Learn
Tetun!
Learn Tetun language and
Timorese culture in-country through intensive
courses at DIT, as well as through online and in-person lessons on
campus or in your office. We offer courses all year round,
teaching Tetun at all levels from absolute beginners to advanced. Join
us for
one week or more, as your schedule permits. For more information, click
here.New Testament translation in everyday Tetun
Testamentu
Foun ba Ema Hotu was launched as an app in October 2021,and is available as an app from Google Playstore.
It can also be downloaded as EPUB, PDF or HTML from here.
For more information look up "Biblia ba Ema Hotu" on Facebook.
2021 publications and international conference presentations
Ximenes Santos, Luis2021, Kemak dialects in Timor-Leste. 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. Download Powerpoint. View presentation.
Lucas, Olinda & Catharina Williams-van Klinken
2021, Modern poetry in Tetun Dili (plenary). 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics,
Download Powerpoint. View presentation.
Williams-van Klinken, Catharina & Olinda Lucas
2021, Multilingualism in Timor-Leste. Multilingualism, Migration and the Multilingual City.
Download.
Williams-van Klinken,
2021, Writing English for translation to Tetun. Download.
Williams-van Klinken, Catharina with Alexandre Fernandes Cham and Marta Cardoso
2021, Tetun language learning for international scholars and students. Pre-Conference Workshop -
Association for Asian Studies. Download.
2020 publications from the DIT Centre for Language Studies
da Conceição Soares, Adelina, & dos Santos, Francisca Cecilia X.
2020, Code switching in university classrooms in Timor-Leste. Download.
da Silva, Justino & Cesaltina Martins
2018, Slang in Tetun Dili. Download conference paper.
2020, Jiria: Ne'e U! Download.
Gonçalves, Norberto2020, Identifying a person’s origin through their pronunciation of Tetun Dili: Who can do it?
Download.
Williams-van Klinken, Catharina.
2020, Dezenvolvimentu lian Tetun tuir dalan informal. [Tetun development through informal channels]. Download.
2020, Discourse structures of Tetun Dili. Download.
2019, Tradusaun ba lian Tetun. Download.
Silva, Martinha Rodrigues Rebelo Santos, Simões, Basília Aurélia, & dos Santos, Estela S., 2020
Williams-van Klinken, Catharina, & Hajek, John.
2020. Double agent, double cross? Or how a suffix changes sides in an isolating language: dór in Tetun Dili. In Antoinette Schapper & David Gil (Eds.), Austronesian undressed: How and why languages become Isolating. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Resources
Our publications include Tetun language learning materials, manuals to
teach Tetun writing and academic skills to university students, and
dictionaries and technical glossaries. You can also download many of
our articles and conference presentations,
mainly on Tetun, but also on other languages in
Timor, on
language teaching, and on other aspects of Timor. For details, click here.Tetun, English and Portuguese for DIT students
All Dili Institute of Technology students study three languages:
The Tetun course teaches academic skills in Tetun, using our own textbooks, available here.
The intensive English course runs for 15 hours per week in first year, and 5 hours per week in second year, by which time they are focusing on English for their own areas of study.
The Portuguese course aims at increasing students' knowledge of Portuguese, including in their areas of study.
Tetun writing courses
When time permits we can provide courses in Tetun writing skills for other institutions, as well as training in the use of our Tetun textbooks for teaching at tertiary level.
For futher information, contact us.
Hajek, John, & Williams-van Klinken, Catharina.
DIT Language Centre's mission
- Teach, research and provide training in the languages needed for higher education in Timor-Leste.
- Enable people from diverse cultures to be able to listen to and understand each other.
- Teach Tetun at all levels to the international community.
- Seek to help to develop Tetun, especially as a language of education and work.
- Study and help develop the national languages.