Ooo I love your wall how it says *OHANA* means family‚famoly means nobody gets left out or behind or forgotten. -Lilo and Stitch (I still watch Lilo and Stitch)
Aloha a me Talofa mai Hawaiʻi e Tyna 🌊🌴☀ I really appreciated this vid and you sharing of yourself and your personal experiences. Most of these I knew, but it was a good refresher. My mom is afakasi and jokes I'm "quaka-kasi" or quarter-caste. She never really taught us the language. I pretty much just look Filipino from my dad, so at least you look Samoan! I've felt "plastic" or "not Filipino/Samoan/American enough" my whole life, but the whole life/identity/getting to know and build yourself is a journey, yeah? It's really good that you at least understand. I can catch bits and pieces, but one day lol. Much respect for creating and sharing this vid with us, even though you're still learning as well. I think it's awesome you did this in honor of being Samoan and Samoan Language Week 🙌🏽 Faʻafetai, mahalo, and much Aloha/Alofa 🙂🐢💖🤙🏽
My parents divorced when I was younger so I never got to experience my Samoan side growing up. I'm now trying to learn all I can in my 20s and so glad I stumbled upon this! I'm not sure if I get to call myself a plastic Samoan since I don't know any of my Samoan family members haha
Don’t give up keep going. At least your trying. Samoans appreciate you for at least having a go and you will get better with consistency. Remember immerse yourself in the language, culture, music and try to speak at least a few times a day and like with everything it will eventually become second nature. O le mea sili e te taumafai. Alofa
suga you look and sound more samoan than i ever will omgg i could pick you out as an islander in any crowd and then people just ask me what i am because i don't look white enough but i don't look samoan at ALL
Now and then I always get people approaching me and usually start speaking to me in Samoan which I get totally lost in translation and usually respond with yup im good when i didn't even understand what they said.I know I definitely look Samoan but Im definitely plastic 100%.this video is really helping me understand the basics and respond confidently in samoan.I only just stumbled upon this clip and looking forward to subscribing.
The part where you act like your mum saying Leai is hilarious... I’m just learning the language now I’m older but my grandmother would do the same thing to me when we were growing up but I never understood here. Haha this palagi is looking forward to learning my heritage and language. Great video
My dads fluent in Samoan and it’s his first language , I can understand some but when I try and say it, it comes out so wrong 🤣😹 so now I’m trying to pronounce and learn more Samoan so I can be fluent 😅
Fa'atoese - apologize My dad told me that K is the original it was when the missionaries arrived in Samoa that they changed the k to t. From then on it was only those who were considered educated or of high satus (matai) used the T and ordinary villager's continued to use the K. That's why we continue to hear the K when ordinary villager's talk, and only hear the T in church, and matai formal ceremonies and when speaking to elders etc... I was quite baffled at this, and still to this day I'm wondering if there are any Samoan elders who can rectify whether this is correct? ❤️
It's the other way around. Original Samoan is in T's and the missionaries introduced the K because when they were translating the Bible. For example, Christ is Keriso in Samoan. K wasn't the only letter added to the Samoan alphabet, but the H and R came with it as well. In colloquial speech the traditional T changes to K, the R changes to L, and the N changes to a G. It is easier to speak in k, l, g because all speech is done in the back of the throat rather than T, R, N which are all in the front of the mouth. The traditional T is used for written Samoan, prayers, speeches (church speeches not cultural speeches which are spoken in K's).
Hey im also samoan i also can tell you are cause you have that similar voice also malo also means bye i can't spell samoan words sorry ik im also plastic lol anyway sevies hope i spelled that right sevies is shoes i knkw how to say it its just i can't really spell i have 1 question do you get mad at people when they say samoa wrong they say the o like how its not suppose to sound hope that makes sense i am actually samoan not lieing im also learning spanish
heyyy, yeah there are some days where I just leave it because I can't be bothered trying to explain to the person how to say Samoa. Thank you so much for the comment.
