clases particulares f pl, cursos de nivelación m pl (Mexico), escuela intensiva f, escuela preparatoria f
- Thai: โรงเรียนกวดวิชา (roong rian gùat wí-chaa)
- Turkish: dershane (tr)
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