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Tagalog-English/English-Tagalog Standard Dictionary (Hippocrene Standard Dictionaries) Reprint Edition

by Carl Rubino (Author), Maria Gracia Tan Llenado (Author)

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A comprehensive guide to Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines-- now revised and updated!

Tagalog, also called Pilipino, is a national language of the Philippines. It is spoken by over 35 million people worldwide.

Expanded and completely updated, this best-selling reference is designed for students of Tagalog and native Tagalog speakers in need of a bilingual dictionary.

20,000 entries
Entries include idiomatic expressions, slang, loan words and derivations
Detailed outline of Tagalog grammar
Appendices include useful vocabulary, menu terms and cultural references

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0781809606
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978-0781809603
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Hippocrene Books
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November 1, 2002
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Dr. Carl Rubino initiated the Philippine language program at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he taught both Tagalog and Ilocano. With a background in typology, he has lectured on Philippine linguistics on four continents. He currently lives in Washington D.C. where he is a computational linguist specializing in natural language processing and machine translation.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hippocrene Books; Reprint edition (November 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 424 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0781809606
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0781809603
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.42 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 1.25 x 8.25 inches

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Norman Oro UCLA 93

Ang galing ni Carl Rubino

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2013

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Great dictionary. Entertaining at points and easy to follow. I haven't spoken Filipino/Tagalog since I was a little boy and I hope to reacquaint myself with this great language in 2014. I think this book will be extremely useful for that.

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Potential buyers should know it helps to have at least some familiarity with Tagalog when using this dictionary. For example, the translation for "opo" is "yes sir", which is right. However, someone brand-new to the language should know that it could also mean, "yes, ma'am". The word "po" and most of the pronouns in Tagalog aren't gender-specific. To me, this is a really minor point considering how useful and easy to use this dictionary is. Hence, five stars.

Update August 19, 2019: I now speak a fair amount of Tagalog. This dictionary was and is really useful. However, I think it'd be helpful to supplement this with Google searches because languages of course do change. Also, there may be regional variations. For example, magtaka is defined in this dictionary as to be surprised; however, growing up (I grew up in the US, but my parents spoke Tagalog at home), magtaka meant more like to wonder (about something) (eg, Nagtaka siya kung uulan). We generally used magulat for to be surprised (eg, Nagulat siya kasi umulan).

Update October 13, 2019: I recently lost my Tagalog-English/English-Tagalog dictionary to water damage. I'm getting another one as an ebook so I don't have to worry about wear-and-tear or accidents, but unfortunately Carl Rubino's dictionary isn't available on Kindle. Despite some minor flaws, it's a really good dictionary.

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Alice Roddy

vital companion to Pimsler and Rosetta Stone

Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2013

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I'm learning Pili
pino using both the Pimsler and Rosetta Stone systems. This dictionary at least partially fills gaps. F'rinstance, many times I want to check what I have heard on the discs. Seeing what I have heard helps me greatly. I appreciate the notes on grammar and orthography.

The choice of type face and use of bold type is clear and attractive.

My use of the book is currently as superficial as my knowledge of Pilipino but I am confident that my use of this dictionary will increase along with my knowledge.

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J. Netherton

A Help But Not a Solution

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2008

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This is a pretty good dictionary most of the time. I am trying to learn conversational Tagalog and generally find more than half the words I look up. For complete novices like me, a book teaching the language is also requisite. Language oddities like prefixes, suffixes, and in-the-middle-of-the-word fixes make simple word lookup something of a treasure hunt without knowledge of basic language structure. For conversation, I would also recommend supplementing this dictionary with a book that is heavy on slang and colloquial usage. A plus for the dictionary is the organized list of related words, such as food types, professions, body parts, etc.

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Dewy Marble

It’s good!

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2019

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Bought this for my Aunt when she moved here from the Philippines because she wanted to learn how to read and speak English better. So far she said it’s good, but I don’t think she’s that far into the book yet because she hasn’t said much else in English.

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wcp

This dictionary could be much better

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2016

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The beginning of this book, that provides much information about syntax, grammar, etc., is good. The section that translates English words into Tagalog words is good. The appendix is good, as it provides supplementary vocabulary lists for travelers. The section providing Tagalog words and their English meanings is awful. I looked at Filipino news sites and simply could not find many of the Tagalog words from news stories in this dictionary. I also asked a few Filipinos about some of the Tagalog words in the dictionary and they disagreed with some of the definitions provided (and I did this in writing). I was expecting to find meanings to Tagalog words that are used in news websites and in casual conversation and I have been sometimes very disappointed.

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2010

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We received the tagalog series from Rosetta Stone because our daughter-in-law is Filipino and tagalog is her native language. Since she is learning English before she gets here in the United States we thought it would be a nice suprise if we would learn her language. Since receiving the series from amazon we have been pleasantly surprised on how well the program works. It will take about 7 months for her to get here to the states so will have plenty of time to get the language down. Thanks!

