Bula everyone, This is the online guide to learning Fijian. This along with the ... will be tools in your journey to learn to speak Fijian! There are many many different dialects spoken through out the islands however, this study via learntospeakfijian.com are in the universally spoken dialect of the chiefly island people of Bau island. For me, arriving to a point where I begin to understand and speak a completely foreign language did not come by osmosis. Sadly, simply just hanging around people who speak Fijian was not enough for me to learn the language. If you are like me, a proactive approach is what you might need! These lessons are a reflection of how I approached learning 4 different Pacific Island languages. Its easier for my brain to handle the influx of memorizing the new symbols and sounds of language by striping it apart as would an auto mechanic strips a car. What is your goal in learning Fiji? Do you want to just learn enough phrases to get by? Or are you a long term resident of Fiji looking to learn as much as possible? My goal in learning Fijian was to be able to be myself in any situation, to laugh and joke, to be respectful and courteous, and all the different feelings that can be expressed in your mother tongue. I am confidant that if you apply these lessons and exercises you will find your self comfortably understanding and speaking the language of the Fijian community. Good luck! Materials: This Blog will host as a place where you can view lessons but know that this program is a guide to show you how to learn Fijian. People living in Fiji should have no problem finding a native speaker to help you in your goal to learn. You can sit with them and ask them to translate your words and write them down in your journal. Even easier and accessible to everyone is your facebook friends. I didn't have facebook when I learned Fijian and you need to take advantage of this great tool. If you dont already, add several Fijians to your FB friends and let them know you need help translating words and sentences from English to Fijian. This is easy and it's saved in the chat bar so you can write it down in your Journal and paste it onto this webstie! Mentioned above is the use of a hard bound journal. This is your best friend and your relationship with your language journal will directly effect how good or bad you do in your study. If you just browse the website then you will learn very little. When you physically write down the words/sentences/proverbs/songs and other content here you physically burn those things on your memory.
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10/26/2011 05:31:45 pm
This is incredibly cool. Would love to have you blog on my site and join Fijiguide.com
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7/16/2012 09:04:00 am
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8/30/2012 06:07:47 pm
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Hey, great idea for a website. And I see Robert Kay (owner of a great Fiji travel blog) has already given his stamp of approval further up in the comments.
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3/22/2013 12:36:26 am
Bula!
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jack
6/4/2013 06:05:14 pm
Hi, the link for 'Start your first lesson' isn't working
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Tina
6/13/2013 01:51:09 pm
Thanks for this brilliant website! You may be interested to know that New Zealand is holding its inaugural Fijian Language Week from the 7-13 October 2013. Fijians here across the country are very excited about this as it marks a major milestone in this country! This is part of a series of Pacific language weeks that are now celebrated across the country every year. Sadly, many second and third generation Fijians in NZ don't understand and/or speak the language, and this is an opportunity to showcase various online initiatives, such as your website, as well as plan other activities to mark the event. Be great if you could come and join us during that week, so kids here can see how a non-native speaker like yourself can make speaking Fijian sound so do-able and totally cool! We would love to hear back from you and any other online or digital resources you've got. Great work!
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Clare Ryland
9/8/2013 09:10:02 pm
Please could you help us with my daughter's school project?
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Véronique
9/18/2013 11:32:58 pm
I'm not the owner of the website at all, but I can tell you that 140 is : duanadrau va sagavulu. I've spent 2 months in Fiji and learned some of the language. :)
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7/9/2014 09:07:15 am
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Harry Teng
7/11/2014 02:48:09 am
Hi, I'm looking for people who can translate a general health education brochure into Fijian, I've hit all regular professional sources, but Fijian is a small language (compared to, say, Chinese or French) so it's been hard to find people. Would anyone here happen to know any?
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7/13/2014 04:58:47 pm
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9/20/2014 12:46:05 am
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Hala'i
4/24/2015 07:19:21 am
Mahalo nui for your site. Been looking for something so I can understand fijian better and the audio is soooo helpful! Please let me know if there are any books you would recommend or whether there are other websites. The only hard part I've had is the inflection of speech. But I am so eager to learn!
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12/6/2015 08:35:02 pm
Thank you Stu for your great work.
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