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Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoa Language Week

Learn some everyday phrases in Samoan
Article Date
June 4, 2026

Tālofa lava

As Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoan Language week comes to an end, how about looking at the range of print and ebooks available to Open Polytechnic learners?  These are just a few of our resources:

Samoa mo Samoa: Black Saturday 1929 - ebook

An Indigenous Ocean: Pacific Essays - ebook

Mana of the Pacific: Wisdom from across Oceania - print book proverbs provided by published sources and peoples of the Pacific.

Su'esu'e Manogi: In Search of Fragance: Tui Apua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi and the Samoan Indigenous Reference - ebook

Shaping Pacific Place in Aotearoa New Zealand: Ua alu atu le afi - print book

Tōfā soifua!

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