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Talk Now! Tok Pisin CD ROM (Pidgin English) Language Course.

We recommend Talk Now! for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, colors, numbers, food, shopping, time, countries, etc.

  Talk Now! is designed for people who want to learn a language quickly. It's fun, fast, and makes learning easy. If you don't have time to become fluent, but need the basics in a hurry, then Talk Now! is for you.

   Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with both sexes of native speakers.

  And Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers.

  This is a fun way of instruction to learn and speak the Tok Pisin language.

• Ideal for beginners and travelers
• Topics include: first words, phrases, food, shopping, numbers, time and more
• Interactive and fun
• Immediate responses to every choice you make
• Compare your pronunciation to that of native speakers, using the record button
• Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes, plus play a challenging memory game!
• Monitor your progress—keep a check on your total score, and print your own awards.
• On-screen help is available at all times in over
• Print your own picture dictionary for handy reference

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Tok Pisin Language Phrasebook

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Tok Pisin (Pidgin English) Language (Papua New Guinea) Phrasebook.  Lonely Planet Publications. 
 

The best available guide to the pidgins and creoles of Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, north Australia and Torres Strait. These fascinating languages have developed from English, so you'll recognize plenty of words, but their grammar, sentence structure and extensive vocabularies mean that you'll find this phrasebook invaluable in understanding the language around you.
-- wherever you travel in the region, and despite the huge number of local languages, you can still communicate easily.  This edition has expanded language and cultural tips covering all situations.

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Tok Pisin Language Dictionary

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Tok Pisin (Neo-Melanesian)-English, Concise Dictionary (Papua-New Guinea Pidgin English)  Hippocrene Books.  Includes 1,900 entries.

Pidgin forms of English have existed in a number of countries, but the most important one in use today is the Melanesian Pidgin of eastern New Guinea and nearby islands.

  This concise dictionary includes all the words which are used universally throughout the territory.

  Paperback. 160 pages. Size 5" x 8".

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Tok Pisin:

Papua New Guinea is renowned for having over 700 languages spoken by its four million people. This figure sounds incredible, but is a thoroughly researched fact.
 

Of course the number is steadily decreasing, as education and transportation break down the barriers that lead to this huge number.
 

Travel led to the necessity for some kind of common language. The two colonizing powers in Papua New Guinea spoke German and English, and those two languages gave rise to a Pidgin language. The granting of territorial responsibility to Australia after World War 1 ensured it was English that has predominated in this Pidgin.
 

Many are offended by what they perceive to be "baby talk", and believe Pidgin English cannot be validly called a language.
 

However what has evolved as the Tok Pisin language indeed fulfills the criteria for a language. Among these are the facts that it can express all the daily transactions its speakers wish to make without recourse to another language, and its speakers think in the language.
 

This is not to say Pidgin speakers do not have other languages. Most Papua New Guineans still have a mother tongue, learned in their villages. However with urbanization there is emerging a generation who are more fluent in Tok Pisin than any other language.
 

The language has been systematized into a grammar and dictionary. The most work in this area has been done by Frank Mihalic, a priest who still writes in the weekly Tok Pisin newspaper "Wantok". "The Jacaranda Dictionary and Grammar of Melanesian Pisin" is still in print.
 

There are no Tok Pisin courses that I am aware of available on the Internet. There are some taped courses and some run by various military and Aid organizations.