Bel Control Creole Multilingual Dictionary
English-Creole-Spanish-French
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The Multilingual Dictionary is one of a series of textbooks prepared in four languages (Creole, Spanish, English, and French) whose purpose is to facilitate the Creole learning process, to make life easier, and to facilitate research. The Dictionary has an introduction, a contrastive analysis of the four languages, punctuation marks, grammatical hints to pass easily from one language to another, and comparison of seventy eight Latin words and expressions. It is divided into two main parts: Creole-English (Creole in alphabetical order) and English-Creole (English in alphabetical order). The Dictionary has 476 pages, and about 70, 000 entries. In this Dictionary, we use general terminologies, common creolized French words and expressions, native Haitian and African words, foreign words, technological, scientific, or newly Haitian coined words as well as words from several matters such as: Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Religion, Law, Medicine, and so on. We follow the official orthography of the Haitian Creole.
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The Multilingual Dictionary in Creole, English, Spanish, and French is definitely for the polyglots, the philologists, and for anyone who wants to learn, improve, or compare his/her languages.
It is not common to see a book written in four languages before. This multilingual dictionary, although it is focused principally on the Haitian Creole, should interest anyone.
About the Author
The author of Bèl Kontwòl Kreyòl series is native of Haiti where Creole and French are official languages. That means he manages both of them, including the social, cultural, and pragmatic aspects. Besides, he lives and studies in Puerto Rico and in Florida where Spanish and English are spoken.
He made is primary, elementary, and high schools studies in Haiti, while the bachelor and master degrees were made in Puerto Rico.
His master of arts was realized in education with concentration in instructional design and technology of education. The emphasis has been placed on learning and teaching processes, linguistics, design, and implementation of instructional materials as well as on models and strategies of teaching.
His bachelor degree was in management and accounting.