Pilipino-English/English-Pilipino Phrasebook and Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary) [Paperback]

Raymond Barrager (Editor), Jesusa V. Salvador (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Hippocrene Concise Dictionary | Publication Date: July 1996

The official language of the Philippines, based on Tagalog. Combining the benefits of both a dictionary and phrasebook, this pocketsize volume provides the student or traveller with a basis for simple conversation. The dictionary supplies the necessary words to get around, while the phrasebook offers sections ranging from accommodations to colloquial expressions. A brief description of Pilipino grammar is also provided.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Tagalog

About the Author

Raymond P Barrager and Jesusa V Salvador

Product Details

• Paperback: 186 pages
• Publisher: Hippocrene Books (July 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781804515
• ISBN-13: 978-0781804516
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 4.3 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #967,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #24 in Books > Education & Reference > Dictionaries & Thesauruses > Foreign Language > Tagalog
  • #54 in Books > Travel > Asia > Philippines

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginning tagalog speakers, February 8, 1999

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This review is from: Pilipino-English/English-Pilipino Phrasebook and Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary) (Paperback)

Good , easy book for beginning tagalog speakers and readers.it helped me a lot..

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars too small, not enough words, March 7, 1999

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This review is from: Pilipino-English/English-Pilipino Phrasebook and Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary) (Paperback)

There are so many mistakes in the grammar section and not enough words. I bought this for my friend who was going to the Philippines but had I known how incomplete it was, I would have just given him a real dictionary instead.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good quick reference, but don't expect depth, July 4, 2001

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This review is from: Pilipino-English/English-Pilipino Phrasebook and Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary) (Paperback)

This little book has enough phrases to enable an absolute beginner to get around. There is a truly basics-only grammar section and many categories of phrases that are really quite useful, and it is very compact, so it is easy to carry around, and thus likely to actually be used.

However, its conciseness is also its greatest limitation. The "dictionaries" (glossaries) are much too small to be of practical use. The "basic grammar" sections, likewise, are so abbreviated that they leave more questions than they answer. Nevertheless, you can get the gist of how the language is constructed.

This is definitely NOT a Tagalog textbook; to try to use it as such would be very frustrating. But it is a fine on-the-street, quick reference for the novice traveler, restaurant goer, shopper, or lover, etc.; just enough for the quick, basic phrases needed to get along, but not so much as to overwhelm or weigh you down.