Learn the Samoan Language online… 100% FREE!
…with native Samoan speakers and a Samoan grammar geek
⇒ Begin with The Samoan Language Basics: 18 quick lessons (with audio and video) to introduce you to Gagana Samoa
⇒ More advanced? Check out Your Complete Guide to the Samoan Language, which dives deeper into Samoan grammar and how our language really works
⇒ Enjoy timeless or original Stories in Samoan (also with audio); it’s our favourite, most engaging way to pick up the Samoan language
Samoan Language Basics
Brand new to the Samoan language? Start with our 18 FREE beginner lessons to learn basic Samoan vocabulary, simple sentence structures and common expressions that will get you saying Samoan things fast!
Your Complete Guide to the Samoan Language
Gain Gagana Samoa mastery by delving into how our language really works. After a bit of language history, explore our comprehensive outline of the Samoan grammar, where we’ll cover nouns, verbs, prepositions, those tricky possessive pronouns and lots more.
Learn Samoan With Stories
Our favourite way to learn Samoan is through stories. Read along with the audio in Samoan and check your understanding with our English translations. Then see how much you’re learning with our quizzes and activities.
LET’S CONNECT
We’re always working on projects to make your Samoan language learning more fun and effective.
Sign up to get news and updates – straight to you email – from Gagana Samoa and the Anavatau Project.
From the Gagana Blog
What language is most similar to Samoan?
As a Samoan speaker, I can tell you that of all the languages I have heard, the one that is most similar to Gagana Samoa is the language of Tokelau. As in, I can listen to Radio Tokelau and understand around 90% or more of what they're saying. As in, aside from a few...
Talofa Friends
It's Lilieni here, just checking in to let you know what's happening with this website. A lot! But mostly, we're revising our old posts to make them more useful and we're re-building the whole site so it flows in a way that makes more sense. So... Gagana Samoa is...
![More Useful Samoan Phrases for When You’re Beginning to Learn Samoan [with video]](https://i0.wp.com/gagana-samoa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/phrases.jpg?resize=400%2C250&ssl=1)
More Useful Samoan Phrases for When You’re Beginning to Learn Samoan [with video]
Probably the best way to learn a new language is to get right in there from the start and use your new language with people who already know it. Because Samoan is our heritage language (i.e. the language of our parents and ancestors), it's very likely that we'll know...
Five things you probably didn’t know about the Samoan Alphabet
How much do you know about the Samoan alphabet? My New Zealand-born friend once challenged her many siblings to recite the Samoan alphabet, and even though they're Samoan, even though they grew up with Samoan speaking parents, even though they understand our language...
![Useful Samoan Phrases for When You’re Beginning to Learn Samoan [with video]](https://i0.wp.com/gagana-samoa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Denzel.jpg?resize=400%2C250&ssl=1)
Useful Samoan Phrases for When You’re Beginning to Learn Samoan [with video]
Six-year-old Denzel is our handsome young Kiwi Kid who's learning Samoan together with his Kiwi Kid mum, MarlenaWhen you're first learning a new language, it's a good idea to memorize a few useful words and phrases that will help you to begin communicating with native...
Gagana Samoa is part of the Anavatau Project, which explores the Samoan language and culture as preserved in books, academic papers, art, living memory and in the poetry of our timeless song lyrics.
This effort is spread across three websites: Anavatau, Gagana Samoa and Samoan Lyrics plus our various social media.