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What’s New Version 1.0.9
Polish update: refined text alignment for a cleaner, calmer layout, and small copy improvements throughout.
Description
Talanoa helps Aotearoa learners build confidence in Pasifika languages through short daily lessons, real-world scenarios, and culturally grounded learning.
Built for New Zealand communities, Talanoa focuses on language as connection: speaking with family, using greetings in church and community settings, and reconnecting with identity through real phrases that matter.
What you can do in Talanoa:
- Choose from Gagana Samoa, Lea Faka-Tonga, Vagahau Niue, Te Reo Kuki Airani, and Vosa vakaViti
- Start with short lessons, quick quizzes, and saved-phrase review
- Explore 42 topic libraries and 30 real-world conversation scenarios
- Learn practical greetings, introductions, family phrases, respectful expressions, and daily community language
- Use source-backed pronunciation guidance with syllable and sound notes
- Receive one daily culture moment for your selected language, with no guilt or streak pressure
- Track your streak, XP, lesson progress, and phrase practice
- Reflect through short guided practice prompts and journaling
Talanoa is designed to feel warm, approachable, and useful from the very first session. Whether you are beginning your own language journey, supporting tamariki and rangatahi, or reconnecting with family heritage, Talanoa gives you a place to start and keep going.
Talanoa is for:
- NZ-born Pasifika learners wanting to reconnect with language
- Families building daily language habits together
- Community learners who want culturally relevant practice
- Anyone looking for a respectful, beginner-friendly entry point
Our goal is simple: help more people speak with confidence, belonging, and connection.
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Privacy Policy: https://connectclinic.co.nz/privacy.html
In-App Purchases US pricing
Talanoa+ Subscription
Monthly · Monthly 7-day free trial$2.99
Annual · Yearly 7-day free trial$22.99
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Version history 8 versions
Build 887068735v1.0.92026-06-18 07:54:19
Polish update: refined text alignment for a cleaner, calmer layout, and small copy improvements throughout.
Build 887027553v1.0.82026-06-16 16:00:48
Smoother lessons and a faster Learn section. Polished the learning path, mascot animations, and overall feel, with bug fixes and stability improvements.
Build 886898595v1.0.62026-06-13 01:23:34
Faster Learn tab and smoother lessons. The bottom menu now tucks away during lessons, stories and quizzes so buttons are never hidden.
Build 886932005v1.0.72026-06-13 22:50:01
Faster Learn tab, smoother lessons, and your selected answer now highlights clearly. Tidier mascot and bottom menu during lessons.
Build 886810071v1.0.52026-06-11 17:17:55
A huge Talanoa upgrade:
• Brand-new lessons experience: one exercise at a time, with matching, word-building and type-from-memory
• New lesson path with units and milestones
• 15 new Tongan conversation lessons
• Phrasebook petals rebuilt with hundreds of real conversational phrases across all 5 languages
• Fresh look: new icon, new buttons, smoother animations
Mālō, fa‘afetai, vinaka — keep learning!
Build 886774053v1.0.42026-06-10 18:31:21
Biggest lesson update yet.
- The lesson path roughly doubled: every vocabulary topic now unfolds into multi-part lessons, so all your language's phrases are reachable - over 100 lessons for Tongan and Samoan learners.
- More checks per lesson: every phrase you study, you now get tested on.
- Unit progress rings and a gold crown when you complete a unit.
- Springier, more tactile lesson path.
- Cleaned up reading lists and fixed rough dictionary entries.
Malo e lelei - keep going, you're building something real.
Build 885544224v1.0.32026-05-12 17:20:11
New: Home Screen widget that shows a daily Pacific phrase from your chosen language.
Refined Home tab layout and visual polish across the app.
Build 884523041v1.0.22026-05-04 02:22:57
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Change log 12 changes · US
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Polish update: refined text alignment for a cleaner, calmer layout, and small copy improvements throughout.
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description updated
Talanoa helps Aotearoa learners build confidence in Pasifika languages through short daily lessons, real-world scenarios, and culturally grounded learning.
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Pasifika language journey
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Talanoa
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Version 1.0.9 released
Polish update: refined text alignment for a cleaner, calmer layout, and small copy improvements throughout.
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Version 1.0.8 released
Smoother lessons and a faster Learn section. Polished the learning path, mascot animations, and overall feel, with bug fixes and stability improvements.
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Version 1.0.7 released
Faster Learn tab, smoother lessons, and your selected answer now highlights clearly. Tidier mascot and bottom menu during lessons.
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Version 1.0.6 released
Faster Learn tab and smoother lessons. The bottom menu now tucks away during lessons, stories and quizzes so buttons are never hidden.
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Version 1.0.5 released
A huge Talanoa upgrade:
• Brand-new lessons experience: one exercise at a time, with matching, word-building and type-from-memory
• New lesson path with units and milestones
• 15 new Tongan conversation lessons
• Phrasebook petals rebuilt w
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Version 1.0.4 released
Biggest lesson update yet.
- The lesson path roughly doubled: every vocabulary topic now unfolds into multi-part lessons, so all your language's phrases are reachable - over 100 lessons for Tongan and Samoan learners.
- More checks per les
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Version 1.0.3 released
New: Home Screen widget that shows a daily Pacific phrase from your chosen language.
Refined Home tab layout and visual polish across the app.
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Version 1.0.2 released