Tetun

A list of words and phrases of the Tetun material made available to volunteers of Teachers 4 Timor (Ballarat, Australia), supplemented by the vocabulary and dialogue material of the American Peace Corps Program's Tetun course up to chapter 29. For audio files of the dialogue material as well as the full language course developed by Peace Corps East Timor go to: http://www.tetundit.tl/PeaceCorps.html

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Greetings vocab

Greetings phrases

Cardinal numbers

Apologies vocab

Where are you going

Personal information

Family phrases & possessive pronouns

Demonstrative pronouns

Positives & Negatives

Likes & dislikes

Asking questions with like & pronouns

want & don't want

Asking questions with want & pronouns

need & don't need

Asking questions with need & pronouns

Sentences for teaching English

have & don't have & odds-and-ands

have to / must & odds-and-ends

will/will not; intend to; going to; kona; keta

too / also; much / many / a lot of; really / very

Telling time vocab

Telling time sentences

What are you doing?

parties & dances

My house sentences

Beach & mountains

Sentences for kitchen & grocery buying

Money & shopping

Clothes sentences

Food & drink sentences

Weather & seasons

International nouns

additional verbs

important words & phrases

International verbs

More kitchen vocab & sentences

Things we may need

Circumpositions

Sentences with circumpositions

nebee, tok, fali, kedas

More on body and health

Complex descriptions

More clothes etc

more international words 1

more international words 2

Birth and death

more international words 3

Describing people

Derivations -dór

Derivations -door, -teen, nain

Street vocabulary 1

words I needed in class

street vocabulary 2

Street vocabulary 3

Street vocabulary 4

Street vocabulary 5