Resources
A full list of
publications by Catharina
Williams-van Klinken is available here.
Links to work by others
Note: New
editions of all our Tetun books were produced in 2015, to
reflect
a minor revision in the spelling system used. The main change was that
Portuguese 'nh' and 'lh' are now written the same way in Tetun (e.g.
senhora 'ma'am'. In
earlier editions, these were written with 'ny' and 'ly' (e.g.
senyora) to avoid
confusion with the few native Tetun words that have an n-h sequence
(e.g.
bainhira
'when').
This lists only publications available for free download.
Tetun
dictionaries and glossaries
Tetun-English
interactive
dictionary
Catharina Williams-van
Klinken, 2019, 3rd edition.
This interactive Tetun-English
dictionary was produced with the assistance of many people. It
currently
has 11600 Tetun headwords plus 1200 sub-entries, and 12700 English
entries. There are 5400 cross-references to related words, such as
words with similar or opposite meaning, as well as 3200 example
sentences. You can search for words through Tetun or English. On the
non-Android version you can also search by
categories such as health or agriculture.
Download installation file here
for Windows. (You may need to uninstall any earlier version
first, then install this one as administrator.)
Download HTML files here
for a less elegant option that runs on more platforms.
The Android
version for edition 3 is not ready yet, but you
can download edition 2 here from Google Playstore, and it
should update automatically when the new edition is online.
We are hoping to have an Apple version in the near future.
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Word-finder
Tetun/English
Catharina Williams-van
Klinken, 2015, 2nd edition.
Word-finder is a pocket-sized mini-dictionary
designed for beginner and intermediate learners of Tetun and English.
With some 4500 Tetun headwords, and 4900 English ones, it focuses on
generally known vocabulary on everyday topics.
It is
available for about US$5-$10 from bookshops in Dili, or can be
downloaded here. Alternatively, for bulk
orders, contact us
directly for a discount price of $3 per copy for orders of 30 or
more,
and $2.50 per copy for orders of at least 100.
For larger-print
copies, the discount price is $4 for orders of 30 or more, or $4.50 for
orders of at least 100.
Download: book, cover
Glosariu
turizmu no hahaan / Tourism and food
Catharina Williams-van
Klinken, Helio Brites
da
Silva, Cesaltina Martins Tilman, Martinha Rodrigues Rebelo Santos
Silva, Marta
Cardoso, Anabela Maia Santos and Justino da Silva, 2016.
This glossary contains 500 tourism and 700 food and cooking
terms
in Tetun, Portuguese, English and
Indonesian. It can be bought in book form for about
$10, downloaded as
a PDF file, or run as an interactive program.
Download as PDF: book,
cover.
Download installation file here
(5.7MB) for Windows 7, XP, Vista, or here
for Android.
Download HTML files here
for other platforms.
Glosariu informatika / IT
Glossary
Catharina
Williams-van Klinken, Marcelo Fernandes Xavier Cham and Saleh Abdullah
Alkatiri, 2015, 2nd edition.
This glossary has over 700 computing terms in Tetun,
Portuguese, English and
Indonesian. It can be bought in book form for about $10, downloaded as
a PDF file, or run as an interactive program.
Download as PDF: book,
cover.
Download installation file here
(5.7MB) for Windows 7, XP, Vista.
Download HTML files here for
other platforms.
Glosáriu eleisaun nian: lia fuan kona ba
eleisaun [Electoral glossary]
Independent Electoral
Commission & UNDP (written by
Catharina Williams-van Klinken, in conjunction with Nuno Gomes,
Fransisco Luis Fernandes and Bernardino Menezes), 2002livru.
Download book.
Coursebooks
Peace
Corps East Timor Tetun Language
Course, with recordings and flashcards
Catharina Williams-van
Klinken, 2015, 3rd edition
This comprehensive Tetun course written for English-speaking foreigners
covers a wide range of everyday
needs, as well as an introduction to more specialised areas such as
administration, education and agriculture. It is available in book form
for about US$20 from various shops in Dili, East Timor, on CD
together
with the recordings and flashcards, or can be downloaded here.
