Concise English-Tagalog Dictionary

By José Villa and Jose Villa Panganiban

Book Overview

This is a convenient and travel-sized English to Tagalog Dictionary Over ten million Filipinos speak Tagalog, the official language of the Philippines. This dictionary addresses the growing need for a concise, reliable, and inexpensive English-Tagalog dictionary. It is ideal for teachers, students, businesspeople, travelers, and others who are interested in studying Tagalog. The key to understanding the Tagalog language is a thorough familiarity with the stresses, glottal vowels, and basic vocabulary of the language, all of which are treated in this book. Pronunciation guidelines were determined by the Institute of National Language, which based its preference on standard Manila dialect. Used in conjunction with Tagalog for Beginners or Elementary Tagalog , also published by Tuttle Publishing, this dictionary is an indispensable tool for those learning Tagalog or traveling to the Philippines. Over 6,000 practical entries. Perfect for learning everyday vocabulary. Uses pronunciation guidelines from the Institute of National Language in the Philippines. Ideal for teachers, students and travelers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804819629
• ISBN13: 9780804819626
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Dated, but useful

This dictionary is specifically intended for beginning students, it contains a limited vocabulary(I guess about 7000-8000) English entries, each entry is given from 1 to 4-5 Tagalog equivalents, different meanings of English entry words are shown by synonyms, eg. english_entry - (english_synonym1) tagalog_meaning1, (english_synonym2) tagalog_meaning2, (english_synonym3) tagalog_meaning3 etc. Accent place and glottal stops - an important feature of Tagalog - is clearly shown. The list of affixes appears to be very useful.In short introduction the author relates the troubled circumstances of the WWII in whgich this short dictionary was born.Of course the dictionary is dated, however since it deals only with the very basics of the language which change but very little with the time, it can be quite useful for the contemporary student.