Te reo maori

Every small step you take to learn te reo rangatira is a stride towards cultural vitality. Know that your journey back to the language of your tūpuna is one of great significance 🖤 — Post description: A quote saying "A reminder that your journey back to te reo is a step forward for te iwi Māori."

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For Māori, learning te reo Māori goes deeper than learning new vocab words and sentence structures. Much deeper, in fact. As one of our followers shared on a post, "Pākehā take it in, while Māori are getting it out." So if you are feeling overwhelmed by all the baggage that might come with your learning journey, please know that you are most definitely not alone, and what you are experiencing is part of the process as you reclaim a language that has a lot of history and maemae attached to…

I find I am constantly looking for ways to improve my recall when learning Te Reo Māori. One of the more challenging aspects of the language is remembering ‘who is who’ when it comes t…

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