Samoan - Mata'upu Tau Samoa

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Books Audio and Video Computer Resources Useful External Links

LLC resources are searchable online in the Library catalogue (Location=Language Learning Centre).

Below, find some examples of multimedia resources available at the LLC for independent learning:

Books

• Consult Samoan/English dictionaries, vocabulary and grammar texts at all levels Say It In Samoan, 'O si manu a ali'I, Samoan Reference Grammar...
• Read Fāgogo: Fables from Samoa in Samoan and English (with audio)... poetry Tala Tusia, Meleniuma..., legends Samoa ne'i Galo....
• Explore Samoan culture and traditions Velevelega Tupua, Fa'afaigofiena o Fa'alupega o Samoa, O le ala i le pule tautua, Tala o le Vavau

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Audio and Video

• Learn Samoan with Gagana Samoa coursebook with audio, and Fesoasoani mo le A'oaoina o le Gagana Samoa...
• Enjoy Pasefika Nuis TV recordings, and cultural documentaries on tattooing Measina Samoa: Stories of the Malu, Tatau: A Journey
• Listen to stories, legends, poems and songs Palusami, Pese Siapo, Sina ma si ana tama I le masina, Fatuga Fa'asamoa I Aotearoa

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Computer Resources

• LLC computer software for Samoan
• Practise language and listening with the interactive software Samoan Legends. The first legend is Sina ma si ana tama I le masina (Sina and the Eel), with exercises for other legends under development.

Useful External Links

• Practise Samoan online
  includes language links for grammar, vocabulary, and writing
• Current issues
  Up-to-date news and online television in Samoan
• Cultural links
  The language, culture, people and the beauty of Western and American Samoa

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