More teaching resources are needed to help Samoan children living in New Zealand connect with their language and culture, a senior civil servant has said.
Tupe Solomon-Tanoa’i, a foreign policy adviser with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks French, Japanese and Mandarin but says she has struggled to learn Samoan.
“I never made a conscious decision to not speak Samoan. I simply didn’t have access to it,” she writes in an editorial published by Māori and Pacific Islands online current affairs website, E-Tangata.
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