Intensive Course in Tongan: With Numerous Supplementary Materials, Grammatical Notes, and Glossary

by Eric B. Shumway

Text consists of 130 lessons, supplementary materials, conversational materials, Tongan proverbs and songs, specialized word lists, readings and a glossary" This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 093915448X
• ISBN13: 9780939154487
• Release Date: August 1971
• Publisher: Institute for Polynesian Studies
• Length: 760 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Excellent

A great book for absolute beginners. It has many examples of sentences in Tongan which helps a lot. I wish I had such books for other languages too

Best way to learn Tongan

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Learn Tongan Now!

I am so grateful for the book and audio cd's. I am now able to speak with those family members that were only able to speak Tongan. What a joy it is to be able to communicate in the native language of my ancestors and have a relationship with wonderful communication between so many more people now simply because of the tools I was given, The Intensive Course In Tongan book and audio cd's. A great investment!

Tongan Tapes

I found purchasing Eric B. Shumway's "Intensive Course in Tongan" tapes, very helpful as a student wanting to learn the Tongan language. Although buying the book with the tapes is a necessity. I found the readings on the tapes to be very clear and easy to follow along with. The reader gives you plenty of time to repeat after them, which is very effective in learning. Also the songs and readings are very entertaining. This is a good buy for a serious Tongan language learning student. Also these are the only Tongan language tapes I could find out there.

excellent introduction to Tongan

This is an excellent introduction to Tongan when used with the tapes. It introduces grammatical points and vocabulary in a well ordered format. It's a great book to use when learning "fakaTonga", the beatiful Tongan language.