My Mother was Irish and her Father was fluent in Irish and taught the language. I know that they had to live through times when their own language was forbidden and their names had to be anglicised for all official documents. This made me angry every time I thought about it. We are blessed to have te reo Maori as an official language in this country and we must take every opportunity to preserve it. My te reo is not good and I want to improve on it. I would love to be fluent one day. Taking the first step is always the hardest.
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