crash course

English

crash course (plural crash courses)

(idiomatic) A quick, intense course of learning, especially one which is informal or hurried.
He got a crash course in babysitting when his sister dropped off his nephew for the afternoon.
- 2015, James Lambert, “Lexicography as a teaching tool: A Hong Kong case study”, in Lan Li, Jamie McKeown, Liming Liu, editors, Dictionaries and corpora: Innovations in reference science. Proceedings of ASIALEX 2015 Hong Kong, Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, page 145:
  Students were essentially given a ‘crash course’ in how to be a lexicographer over a number of tutorial classes, beginning with lexicographical data collection.

quick, intense course

Arabic: حَلَقَة دِرَاسِيَّة مُكَثِّفَة f (ḥalaqa dirāsiyya mukaṯṯifa)
Catalan: curs intensiu (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 速成班 (zh) (sùchéngbān)
Danish: lynkursus n
Dutch: crashcourse m, snelcursus (nl) m, stoomcursus (nl) m
Finnish: pikakurssi
French: cours intensif m, formation courte f, formation accélérée f
German: Schnellkurs (de) m, Intensivkurs (de) m, Crashkurs (de) m
Hungarian: gyorstalpaló (hu)
Italian: corso accelerato
Japanese: 短期集中コース (tanki shūchū kōsu)
Korean: 속성반 (sokseongban), 단기집중코스 (dan'gi jipjung koseu)
Norwegian: lynkurs
Persian: ^{(please verify)} دوره سریع - دوره متمرکز (منظور دوره آموزشی سریع یا متمرکز است)
Polish: kurs na zderzenie m, kurs błyskawiczny m
Russian: уско́ренный курс m (uskórennyj kurs), интенси́вный курс m (intensívnyj kurs) (often used in plural with the same meaning)
Spanish: curso intensivo m
Swedish: intensivkurs c, snabbkurs c
Turkish: hızlandırılmış kurs

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