VIDEO CAPTION In English we’d say Sam’s bike In Samoan it’s The bike of Sam or o le uila a Sam In English we’d say Sam’s house In Samoan it’s the house of Sam or O le fale o Sam Sam’s car The car of Sam or O le ta’avale a Sam Sams mother, The…
Caption: Basically the difference between a class possessions and o class in Samoan this will be the shortest simplest video. The main mistake you do not want to make is referring to your parents or God is “a” class. Not O la’u tina or o la’u tama, it’s lo’u tina, o lo’u tama, O lo…
An abbreviated for way one person to tell or ask another person to do something is “ta” and then the action they want to do.Ta is the dual Samoan pronoun that means “we or us 2” You’ll hear ta in a lot of love songs because Ta is used when one person is speaking to…
Caption: Someone pointed out to me that when you’re reading Samoan in order to translate it, you often have to start in the middle, then go back to the front for it to make sense. That’s because in English we typically start our sentences with the subject. In Samoan, we don’t usually start with the subject. …
Video Transciption: There’s several ways to phrase numeric places in Samoan.. We’re gonna talk about how to say first second third fourth and so on. We’re gonna practice a day within a year or month To say the day…. its O le aso To say first, we’d say muamua The first day…. O le aso…
Another great phrase to help learn Samoan pronouns is the phrase O fea o (fill in the blank) and then i ai Which basically means “where is she at, where are we at, where are they at?”. But it depends on the pronoun you’re using. O fea…a lot of times you’ll just hear fea which…
Here’s how to tell time in Samoan: When someone asks ‘Ua ta le fia? or It has struck the how many…basically what time is it The first sentece structure, let’s use the hour of 2. ‘Ua ta le lua, ‘Ua kuata le lua, ‘Ua afa le lua ‘Ua is the present tense marker, le means the, and lua…
Caption: If you put lē in front of any action or adjective, the action or adjective becomes negative. Siva….lē siva…. Ou te le siva Kea ….le kea…. Ou te le kea Fiafia…le fiafia…E le fiafia le teine Notice in front of the le is a tense marker. Tense marker, le, then the action or adjectives….
When the tense of a statement is understood, the tense marker is often omitted. The command tense marker is often omitted because the tense is almost always understood as immediate, urgent, and present. Sometimes you only need a verb/action word like aumai, ave, salapu, alu, alu ese, fa’avave, fa’avave mai, fa’avave mai lau tuai. You…
The Matou Samoan Language class for Beginners will start January 23, 2024 and ends March 14, 2024. Classes meet every Tuesday and Thursday 7:00pm California, USA time. All classes are recorded, so if you’re unable to attend class you will receive a password to access the exclusive content (recorded classes & worksheets) for students. If…
