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Samoan Language 101:
Learn to speak Samoan online!
The Samoan 101 language course includes the following to make learning Samoan easy:
- 20 complete lessons, which include a mid-term and final assessment.
- Over 700 audio clips of vocabulary words, sentences, and dialogues.
- 360 audio quiz questions with immediate feedback to aid comprehension.
- Over 300 images to visually aid learners to memorize lesson vocabulary and begin thinking in Samoan.
- 100+ sentences with vocabulary that can be interchanged to create an exponential number of new sentences and phrases to build confidence and fluency.
Programmed Learning Approach
This Samoan Language Course uses a programmed learning approach. Each lesson builds on the previous lesson materials. Giving a comprehensive and expanding language base.
Language is an expression of ideas through the medium of sentences. Samoan 101 will show you properly built sentences and give you numerous vocabulary words that can be substituted or inter-changed to make new sentences. The grammar section of each lesson will give you greater understanding of how this inter-change can work and help you create your own original sentences. As you begin to make your own sentences to express your ideas, YOU’RE SPEAKING SAMOAN!!!! CHAAAAHOOOO!!!
Building off the success of our free Samoan language lessons format, we have enhanced our fee-based Samoan 101 Course lessons with grammatical explanations for the material covered in each lesson, audio quizzes to test your retention and understanding of spoken Samoan, and a midterm and final to test your understanding of the concepts learned throughout the duration of the course. Each lesson still includes Samoan phrases, sentences, dialogues, plus double the vocabulary to make for a more varied and expanding language base.
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Samoan Language Course Now Available
We are pleased to announce our new language course.
Knowing the Samoan language opens the doors to the culture of Samoa
To preserve our culture we need to know the language. As we
familiarize ourselves with the language we can better understand the
culture. Cultural understanding breeds appreciation and
respect. This appreciation and respect for the culture inspires
us to know the language better. As we involve ourselves in this
cycle of learning we enrich our own character and become
respectful people; we become Samoans.
The Samoan language is very rich and it is easy to describe or say the
same thing in many different ways. Therefore, the focus of all these lessons is on COMMONLY SPOKEN SAMOAN. We will teach
the language that you are most likely to hear spoken around you. We will not go into writing or proverbial speaking.
Samoan Success Steps
The following steps will greatly help you to become a fluent Samoan speaker:
1. We encourage you to speak Samoan as much as possible to everyone you
know. Even if they don't understand. Why? Because,
the brain grows by use. Similarly, our language skill will grow
by use. There is no better way to solidify what you have learned
than by applying what you have learned in as many situations as
possible.
2. Teach someone else what you have learned. It is often said
that a teacher gets more out of a lesson than the student. Take
time to teach someone ...anyone who is willing to listen, what
you have learned. Kids are usually willing students.
3. Ask your spouse, friend, grandma, auntie, or dad to reply to you in
Samoan. We say reply because
often when you ask a Samoan a question in Samoan, they will reply, out of respect to you, in the language
of your greatest comprehension, in your case this is probably English.
4. Listen. Listen to others speak Samoan. Listen when they speak to you. Listen to yourself speaking Samoan.
This is a good start of a list. As we hear from you what has worked we will add to this list.
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Samoa Sa'o
A gathering place for information on our islands
In progress is our effort to gather together everything you could
need to keep up
with what is going on in Samoa. By Samoa we mean those who speak
the Samoan language and those who don't, the Eastern and
Western Islands and all the new islands like Long Island NY, Grand Island
NE, the North Island NZ, any island), those who are Samoan by birth or by adoption.
Basically, anywhere you are we want to tell you about it or know about
it.
The people of our islands
An abundance of facts have been gathered but,
most
of all we want to know what is going on right now. The forums
can help us to acheive that goal. A few catagories have been
initiated and there will be more to come. Anyone may view the
posts in the forum but you must be registered to post to the forum.
All you need to do is register for free at the login area to the
left. Click Create One enter your email and you're a member. If you have suggestions on what to put into the
forum just register and post it or click contact and drop us a
line. Hope you enjoy the forum.
Samoa le penina
We have a shop and are frequently adding (pearls) items of interest to it. We
currently have Samoa Fire knives, Vinyl Car Stickers, and coming soon books on Samoan language and people. Please visit the store to see and check back
often for new items.
Samoan language
It has been said that language defines culture. And so it is with
the Samoan language. We hope that our resources become useful for
you and your families. We encourage a bilingual forum. We
also, as has been mentioned, will have our books ready soon. So
please check back.
Fa'afetai Lava
SA'O
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