New Zealand Certificate in Pacific Language Samoa (Level 3)

Summary

Programme highlights

Learn to speak Gagana Samoa (the Samoan language) and develop your understanding of Samoan culture.

This qualification is for anyone who works with Pacific nations people and wants to improve their communication skills.

If you’re of Samoan descent raised in New Zealand, this is a chance to reconnect to your language and culture.

You will learn skills in:

• Speaking
• Listening
• Reading and writing
• Understanding cultural practices.

A leai se Gagana, ua leai se aganuu. A leai se aganuu, ua po le nu’u.

If there is no language, then there is no culture. If there is no culture, the village is in darkness. (Fanaafi, 1996)