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ScriptReady

excellent

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2014

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My native speaking friends inform me that there is no official dictionary yet since the Tagalog language itself is relatively new and still very much evolving, but this gives an excellent rendering of most words and is extensive. For those just starting, be aware that the Filipino verbs are conjugated by adding to them - hence, you'll only see the base words listed (as in an English dictionary), but if you don't know thhe root word, you'll get frustrated until you learn more vocabulary

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Mick

A Lot of Non-essential Information

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2004

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Since my fiancee is a Filipina I wanted to learn some of her native language. But not this much!

Who cares that "liyok" means "a movement of water in the stomach when shaken" or "bulingbuling" is the "custom of throwing water on people on the feast of St. John the Baptist"?

This foreign dictionary has to be one of the most useless tools I have seen to help in learning a language. If I could have given it 0 stars, I would have.

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Micha

Guter Übersetzer für den Preis

Reviewed in Germany on April 27, 2023

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Bin froh dieses Exemplar bestellt zu haben.
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Pat Ty

Much better dictionary than the ones I’ve found in the philippines

Reviewed in Canada on April 16, 2019

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My anglophone boyfriend enjoyed learning words from this dictionary. It also includes words that are deep Tagalog.

Robert Pontnau

Complet et très actuel

Reviewed in France on January 16, 2013

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J'apprends le tagalog depuis 6 mois . Ce dictionnaire est très complet, indique les accents et offre une grammaire complète. Excellent. Jusqu'à présent j'ai dû utiliser Periplus Pocket lacunaire et sans accentuation et Tagalog English/English-Tagalog de Charles Nigg, sans accentuation et en partie obsolète, c'est une réimpression de 1903 à l'orthographe modernisée. Je conseille à tout apprenant du tagalog d'éviter les deux autres dictionnaires. Le dictionnaire de poche peut aider à la rigueur dans la rue par son petit format malgré ses lacunes.

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さすらい

語根で引ける

Reviewed in Japan on August 27, 2015

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タガログ語（フィリピン語）の辞書は、いろいろな単語集や簡易辞書を試しましたが、やはり語根引きでないと使えません。この辞書は、語根引きで語彙数もじゅうぶんです。
重さは持ち運びがギリギリできる程度ですが、もう少し軽くできたらいいのですが。軽くするためにタガ→英と、英→タガを分割してくれてもいいかも知れません。

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AJ

Exceedingly useful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2009

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This is less a simple dictionary and more an inclusive book of Tagalog that also happens to be a first class dictionary. What I mean by that is this: as well as the dictionary (more heavily-weighted towards Tagalog-English than English-Tagalog, but that's great for my purposes), this work also contains a nicely detailed section on Tagalog grammar. It has a coda that includes songs and poems in Tagalog, and a section on Tagalog morphology, which is, of course, famously complex. On top of that, there is even a brief outline of Baybayin, the pre-Hispanic Tagalog writing system. What more could you ask for?

There are very few flaws, if any, although occasionally looking up the odd Tagalog word has been problematic, due to the obvious morphological issues. My purpose in buying this text, and in learning Tagalog, is this: I speak quite reasonable Indonesian/Malay, and I find it a wonderfully simple and interesting language. It is quite closely related to Tagalog, and to the Philippine languages. Although it displays a much reduced grammatical complexity as compared to Tagalog, Indonesian also has a relatively large number of verbal affixes, some of which are potentially unnecessary. My question when learning Indonesian was, where did these affixes come from, and why are they there, when the vast majority of the meaning is in the root of the verb? To find the answer, I decided to look a more morphologically complex language where the affixes add a large degree of meaning - in terms of mood, number and so on. So far, it's been an interesting academic voyage through the Austronesian languages, and using this dictionary, with primary texts, has brought me a very large step closer to my aim.

I am also very interested in the aboriginal languages of Taiwan, and when I was living there, I picked up a number of books on two native languages (Seediq and Paiwan), the books being in Chinese. My Chinese is quite good, but trying to understand the western Austronesian focus system (unique in the world's languages) is difficult even in English, and it is exceedingly hard to find English language materials dealing with the particular languages I wanted to learn. In order to gain a good working understanding of the Austronesian system, if not the particulars of the Formosan languages, I thought Tagalog would be a good idea, and so it is proving to be. The grammar section of this dictionary is good enough for this purpose, and that should tell you how good it is generally.

And of course, Tagalog is a useful language by itself, and another aim of mine is to be able to read newspapers, encyclopedias or novels in it. This is why I say that this is more like a handbook of Tagalog than a simple dictionary: if you had only the aim of studying Tagalog for a job, or to go on holiday, then you'd get a lot out of this book. It's very useful.

It's also printed very nicely, with high quality bindings. Aesthetically and academically, it can hardly be faulted. I therefore recommend it highly.

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