Gagana Samoa: A Samoan Language Coursebook, Revised Edition

Galumalemana Afeleti Hunkin

University of Hawaii Press, Jun 9, 2009 - Language Study - 200 pages

Gagana Samoa is a modern Samoan language resource. Designed for both classroom and personal use, it features a methodical approach suitable for all ages; an emphasis on patterns of speech and communication through practice and examples; 10 practical dialogues covering everyday social situations; an introduction to the wider culture of fa‘asamoa through photographs; more than 150 exercises to reinforce comprehension; a glossary of all Samoan words used in the coursebook; oral skills supplemented with audio files available on a separate CD or for download or streaming on the web:

Contents

• Pronunciation: 1
• Greetings: 7
• This That These Those: 11
• Articles: 19
• Revision: 23
• The Negative: 25
• Adjectives: 28
• Simple Commands: 32
• Locating Objects or People: 37
• Numbers: 41
• Statementsthe Word O: 46
• Telling the Time: 49
• The House: 51
• Days of the Week Months of the Year: 55
• Verbs: 59
• Verb Tenses: 62
• Verb Usage: 67
• Negative of the Tenses: 72
• Personal Pronouns: 74
• Pronoun Usage: 76
• Possessive Pronouns: 83
• More on Adjectives: 90
• Buying and Selling: 93
• The Verb To Be: 96
• The Structure To Have: 100
• Word Order in Samoan Sentences: 103
• The Relative Particle Ai: 107
• Conjunctions: 112
• Ten Useful Conversations: 116
• Songs Rhymes Riddles Puzzles: 125
• Revision: 131
• Answers to Exercises: 137
• Glossary: 161
• Bibliography: 179

About the author

Author: Hunkin, Galumalemana Afeleti; Galumalemana Afeleti Hunkin was born in Fale‘ula, Western Samoa, in 1945. He became the foundation tutor of Samoan language and culture at the Pacific Islanders’ Educational Resource Centre, Auckland, in 1977. Four years later he was appointed director of the Wellington Multicultural Educational Resource Centre. He is now a senior lecturer in Samoan studies at Victoria University.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Gagana Samoa: A Samoan Language Coursebook, Revised Edition
• Author: Galumalemana Afeleti Hunkin
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 2009
• ISBN: 0824831314, 9780824831318
• Length: 200 pages
• Subjects: Foreign Language Study / Oceanic & Australian Languages