If you're raising kids outside of Samoa, keeping the language alive at home can feel overwhelming. Where do you even start?

Here are 5 words that naturally come up every single day:

🏠 Fale — House/Home

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Aiga — Family

💧 Vai — Water

🍞 Mea'ai — Food

❤️ Alofa — Love

The trick is to use them in context. Point at the fale when you say it. Say "alofa" when you hug them. Kids learn best when words are tied to real moments.

I'm building a series of children's ebooks that teach Samoan vocabulary this exact way — through illustration, context, and repetition. The first one, My First Samoan Words: Home & Aiga, is out now.

What Samoan words did you learn first growing up? Drop them below 👇