Hi iwould really love to learn the Samoan language azwe have samoans at work but can't talk English so iwould love 2 learn he Samoan language so me and my coworkers can talk your beautiful language ❤❤❤❤❤ican only talk te reo maori and English
Plastic? that's a racist slur. Ethnic identity is defined by family decent and blood relations not weather somebody speaks a language or not. The Samoan language doesn't have its own written language and has to borrow the European Latin alphabet what a sham. Learn some respect most pacific peoples in western nations do not speak their mother tongue because of generational dispute and intermarriage into other ethnicities. The fact when you have kids+grandkids+great grand kids you can't bet 100% of your family will speak your mother tonge let alone 50% at all. Its a real shame pacific people wish to divide their own race into who is real or not when they're obviously wrong as ethnicity is 100% defined by blood decent and blood relations. The fact that most pacific people don't live on their own home island and live in the palangi western world makes them plastic right? According to you persuasion of definition it does only folk who live on the islands are real just like people who hold this whole 'speak your language or you're plastic' opinion are stupid very stupid.
Calvin, how is she being disrespectful? And where did you get your "generational dispute and intermarriage" about "most pacific people" not speaking their "mother tongue"? I'm a Samoan man who was raised in New Zealand and the reason a lot of the kids, don't speak the language is because English is the prevalent language used in everyday life period! Now when our generation have children, we will more than likely speak to our kids in English, because it is easy and then the language gets lost which is quite common. Also, I agree with what she is saying at the end where when someone who wasn't raised in the Islands try, then no one is really willing to help or they will be mocked teased which makes them no longer want to continue. I don't even know if you're from any Polynesian Island, but you sound arrogant and un-educated buddy!
+Fuamau'u Taito "Now when our generation have children we will more likely speak to our kids in english which is easy and then the language gets lost which is quiet common" Exactly a generational dispute of weather the next generation will speak the language or not. FYI there is a thing called bilingualism and many NZ born islanders are raised this way. Also many island families in NZ and western nations don't dare to live this way that is such a dispute I hint at. Apologies my 1st comment wasn't a personal attack on her its an In Your Face everyday example toward islanders who are of the opinion that any western islander not speaking their mother tonge is 'plastic' people need to grow up and stop that way of thinking it is abusive if anything.
+Fuamau'u Taito OK where do I appear arrogant and uneducated? Please explain. What I said in my 1st comment is 100% factual. You had even asked me to repeat myself (yes you did) when I had already shared my view on how the language is lost through generations in the 1st comment.
@@calvin6705 Well, when I read your "generational dispute", I was of the understanding that you meant something else but you just came across as "arrogant" with your comment. Anyways, are you even an Islander? What makes you so knowledgeable in this area?
+Fuamau'u Taito Yeah ghee islander born and raised south Aucks. I've just had the comments thrown at me growing up 'plastics this! n that!' the sky is falling right ppl need to chill especially when a 'plastic' is held in lower esteem looked down upon and this way of thinking has crept into nz island culture.
Interesting culture samoa
So glad I came across this. My father's side of the family is Samoan. So I have been learning the culture and language.
Ooo I love your wall how it says
*OHANA*
means family‚famoly means nobody gets left out or behind or forgotten.
-Lilo and Stitch
(I still watch Lilo and Stitch)
I LOVE LILO AND STITCH!!!
Aloha a me Talofa mai Hawaiʻi e Tyna 🌊🌴☀
I really appreciated this vid and you sharing of yourself and your personal experiences. Most of these I knew, but it was a good refresher. My mom is afakasi and jokes I'm "quaka-kasi" or quarter-caste. She never really taught us the language. I pretty much just look Filipino from my dad, so at least you look Samoan! I've felt "plastic" or "not Filipino/Samoan/American enough" my whole life, but the whole life/identity/getting to know and build yourself is a journey, yeah? It's really good that you at least understand. I can catch bits and pieces, but one day lol. Much respect for creating and sharing this vid with us, even though you're still learning as well. I think it's awesome you did this in honor of being Samoan and Samoan Language Week 🙌🏽
Faʻafetai, mahalo, and much Aloha/Alofa 🙂🐢💖🤙🏽
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I'm still learning who I am as a person and where I fit in this world. But I'm getting better. Hopefully you will too! Good Luck!
