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Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary

Tagalog-English English-Tagalog (over 20,000 entries)
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Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary by Joi Barrios, Nenita Pambid Domingo, and Romulo Baquiran, JR serves as a practical educational resource for learners and speakers of Tagalog. Offering clear definitions, pronunciation guides, and usage examples, this dictionary is an essential tool for mastering everyday vocabulary in both English and Tagalog. It provides a solid foundation for effective communication, making it invaluable for language learners and educators alike.
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The Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary gives you the most complete and up-to-date translations from English to Tagalog/Filipino and is the most current dictionary available today.

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The Tuttle Concise Tagalog Dictionary gives you the most complete and up-to-date translations from English to Tagalog/Filipino and is the most current dictionary available today.

Designed primarily for English speakers, it can also be used by Tagalog speakers who are learning English. The dictionary is bidirectional with over 20,000 entries covering the everyday vocabulary used in all educational, work-related, and tourist situations.

For each entry, in addition to giving all useful definitions, information is provided on the part of speech, common collocations, and the pronunciation of the word. An introduction at the front offers a guide to pronunciation, as well as other grammar pointers and explanations.

For ease of use, this dictionary is divided into two parts: Tagalog-English and English-Tagalog.

Key highlights of this Tagalog dictionary are:

  • Over 20,000 entries covering everyday words used in educational, work-related, and tourist situations.
  • Extensive information on parts of speech, common collocations, and the pronunciation of each word.
  • A helpful introduction providing a guide to pronunciation and many other Tagalog grammar pointers and explanations.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780804839143

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 September 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Tuttle Publishing

Illustration: over 20,000 entries

Contributors:

  • Assisted by Teresita Raval

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 102.0mm

Height: 152.0mm

Weight: 700g

Pages: 608

About the Author

Joi Barrios has a Ph.D. in Filipino (Philippine Literature) and is currently teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of several books, among them Tagalog for Beginners and Intermediate Tagalog. Nenita Pambid Domingo is the head of the Filipino Program in the South and Southeast Asian Languages and Cultures Program at the University of California, Los Angeles and a lecturer in the Asian Languages and Cultures Department there. She has been a Government Exchange Professor at Peking University, teaching all levels of Filipino language, and has taught Filipino language, literature, and culture at University of the Philippines UP (Quezon City and Manila), Loyola Marymount University, California at Long Beach, and the University of Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles.

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