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From your writing, it seems you have a pretty good grasp of English. Academic English would not be as difficult. Unless you are taking a technical course and would be using technical English. That would become part of your learning process. In time, you will get the hang of it.

It's well for you have such a good opporunity to improve yourself. You can deal with common live and ordinary conversation in english, it's good, you can learn such so professional english soon, just be patient and more hard-working. I think you can get resources what you want from library and bookstore, you have to read a professional book in one field and grasp the academic words in this professional field first. Doing plenty reading and writing can be helpful. But i think english is just a language, the most important thing is what you learned from an academic, language is just a tool.

Thing will change when you finally get to Singapore. There, most people specks English(of course they speak Chinese too). After studying for several months, you will get used to it. I am also a Chinese, and one of my classmate go to Canada for further studies. He went their for just a few months, now he can deal with his studies properly. As for the problem of English learning resource, I recommend you Amazon, you must know that.You may find some books in English there.

As for those learning resources which you concern,I think it is not hard to get,nowadays there are many university in China teaching their course all in English especially in Accounting,so you borrow those books from university students all you can buy those books in bookstore near university. By the way,I very envy you that you have such a good opportunity to go to singapore and learn English,pls don't worry after several months you will have no obstacle in academic English.

As for me i went through a similar experience. I came form an arabic medium school. when i went for university to india which was in english, i was certain of my conversation skills but afraid of the academic. I had to improve my reading which was the salutation to most of my problems. You will notice an accent you aren't familiar with, don't be depressed. In my first class i couldn't grasp what are they saying. I even regret going there for study. patient,perseverance and a lot of reading that's what you need. good luck.

I am not sure if you'll agree with me but the essence of mathematics, biology and geography, chemistry won't really change no matter what the language is. I mean even in Chinese Hydrogen will always have 1 proton. You'll just have to learn while studying and reading and talking in the world of english academe. If you can find mentor who is good in both Chinese and English, you'll be doing good.

The best way to improve any language skill, including your native tongue, is by reading. I can't suggest any web sites, but if you are near a good library, try there for books on the subjects you will be doing. Otherwise, you will have to wait till you get to Singapore and get loose in the library at your college. Always read more than they demand, it gains you a far better understanding of both the subject and the language. Lash