Book:
Download book
(10.8MB), cover
(7.3MB).
Or dowload parts of book as
smaller files of less than 1MB: Cover, Front
matter - chapter 5,
Chapters
6-10, 11-15,
16-25,
26-35,
36-45,
46-Appendix.
Recordings
for vocabulary and dialogues of chapters 1-10.
Flashcards
for vocabulary of chapters 1-12 (Prepared by Peter
Sullivan, using Cuecard), Download as .ZIP file (869KB).
Memrise
program for learning vocabulary.
Tetun ba eskola ho servisu 1
Catharina
Williams-van Klinken, Leoneto da Silva Ribeiro, Cesaltina
Martins
Tilman, 2015.
This book is designed to teach study skills and Tetun writing to
first-semester university students. Chapters cover the history
of
Tetun, principles of spelling, methods for learning vocabulary.
goal-setting,
formal and informal speech, showing time relationships between clauses,
writing narratives, looking for information in books and articles,
taking notes from written
and spoken texts, and writing summaries.
Download
book,
cover.
Tetun ba eskola ho servisu 2
Catharina
Williams-van Klinken, Leoneto da Silva Ribeiro, Cesaltina Martins
Tilman, Teófilo
António Soares Maia and Melky Fridus Ladis Costa Akoyt, 2016.
This book is designed to teach study skills and Tetun
writing to
second-semester university students. Chapters cover writing
descriptions, reports and procedures, using paragraphs, critical
thinking, doing job interviews, numbers, writing literature reviews and
bibliographies, translation, and ways of translating passives
into Tetun.
Download
book,
cover.
Tetun for the
Justice
Sector
Catharina Williams-van
Klinken
together with Alexandre Fernandes Cham, Anabela Maia
Santos, Hendriana da Costa Marçal, and Jacinta Canossa Soares,
2015, 2nd edition.
This
book, produced cooperatively by the Timor-Leste Police Development
Program and Dili Institute of Technology, is designed to teach Tetun at
intermediate
level with special emphasis on policing and justice. It
includes chapters on the structure of the government and the national
police service PNTL, violence, arrest and detention, traffic, resolving
problems within the extended family, interviewing, and search and
seizure.
Download book,
cover.
Atividade hodi hanorin lingua (Language teaching
activities)
Luann Gronhovd, 2003.
Dili: Peace Corps East Timor.
Download.
Grammar
of Tetun Dili
Discourse Structures of Tetun Dili
Catharina van Klinken
and Olinda Lucas,
2020. Dili: Dili Institute of Technology.
Download.
Tetun Dili: a grammar of an East Timorese
language
Catharina van Klinken,
John Hajek and Rachel
Nordlinger,
2002.
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, 520.
Download.
Grammar of Tetun Terik
A grammar of the Fehan dialect of Tetun,
an Austronesian language of West Timor
Catharina van Klinken,
1999.
Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, C-155
.
Download.
Resources for English
DIT English grammar teaching guide: Tense, aspect and
frequency
Peter Coenradi with DIT
English language teachers, 2019.
This teachers' guide presents the main tenses and aspects in English,
comparing them with Tetun ways of expressing similar concepts.
Download book.
English III for Tourism
Ken McIntyre, 2013.
This students' workbook was produced to aid tourism and
hospitality students in learning English at semester 3 level. It covers
topics related to air travel, timetables and schedules, hotels,
restaurants, travel documents, charts and graphs, and writing skills.
Download book.
English III for
Petroleum
Ken McIntyre, 2013.
This students' workbook was produced to aid
petroleum engineering and petroleum management students in learning
English at semester 3 level. It covers topics such as measurements,
comparisons, tools, production and transportation, graphs and charts,
employment, safety, and writing skills.
Download book.