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xi Acknowledgments To my many past and present students, thank you for your help in the preparation of this book. Over the years, many exercises have been tried in my many classes at schools, institutions , in the community, and in the classroom at university. The testing of exercises and materials in these classes has been invaluable and has enabled me not only to control but also to collate good material for student use. Very sincere thanks to students at Manukau Polytechnic (1970s); the Pacific Islanders’ Educational Resource Centre, Auckland (1970s); the Wellington Multicultural Educational Resource Centre (1980s); the Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua, Wellington (1980s); and Victoria University of Wellington (1990s–). I will always be grateful to my father Tuiletufuga Papāli‘i Enelē for his encouragement and good advice, and also to my dear mother Lagimāina for all her love and tapua‘iga. I am also indebted to the work done by other Samoan language scholars. These have assisted greatly in the grammatical and structural explanations. Their works are listed in the bibliography. However, I would like to make special mention of my long time friend and spiritual uso and university colleague, afioga Fepulea‘i Lasei Dr. John Mayer, head of the Samoan programme at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, for his modern and very helpful rendition of a basic grammar of Samoan. Mālō lava le fai o le faiva i lau afioga Fepulea‘i. Galumalemana Afeleti Hunkin ...

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