This handy, convenient volume is the ideal dictionary for beginning students and travelers. Featuring the essential vocabulary appropriate to beginning and lower intermediate students, the Pocket Tagalog Dictionary covers all the words needed for the everyday situations encountered by travelers.
The author hails from the Philippines. Before migrating to Australia, he worked with the National Historical Institute of the Philippines for more than 20 years as historical translator and researcher and taught history at the Lyceum of the Philippines. He retired in 2007 as an archivist with the City of Sydney Archives, Sydney, Australia. He holds an MA in Asian Studies and a Graduate Diploma in Archives Administration (University of New South Wales), a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum Studies (Sydney University), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Spanish Major (Colegio de San Juan de Letran). He completed his undergraduate studies (BA in Political Science and BS in Foreign Service) in the Philippines. He has published articles and books on history, cultural conservation and heraldry, both in the Philippines and Australia.
