The new report noted that this can manifest in various ways "including language anxiety and feelings of shame (whakamā) for ...

As Aotearoa continues to promote te reo Māori as a taonga and an official language, the research serves as a reminder that ...

Pages from the 1972 Māori Language Petition. Ko tēnei te Wiki o te Reo Māori – it’s Māori Language Week. It’s been 52 years since the landmark moment on September 14 1972, when Hana Te Hemara and her ...

Thursday 14 September 2017 - Between 1973-1979 Richard and Nena Benton led the first sociolinguistic survey of te reo Māori in New Zealand. Publications from the research include a set of 143 booklets ...

Microsoft Corp. is excited to announce the inclusion of te reo Māori in its Microsoft Translator application, which will enable instant translations of text from more than 60 languages into te reo ...

Te Petihana Reo Māori was delivered to Parliament on 14 September 1972. Credit – Stuff Ltd. Sir James Henare’s words, “Kua tawhiti kē to haerenga mai, kia kore e haere tonu. He nui rawa o mahi, kia ...

A mainstream Rotorua school is ensuring all its teachers can speak te reo Maori in an effort to better reflect its community. Owhata School teachers will be taking te reo Maori classes this year as ...

In a first for Ōtautahi, Mākete REO, a te reo Māori speaking market is being held in Lyttelton on Sunday March 16. Organised by Te Rōpū Wāhine Māori Toko i te Ora ki Rāpaki, the Rāpaki branch of the ...

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori is every week: Julie Hollis and some of the children at the Old Schoolhouse in Rotorua. Photo / Ben Fraser I think Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori has been tū meke. It has been amazing ...

A recent report into one kura in Christchurch – Te Pā o Rākaihautū – found its physical buildings remain in poor condition ...

In te reo, with an active verb the subject is doing the action; in the passive an action is being done to the subject. Photo: Supplied In the previous column, on variation in sentence patterns in te ...