Learn Samoan online

free interactive course2,000 real sentences works on your phoneEasy for an English speaker, ~860 hrs

Samoan is spoken by about 500,000 people.

On our measured language map, its closest relatives are Māori, Tongan and Chuukese. If you speak one of those, much of the vocabulary will feel familiar from day one.

one sentence from the course
SamoanSafaamamāinale faleananafi
EnglishThe housewascleanedyesterday
split into its working pieces by the course itself, and paired with the English underneath. Tap a piece to light up what it pairs with. Every one of the 2,000 sentences works like this.
500,000speakers
2,000real sentences
1,353patterns discovered
~860hours from English
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Real Samoan sentences from the course

Auai mai ia i matou.
Join us.
Nofo i luga!
Wake up!
Fa'amagalo mai.
Forgive me.
Ua ou fiafia.
I am happy.
E mafai ona ou aau.
I can swim.

How the course works

Every lesson is built from 2,000 real Samoan sentences, aligned with their translations word by word and piece by piece, so you always see how the sentence actually works instead of memorizing flashcards. The grammar is discovered from the sentences themselves, 1,353 patterns so far, and a spaced-repetition quiz teaches it in the order that unlocks the most of the language first. Our measured estimate for reaching conversational level from English is about 860 hours of study. Read how it works.

Learn Samoan from your own language

Most apps only teach Samoan through English, if they teach it at all. These starting languages already have a built course, and any other published language can be paired on request:

EnglishFilipinoUkrainian

Related languages you can also learn

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Speaker figures follow Ethnologue and national censuses, rounded. The difficulty estimate is calibrated against U.S. Foreign Service Institute data.