Pharmaceutical English is a compulsory course for the students of pharmacy. Based on the public English and professional courses of pharmacy, the main idea of pharmaceutical English is to train the student on reading and understanding of pharmacy-based English, to master the necessary terms and the basis of verbal comunication (speaking and writing). The content of this course consists of chemistry, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry and pharmaceutical regulations. Pharmaceutical terms and literatures are presented. The objective of this course is to make the students understand the characteristics of professional English by studying professional terms and articles, to train the students for the use of English by reading, translating, writing, listening and speaking of terms and articles of chemistry, medicinal chemistry, biochemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical analysis, pharmacognosy, phytochemistry and pharmaceutical regulations. By the end of this course, the students should be able to study new professional knowledge and communicate with others in English.