About Gagana Samoana

Gagana Samoana is for Samoans who grew up understanding a little (or a lot) of our beautiful Samoan language, but don’t speak it fluently… mostly because we live in an English-immersed world.

Now we’re grown and we’re trying to pass our language on to our children, but we’ve got some catch-up learning of our own to do first. Sound familiar?

Gagana Samoana is a collection of resources that can help us acquire Samoan – our own heritage language. The resources here will help fill some of the knowledge gaps we notice when we try to string Samoan sentences together.

We’ve got some general language lessons here, some stories in Samoan (with English translations) and some exercises to help build your Samoan conversation skills.

Everyone learns differently. We’re just trying to give you the largest collection of Samoan language resources on the web so that avid language learners can read, hear and witness the Samoan language in action. We’ll also give you some tips for finding the best language learning methods for you.