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Ngā Karere me Ngā Rauemi
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Ngā Karere me Ngā Rauemi
News and Resources
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Te Rangaihi Reo Māori
The Movement
Te Rangaihi Reo Māori
The Movement
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Our Community
Te Pae Kōrero
Our Community
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Learning Pathways
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Ana | Share your why
Posted by Rhonda Paton · January 05, 2024 11:28 AM
Im doing this for my whānau and especially my mokopuna. -
Adam | Share your why
Posted by Adam Northgrave · January 05, 2024 9:12 AM
I want to be able to korero in te reo Māori and feel a greater connection to the whenua -
Nike | Share your why
Posted by Nike Rosenthal · January 03, 2024 4:10 PM
All my life I have struggled with my identity. -
Sharon | Share your why
Posted by Sharon Porteous · January 02, 2024 8:27 PM
I'm Maori, never been around the reo so want to learn more. -
Nettie | Share your why
Posted by Nettie Harrison-Stow · December 30, 2023 9:50 PM
Aotearoa is a beautiful place because of Te Ao Māori and I want to learn more and be as good a Tiriti partner as I can -
Rob | Share your why
Posted by Rob Warrender · December 30, 2023 10:30 AM
The opportunity to learn all I can will strengthen my foundation as an individual and in turn help me to help my family strengthen theirs. -
Sam | Share your why
Posted by Hedley Wilton · December 25, 2023 6:32 PM
To help grow appreciation for te reo and spread its use within Aotearoa -
Marian | Share your why
Posted by Marian Anderson · December 25, 2023 8:40 AM
Maori is a beautiful language of the indigenous people in this country and we have a duty to preserve the culture and language of those who came before we came here. -
Susie | Share your why
Posted by Susie Fieldhouse · December 23, 2023 6:49 AM
I have been living in Switzerland for the last 8 years, in that time I have struggled to learn the Swiss German language, however am getting there. -
Karen | Share your why
Posted by Karen Whiu · December 22, 2023 2:45 AM
Te Reo Maori is part of who I am. -
Jolene | Share your why
Posted by Jolene Horua · December 20, 2023 7:06 PM
MY "WHY" is for my "CHILDREN" and "MOKOPUNA". -
Anthony | Share your why
Posted by Anthony Peihopa · December 19, 2023 7:23 PM
I am 34 years old, been a lost soul that whole time. -
Jean | Share your why
Posted by Jean Yern · December 18, 2023 10:55 AM
For my whānau -
Coralie | Share your why
Posted by Coralie Bodley · December 18, 2023 9:40 AM · 1 reaction
Ka waiata tahi ahau rātou ko te roopu Te Kākano - te puna reorua kei Onepoto nā Te Whānau Tupu Ngātahi o Aotearoa. -
bayley | Share your why
Posted by bayley corfield · December 18, 2023 9:39 AM
Our team has been opening and closing our hui with the Switched On karakia! -
Florrie | Share your why
Posted by Florrie Karini · December 18, 2023 9:39 AM
My workplace will be celebrating all week we have, activities, waita, shared kai, Reo phrases. -
Theresa | Share your why
Posted by Theresa Bird · December 18, 2023 8:16 AM
I struggled with my identity for years. -
Marie | Share your why
Posted by Marie Reilly · December 17, 2023 4:31 PM
My sons are maori and I want to encourage them to learn so it will be passed down to my mokos. -
Cat | Share your why
Posted by Cat Railey · December 17, 2023 4:14 PM
Language holds the stories of our cultures. -
Pat | Share your why
Posted by Pat Koia · December 17, 2023 4:02 PM
I feel that's been missing in my life -
Mackenzie | Share your why
Posted by Stuart Faulkner · December 17, 2023 3:53 PM
Am married to the most amazing Maori woman and after decades travelling the world, we've come (back for her) to NZ to retire and so I want to learn the native language. -
Jessie | Share your why
Posted by Jessie Bryant · December 17, 2023 2:59 PM
I want to learn te reo maori as we grew up with very little to no maori influence and now that im grown up I feel like I have something missing. -
Adair | Share your why
Posted by Adair Davis · December 17, 2023 2:18 PM
I grew up in the 50s, my grandmother referred to my maori neighbours as darkies as my older sister still does. -
Taane | Share your why
Posted by Taane Karena · December 17, 2023 2:09 PM
Ko Taane Karena tāku īngoa . -
Nicky | Share your why
Posted by Nicky Bees · December 15, 2023 9:55 PM
I am so proud to be Kiwi and have the opportunity to encourage Te Reo to be an integral part of my learning more about the culture. -
Francesca | Share your why
Posted by Francesca Benocci · December 08, 2023 8:10 PM
I came to Aotearoa almost ten years ago to pursue a PhD thesis that became “Whāine: an annotated anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand women poets in Italian translation”. -
Janine | Share your why
Posted by Janine Davis · December 04, 2023 6:05 PM
On 1st December 2023, over 1,500+ tamarki from 17 schools from Ōtaki to Paekākāriki performed at Ngā Purapura. -
Leo | Share your why
Posted by Leo Van Lin · October 20, 2023 5:46 PM
My working project is, to help revive Maori Traditions. -
Derek | Share your why
Posted by Derek Haakman · October 17, 2023 11:02 AM
I've returned to Aotearoa after living in Australia for 20 years and I'm amazed at how Te Reo Maori is being so widely embraced.
