Napela Center Published Books
Intensive Course in Tongan: Revised Edition
Eric B. Shumway
"I...express my wholehearted support...on the reprinting of this most valuable course in Tongan. One is encouraged in the knowledge that the Tongan language will be appreciated and understood through this book.
...Eric B. Shumway is the only papālangi I know that speaks Tongan so perfectly." - From the foreword by H.R.H. Princess Sālote-Pilolevu Tuita
"This text consists of 130 lessons, supplementary materials, conversational materials, Tongan proverbs and songs, specialized word lists, readings, and glossary. The lessons are written as a guide for students who want to speak and understand the Tongan language as it is currently spoken by the people of the Kingdom of Tonga. The lessons provide a systematic oral-aural approach to the study of the grammar and phonology of the language. Without treating exhaustively all the minor grammatical structures in the language, these lessons constitute an in-depth survey of idiomatic Tongan."
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"I...express my wholehearted support...on the reprinting of this most valuable course in Tongan. One is encouraged in the knowledge that the Tongan language will be appreciated and understood through this book.
...Eric B. Shumway is the only papālangi I know that speaks Tongan so perfectly." - From the foreword by H.R.H. Princess Sālote-Pilolevu Tuita
"This text consists of 130 lessons, supplementary materials, conversational materials, Tongan proverbs and songs, specialized word lists, readings, and glossary. The lessons are written as a guide for students who want to speak and understand the Tongan language as it is currently spoken by the people of the Kingdom of Tonga. The lessons provide a systematic oral-aural approach to the study of the grammar and phonology of the language. Without treating exhaustively all the minor grammatical structures in the language, these lessons constitute an in-depth survey of idiomatic Tongan."
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Moramona: The Mormons in Hawaii Second Edition
R. Lanie Britsch
"The second edition of MORAMONA takes the reader through 168 years of trial and triumph in this one-volume history of the Mormons in Hawai'i, from 1850 to the present. This new edition provides background on the pre-history of the Hawaiians, the remarkable story of the Utah missionaries working alongside Hawaiian Saints to build a new Zion in an island paradise--from the arrival of the first missionaries, the translation of the Book of Mormon into Hawaiian, and the settling of La'ie to the building of the La'ie Hawai'i and the Kona Hawai'i Temples. The story tells of the Church College of Hawai'i and BYU-Hawai'i, of the labor missionaries and the Polynesian Cultural Center, of Mormon Hawaiian musicians, of the Kalaupapa leprosy settlement and the Mormon experience there, and of almost countless Latter-day Saints who have given much to make the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints strong in the Islands."
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"The second edition of MORAMONA takes the reader through 168 years of trial and triumph in this one-volume history of the Mormons in Hawai'i, from 1850 to the present. This new edition provides background on the pre-history of the Hawaiians, the remarkable story of the Utah missionaries working alongside Hawaiian Saints to build a new Zion in an island paradise--from the arrival of the first missionaries, the translation of the Book of Mormon into Hawaiian, and the settling of La'ie to the building of the La'ie Hawai'i and the Kona Hawai'i Temples. The story tells of the Church College of Hawai'i and BYU-Hawai'i, of the labor missionaries and the Polynesian Cultural Center, of Mormon Hawaiian musicians, of the Kalaupapa leprosy settlement and the Mormon experience there, and of almost countless Latter-day Saints who have given much to make the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints strong in the Islands."
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