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If you are learning Tahitian, this book was not created for you, and you should not purchase it. It was created for completely fluent mother-tongue speakers of Tahitian who already know the full meaning of Tahitian words, but who need to learn how a single English translation of a Tahitian word may have ambiguous meanings in the English language. It is designed for bi-lingual education for the non-English reader who wants to improve English-language test scores covering English synonyms. Synonyms may bear no relationship to a translation word (e.g. “love” can signify both an emotion and a score of zero in tennis; zero, while being a synonym of love, is likely to be a bad translation to the original Tahitian headword). This is a regular English thesaurus, like Roget’s, but the entries are sorted alphabetically using headwords from Tahitian. It cannot be used to translate between the two languages, but may help a fluent speaker of Tahitian who is learning basic English, to learn the ambiguities of the English language and its vocabulary. The synonyms for each headword are not translations; Tahitian words are used to facilitate “looking up” English synonyms. Prior to purchase, educ

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Author

Philip M. Parker

Publisher

Icon Group International, Incorporated

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780497837303

Category

reference

Subjects

Language Learning, Language

Rating

3.3 / 5 (12 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14