You know how in English we abbreviate university names? Like UCLA is short for "University of California Los Angeles"? And NYU is short for "New York University"? We do this, clearly, by grabbing the first letter of each word in the long-form name and using them to create a new, shorter word. So in a language with no letters, like Chinese, how do abbreviations work? 

Well, you take a long title and you select a couple of key characters, and use those as the abbreviation. Most of the popular universities in China have commonly understood abbreviations, two of which appear in this passage:

1) 北大 - This is the shortened version of <strong>北</strong>京<strong>大</strong>学, "Beijing University". 
2) 师大 - This is the abbreviation for 北京<strong>师</strong>范<strong>大</strong>学, "Beijing Normal University". 

There are many others:

北语 - <strong>北</strong>京<strong>语</strong>言大学 - Beijing Language University
人大 - 北京<strong>人</strong>民<strong>大</strong>学 - Beijing People's University

Etc. etc. 

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1） 王先生是<strong>北大</strong>的老教师，一九三八年五月二十四号出生，　今年五十八岁。　今天是他的生日。　他是一位非常有经验的法语老师。这个学期他教大三的学生现代法语语法。

2） 王先生的一位老朋友是老年大学的老师，　他经常在这个大学教日语。

4） 他的一个学生在<strong>师大</strong>工作。　他有汉语书，法语书和日语书。　他天天教留学生现代汉语。现在他有五个男学生，八个女学生。

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1) Mr. Wang is an old teacher at Beijing University. He was born May 24, 1938, he's 58 this year. Today is his birthday. He is a French teacher with a lot of experience. This semester he is teaching modern French grammar to 3rd year students. 

2) One of Mr. Wang's friends is an old university teacher, he often teaches Japanese at this university. 

3) One of his students works at Beijing Normal University. He has Chinese books, French book and Japanese books. Every day he teaches foreign students modern Chinese. Right now he has 5 male students and 8 female students. 

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