![]() Murray said of the error-ridden book: "It shows a lack of concern for consumers, their brand name, and their partner Sanrio." However, over two months later, she has yet to receive a response from any of these individuals. In January, Murray sent the PDF to two local educators and an official at the Ministry of Education (MOE). ![]() Murray told Taiwan News that she was shocked at what she described as a "poor product that doesn't deserve to represent the Made-in-Taiwan brand." She compiled a 47-page PDF annotating many of the more blatant errors, discovering another 10 mistakes in the process, bringing the total number of typos in the dictionary to at least 70. In January, he shared his findings with Johanne Murray, who is a lecturer in the Department of English at Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages and PhD candidate of business management at National Sun Yat-sen University. Instead, he advised the company to recall the dictionaries because it's "not just embarrassing for you, but for Taiwan in general, and also for Taiwan's education system." He added that it "flies in the face of the government's Bilingual 2030 campaign."Ĭompany representatives said they would get back to him in a week or so, but failed to do so. Smith was not satisfied with this response. He said he was initially offered a refund for the NT$320 (US$10.50) cost of the dictionary that his student's secretary bought from Kinokuniya. Smith said that after reading through the dictionary twice, he found over 60 "egregious errors." In October last year, he contacted the publisher and notified them of the typos. Under the "Revision Editor" notes in the front of the book, the word "Language" is misspelled as "Languagc." Smith observed that there are dated usages not appropriate for children, such as references to smoking. ![]() The example sentence for "birthday" read "Happy birghday." The word "imagine" was listed as a verb but has the letter "n" for noun in English. For instance, the entry for "rice" was spelled "rest." Smith noticed mistakes in the dictionary, including typos, parts of speech, and example sentences. (世一文化事業股份有限公司) and is the most recent edition, printed in June 2020. The dictionary, titled "Children's Illustrated Dictionary" (Hello Kitty 兒童英漢辭典) is printed by ACME Cultural Enterprise Co.
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