My parents divorced when I was younger so I never got to experience my Samoan side growing up. I'm now trying to learn all I can in my 20s and so glad I stumbled upon this! I'm not sure if I get to call myself a plastic Samoan since I don't know any of my Samoan family members haha
Same but I’m 13 and trying to learn Samoan 🥰
Don’t give up keep going. At least your trying. Samoans appreciate you for at least having a go and you will get better with consistency. Remember immerse yourself in the language, culture, music and try to speak at least a few times a day and like with everything it will eventually become second nature. O le mea sili e te taumafai. Alofa
My parents did too. I've only just now starting to learn it also but in my mid 20's. My Aunts so far have taught me how to say "I love you".
suga you look and sound more samoan than i ever will omgg i could pick you out as an islander in any crowd and then people just ask me what i am because i don't look white enough but i don't look samoan at ALL
Samoan hair is so good!
I got slapped from a random Samoan lady in church who I didn’t know for not saying “Tulou” 🤦🏽♂️😂 Fellow plastics always say TULOU 😂
Been knew that. Aha ha velea
@@user-fk6cs7qv6m watts fia know it all haha its valea not velea!!! se Fia poko AHA
**watta**
On the face?
Now and then I always get people approaching me and usually start speaking to me in Samoan which I get totally lost in translation and usually respond with yup im good when i didn't even understand what they said.I know I definitely look Samoan but Im definitely plastic 100%.this video is really helping me understand the basics and respond confidently in samoan.I only just stumbled upon this clip and looking forward to subscribing.
I'm from Lithuania, Europe but damn Samoan is such a beautiful language ❤️ had an instant connection with it for some reason
Im Samoan Australian Aboriginal and Lithuanian my Dads Samoan And my Mum Lithuanian and Aborginal
I make someone and you are someone I like your videos
I’m a plastic tryna re wake my inner Samoan 😂
I'm a plastic Samoan 😂😂
same lmao
Dani Meredith same
I'm a wooden Samoan
Dani Meredith Oop I’m Samoan
Sameee I barely know Samoan
Not a plastic, but im super interested in the language and culture
I learned from a dna test My father was black and Samoan so now trying to learn about my culture. Tālofa!
Talofa :)
Seki, sending link to lil sis😅😅😅😂 lofaz
awesome resource Tyna thanks for uploading this and sharing your language and culture through your eyes
Just recently found out I have Samoan ancestry. Definitely wanna learn more about the culture. And phrases is a good way to start. Fa'afetai!
You done well girl thumbs to you most of the new generation these days don't wanna try our lingo stay blessed and happy living
Thank you!! my Nana is from Samoa and she want's me to learn Samoa
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
I should be learning my own language! cook island and tongan. But nah i wana learn samoan.
Who else is Samoan but barely understands? Raise your arm ✋
Don't worry, I was like that too. You can do it!
Tyna's World ok! Thank you
lmao. plastic here. i can say some basic sentences in samoan, but i still consider myself a plastic until i can speak fluently
Same here, I’ll still consider myself plastic until I can speak fluently😔
New subscriber! I love your intro haha
The part where you act like your mum saying Leai is hilarious... I’m just learning the language now I’m older but my grandmother would do the same thing to me when we were growing up but I never understood here. Haha this palagi is looking forward to learning my heritage and language. Great video
We all have to start somewhere. I'm still learning myself, the reason why I haven't put out more Samoan learning stuff.
my sister mocks me samoan pronounciation, and i mock her english pronounciation 😂
My sister mocks mine, but I can't speak english half of the time too. So I get mocked for that as well. Thanks for the comment.
I'm half upolu n half savaii but I can't speak samoa only English lol I try to learn our language thanks for sharing lol🥰🙏
My dads fluent in Samoan and it’s his first language , I can understand some but when I try and say it, it comes out so wrong 🤣😹 so now I’m trying to pronounce and learn more Samoan so I can be fluent 😅
Why did this help
“Maybe” in Samoan is “masalo.” It also mean probably.
Haha, a very much needed video! Cheers!
Imagine getting recommended this as a plastic 🤣
lol nice video. Kept cracking up when you were freshing out in the beginning lol
I have a bad habit of responding to Samoan in Te Reo Maori. That's like responding to Dutch in English. That's how plastic I am.
Can’t help that I was born and raised in LA. #plasticpoly
im 15% or more Samoan and my great grandmother told me that she wants me to learn fluent Samoan before she passes
Im a fob. Whats a plastic?
