Intensive course in tongan book

Tongans, the native people of the kingdom of tonga in the south pacific, are a highly mobile indigenous group. Culture of tonga history, people, women, beliefs, food. Instead, verbs tenses are denoted by tense markers that immediately precede the word. Buy online, pick up in store is currently unavailable, but this item may be available for instore purchase. The program, which focused on central asian languages like kazakh, uzbek, and uyghur, was an 8week session at a midwestern university with a terrific reputation for slavic and centralasian languages the program was topflight. The best thing ive ever seen is eric shumways, intensive course in tongan. It is designed for students with little or no knowledge of the language, and for those with some fluency wishing to understand simple. For more advanced tongan i highly recommend eric b. In the old, missionary alphabet, the order of the letters was modified. Shumway born 1939 was the president of brigham young universityhawaii byuhawaii from 1994 to 2007.

The course is for anyone interested in learning the language, especially tongans living overseas who dont speak the language, and hes made it. You will improve your overall language level across the four core skills reading, writing, speaking and listening. Shumway, 1988, institute for polynesian studies, brigham young universityhawaii edition, in english rev. Im a palangi who served the tongan people in new zealand as a mormon missionary over 20 years ago before the internet. Intensive course in tongan 1988 edition open library. That was still so as of the privy council decision of 1943 on the orthography of the tongan language. Maybe youll find a good book to teach yourself some tongan. This cd includes the audio lessons, 2 through 9 as well as the tongan national anthem and other tongan songs. Shumway back in print new edition featuring an extensive, expanded tonganenglish glossary this text consists of lessons, conversational materials, tongan proverbs and songs, and specialized word lists, plus new readings. Like any other new language to learn, you need to practice listening, speaking, and writing skills if necessary find a personal tutor or browse. How to prepare for your first intensive language course. Conjugating verbs in tongan does not require changing the verb.

Im a little apprehensive about my sons reaction to the mako. With great luck, or divine intervention, my tongan housemate gave me a book, completely unrelated to the intensive course. Most verbs in tongan can also function as nouns without morphological change. This course gives you an introduction to the structure of tongan and develops your basic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Please consider making a donation to support this channel paypal. Knowing the difference in english helped me understand that better in tongan. With numerous supplementary materials, grammatical notes, and glossary english and tonga nyasa edition. Online version of freelangs tonganenglish dictionary and englishtongan dictionary. Im not sure what my neighbours will think of his enthusiasm. Translation tonganenglishtongan freelang online dictionary. Im currently writing a book that involves a tongan prince as well as tonga of course. This course is ideal for students who are looking to improve their english in the shortest possible time.

The 20182019 university of hawaii at manoa uh manoa catalog is a comprehensive guide to uh manoa programs, course offerings, services, tuition, financial aid, faculty, facilities, academic policies, and other information of general importance to uh manoa students. Learn intensive course tongan with free interactive flashcards. Carrying their traditions with them, tongans living in maui, hawaii, actively mediate those dimensions by extending the timespace structure of certain activities and places in order to. It depends on why you want to learn the tongan language, tourist or business purposes. Stories from the caribbean, mediterranean, indian ocean and pacific by. This information is extremely enlightening about tonga and its culture that i did not know before and i will definitely be using this knowledge in my book. The paperback of the intensive course in tongan by eric b.

Shuhway, 9780939154487, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Learn a language as quickly as possible for academic or professional reasons. An introduction for children multicultural kid blogs. Shumway born 1939 was the president of brigham young universityhawaii. Intensive course in tongan also be sure to click on the red cover to the. Whether you dont know a word of tongan or you grew up with it. Text consists of lessons, supplementary materials, conversa.

Includes information on language and grammar with numerous supplementary materials, grammatical notes, and glossary. Its the best way to develop deep fluency in the shortest possible time. With numerous supplementary materials, grammatical notes, and glossary paperback by. You can enjoy onetoone classes with a native tutor from the comfort of your home. Our tongan online lessons are useful for everybody who wants to learn, practice or improve their tongan. I did the best i could, but let me know if you have questions. The book happened to be the one that accomodated the course.

It had received loads of money from the state department, attracted teachers from the best. Intensive course in tongan, with numerous supplementary. This book, plus a dictionary, is all i had and i was fluent within 6 months. With numerous supplementary materials, grammatical notes, and glossary english and tonga nyasa edition eric b. Browse the amazon editors picks for the best books of 2019, featuring our favorite reads in more than a dozen categories. During the next few days, i will show my kids tongan traditional dances. Tongan 101g tongan language 1 the university of auckland. After completing his service as university president, he served as president of the nukualofa tonga temple of the church of jesus christ of latterday saints lds church. Intensive course in tongan, with numerous supplementary materials, grammatical notes, and glossary. Shumway back in print new edition featuring an extensive, expanded tongan english glossary this text consists of lessons, conversational materials, tongan proverbs and songs, and specialized word lists, plus new readings.

Books go search your store deals store gift cards sell help. An online course to learn the tongan language, has been developed by joshua tanner, a former lds missionary to tonga. There is a chapter on this specific issue in shumways intensive course in tongan book that did wonders for me. This summer marks the completion of my first intensive language course. I havent studied any other polynesian language but as far as i have read, the double pronouns dont exist in most languages. Available for use at bryn mawr and can be requested. Everything in this course was carefully thought out and organized to give you exactly what you need to know to grasp the tongan language. Like their seafaring ancestors, they are constantly on the move across ta time and va space. But only from the intensive tongan course book and the memrise website. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. This book discussing the history, culture, and language of tonga. Iew level b student writing intensive student seminar.