User:Robin Patterson
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I live in New Zealand (as do thousands of speakers of Samoan, where Samoans make up the largest group of "Pacific" people after the indigenous Maori). I work mostly on the English and Maori Wikipedias.
A Samoan-language pre-school centre (a'oga amata) recently expanded into a new building in my city (Porirua). It can take 75 children. Its opening was featured on Maori Television.
Please email me (or add a question to my "talk" page here) if you have questions about how you can contribute to the Samoan Wikipedia. I may be able to help, even though I do not speak or read more than a few words of Samoan. Because of my obvious interest in Pacific people I was recently invited to join Islanderfriends.com, where I have been actively promoting this site.
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[edit] Possibly useful links
[edit] Samoan-English
- Samoan-English Dictionary by Webster
- SamoaLive - comprehensive Samoan-English
- Samoan_language - small vocab list, which I have on my office harddrive - "American Samoans have a rich language that remains the main language of the people. English is the second language and all islanders can speak english as well."
[edit] English-Samoan
- http://riders.bmxboard.com/waesa/EnglishSamoan.htm
- English-Samoan Word list - and its owner has agreed that we can copy the list to WP (with suitable acknowledgments) on the understanding that he is not an expert (but he was brought up in Samoa) - see [[1]]
- Samoa.WS Dictionary of English to Samoan Translations
- Do you speak English? E te malamalama i le faa Peretania?
- Do you speak German? E te malamalama i le faa Siamani?
- Do you speak French? E te malamalama i le faa Farani?
- Could you speak more slowly, please? E mafai ona e tau tala faa gesegese
- I understand Ua ou malamalama
- I don't understand Ou te le malama lama
- Can you help me, please? E mafai ona e fesoasoani mai?
- It's important E taua
- What does this mean? O le a le uiga lemea lea?
- What do you call this? O le a le ta'u o le mea lea?
[edit] Miscellaneous
- User:Robin Patterson/drafts,etc
- Samoan Sensation
- Father's Love Letter in Samoan
- English Wikipedia article on the language
- Planet papers essay on the language
- My 15/2/05 notice on a Forum
- Samoa Association of Women Graduates
- National University of Samoa - Le Iunivesite Aoao o Samoa
- [2]
- Links to Samoan Businesses, Services and Information Sources
- New Zealand Ministry of Education - A'oga Fa'a Samoa
Sometimes when I'm in a hurry I use this IP: 202.27.88.6.