21 gottem Me, imma plastic 😂
@@tynasworld3243 Lol
@@tynasworld3243 A very pretty tiene too
A plastic means that your half something and half Samoan
@@tynasworld3243 LMAO 😂
Sorry but couldn't get past the long intro ... maybe edit out the replay?
😂 SAMOA❤️
😂😂 "im one of those plastics"
Christina Penitito Iosefo ummmmm no you’re not
Kefe
I loved this! thank youuu hahah youre so fun XD
Omg im in love
i’m a mexican black trying to learn samoan
Fa'atoese - apologize
My dad told me that K is the original it was when the missionaries arrived in Samoa that they changed the k to t. From then on it was only those who were considered educated or of high satus (matai) used the T and ordinary villager's continued to use the K. That's why we continue to hear the K when ordinary villager's talk, and only hear the T in church, and matai formal ceremonies and when speaking to elders etc...
I was quite baffled at this, and still to this day I'm wondering if there are any Samoan elders who can rectify whether this is correct? ❤️
I'm not sure. But it does make sense, I'll definitely double check with my grandma. But thank you soo much for watching.
It's the other way around. Original Samoan is in T's and the missionaries introduced the K because when they were translating the Bible. For example, Christ is Keriso in Samoan. K wasn't the only letter added to the Samoan alphabet, but the H and R came with it as well. In colloquial speech the traditional T changes to K, the R changes to L, and the N changes to a G. It is easier to speak in k, l, g because all speech is done in the back of the throat rather than T, R, N which are all in the front of the mouth. The traditional T is used for written Samoan, prayers, speeches (church speeches not cultural speeches which are spoken in K's).
Tolfa o a oe?
The word for maybe is masalo. When people change from T to a K , K is when you speaking informal and T for formal like when you hear a pastor talking.
I know the basics and I knew most of this. I’ve visited and lived in samoa and savaii but i wanna be fluent. Am I plastic
A true plastic here😔💅🏾
Im pretty good at pronunciation in Samoan. Im māori
Your Samoan sounds pretty. Like it should be heard in the airport in NZ lol
Hey im also samoan i also can tell you are cause you have that similar voice also malo also means bye i can't spell samoan words sorry ik im also plastic lol anyway sevies hope i spelled that right sevies is shoes i knkw how to say it its just i can't really spell i have 1 question do you get mad at people when they say samoa wrong they say the o like how its not suppose to sound hope that makes sense i am actually samoan not lieing im also learning spanish
Sevae is shoes I know because I learnt how To read but im not fluent ,I just can't have a conversation 😂
@@fiagloriatavui6987 same i know just some words
Thank you i try my best
heyyy, yeah there are some days where I just leave it because I can't be bothered trying to explain to the person how to say Samoa. Thank you so much for the comment.
Haha you think you look adopted? My mom and her dad come right out of Leone American Samoa and i must be whitest Samoan ever born!
Talofa Teine aulelei
Hi iwould really love to learn the Samoan language azwe have samoans at work but can't talk English so iwould love 2 learn he Samoan language so me and my coworkers can talk your beautiful language ❤❤❤❤❤ican only talk te reo maori and English
I might do another video on it. I'm currently learning, but hopefully you learned a little off my video.
malo sis.
"Wingapo" 😂 she went from teaching my plastic ass Samoan to Powhatan ❤️🤙
Those moments when ur nana is talking too her girls after church and they try talking Samoan too you not knowing ur plastic 💀🤣🤣🤣
mum says that most islanders cant pronounce their p’s n they come out sounding like b’s so we tested it on dad and it was true
Seriously what is it is about samoans they make you grin from ear to ear and just fall in love straight up
Major plastic right here . 💀
i'm samoan
wa lelei lea mea, kua aka ya lekeinge!
Lmao 😂 the beginning is hilarious
maybe can be used like "I think so" which is "Masalo"
*Oute masalo
Im from american samoa
I’m a plastic lmaooo I mean, I understand Samoan but I can’t speak it back smfh
I adopted Wong Yukhei Don’t worry, I’m the same!!
I'm not plastic.. .. Just need a reminder😂😂😂
If plastic means a Samoan that can't speak Samoan fluently or that well than damn imma Plastic😂
"tulou"🙇🏽♀️
I speak samoan and I am from somoan
Hey hey😂malo my plastic lads😌💕
(For the plastics) lmaooo!😂 im on the right video lol
Your samoan is much better than your English. Your English sounds like it’s a second language.
Thanks I'm plastic XD I am growing up with my Māori side.
I'd rather be called a coconut than a 'plastic' samoan. Who came up with that idiotic term?
h3ll0gudbye the Samoans 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️
Her "igilisi" no good. Lol
fah i cant w the title
I’m just a Tongan learning samoan🤣🤔
Malo tuafafine... hopefully I said what I think I said😂
Oi sole lmao
MALO TINA, NOT TYNA, IT ULI HERE.
Thank you Uli
❤️
so if my Samoan accent sounds like the Rock does that qualify me as a "plastic" smh...im so ashamed hahaha se keste FA'AMALOSI EWWSO'S lol
maleek da sneek HAAAAAAAA I JUST SEEN THAT VIDEO FROM THE ROCK 🤣🤣 clownin 808
@@godlyblitz4382 hahaha FAAMALOSI BRO 🤙🏾🤙🏾😂😂
Me a plastic :p
I'm a plastic haha
Here’s another plastic!! 😂
Plastics UNITE!
My grandfather was the chief of Apia and I only know a few words and phrases 😂😂 imma disgrace
Damn you beautiful !
I’m a Samoan I live in nu-ulie
Plastic? that's a racist slur. Ethnic identity is defined by family decent and blood relations not weather somebody speaks a language or not.
The Samoan language doesn't have its own written language and has to borrow the European Latin alphabet what a sham.
Learn some respect most pacific peoples in western nations do not speak their mother tongue because of generational dispute and intermarriage into other ethnicities.
The fact when you have kids+grandkids+great grand kids you can't bet 100% of your family will speak your mother tonge let alone 50% at all. Its a real shame pacific people wish to divide their own race into who is real or not when they're obviously wrong as ethnicity is 100% defined by blood decent and blood relations.
The fact that most pacific people don't live on their own home island and live in the palangi western world makes them plastic right?
According to you persuasion of definition it does only folk who live on the islands are real just like people who hold this whole 'speak your language or you're plastic' opinion are stupid very stupid.
Calvin, how is she being disrespectful? And where did you get your "generational dispute and intermarriage" about "most pacific people" not speaking their "mother tongue"? I'm a Samoan man who was raised in New Zealand and the reason a lot of the kids, don't speak the language is because English is the prevalent language used in everyday life period! Now when our generation have children, we will more than likely speak to our kids in English, because it is easy and then the language gets lost which is quite common. Also, I agree with what she is saying at the end where when someone who wasn't raised in the Islands try, then no one is really willing to help or they will be mocked teased which makes them no longer want to continue. I don't even know if you're from any Polynesian Island, but you sound arrogant and un-educated buddy!
+Fuamau'u Taito "Now when our generation have children we will more likely speak to our kids in english which is easy and then the language gets lost which is quiet common" Exactly a generational dispute of weather the next generation will speak the language or not. FYI there is a thing called bilingualism and many NZ born islanders are raised this way. Also many island families in NZ and western nations don't dare to live this way that is such a dispute I hint at. Apologies my 1st comment wasn't a personal attack on her its an In Your Face everyday example toward islanders who are of the opinion that any western islander not speaking their mother tonge is 'plastic' people need to grow up and stop that way of thinking it is abusive if anything.
+Fuamau'u Taito OK where do I appear arrogant and uneducated? Please explain. What I said in my 1st comment is 100% factual. You had even asked me to repeat myself (yes you did) when I had already shared my view on how the language is lost through generations in the 1st comment.
@@calvin6705 Well, when I read your "generational dispute", I was of the understanding that you meant something else but you just came across as "arrogant" with your comment. Anyways, are you even an Islander? What makes you so knowledgeable in this area?
+Fuamau'u Taito Yeah ghee islander born and raised south Aucks. I've just had the comments thrown at me growing up 'plastics this! n that!' the sky is falling right ppl need to chill especially when a 'plastic' is held in lower esteem looked down upon and this way of thinking has crept into nz island culture.