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Jessica | Share your why
Posted by Jessica Starr · September 28, 2023 6:34 AM
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Free | Share your why
Posted by Free Nathan · September 27, 2023 3:56 PM
I will flood my spaces with Reo. -
Tessa | Share your why
Posted by Tessa Thornton · September 19, 2023 12:38 PM
Why? to keep connected. -
Richard | Share your why
Posted by Richard Wells · September 19, 2023 9:15 AM
Ko taku mihimihi tuatoru tenei. -
Juliana | Share your why
Posted by Juliana Venning · September 19, 2023 6:55 AM
Whanaungatanga me mokopuna. -
Terri | Share your why
Posted by Terri Hughes · September 18, 2023 4:34 PM
Two entries for our childrens Hei Tiki competition. -
Frederick | Share your why
Posted by Frederick Paratene · September 16, 2023 1:00 AM
Well (whenua Borewell)firstly I must honour the Lord, io,-ihowa-e ihowa-first and foremost,then as if my sins be forgiven-repent to,(Greatest Commandments Love the Lord God with all your heart,with all your mind,With all your soul,And to Love your neighbour. -
Jason | Share your why
Posted by Jason Williams · September 15, 2023 8:57 PM
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Wahanga | Share your why
Posted by Wahanga Yates Wright · September 15, 2023 6:57 PM
My why is my whānau❤️ -
Rizwaana | Share your why
Posted by Rizwaana Latiff · September 15, 2023 1:11 PM
Whilst i worked as a Midwife - i was intrigued by the karanga that was done at the time of the birth. -
Haki | Share your why
Posted by Haki Wilson · September 15, 2023 11:32 AM
Mahi rotarota te mahi : ) -
Haki | Share your why
Posted by Haki Wilson · September 15, 2023 11:28 AM
Tono Kawhe te mahi! -
Charlotte Harata | Share your why
Posted by Charlotte Harata Franks · September 15, 2023 10:31 AM
Tēnā koe ko Te Mana Ora - Community and Public Health Unit ki Waitaha. -
annie | Share your why
Posted by annie meredith · September 15, 2023 10:10 AM
My why. -
Priscilla | Share your why
Posted by Priscilla Davis-Ngatai · September 15, 2023 9:19 AM
Yesterday our Business and IT centres shared a boil-up to initiate conversations in te reo Maori around cooking and eating kai. -
anahera | Share your why
Posted by anahera west · September 15, 2023 8:59 AM
My why is to keep up reo with my daughter so we can both continue to learn. -
Nicolette | Share your why
Posted by Nicolette Fisher · September 14, 2023 10:28 PM
I would love to develop my confidence in speaking te reo to inspire and encourage tamariki in my classroom to speak more te reo confidently too : ) -
Mahora | Share your why
Posted by Mahora School · September 14, 2023 10:07 PM
As a kura we want to ensure that we enhance the revitalisation of te reo Māori, for our tamariki, whānau, community and also ourselves. -
Lucy | Share your why
Posted by Lucy Marr · September 14, 2023 9:25 PM
To continue on my learning journey so my Reo flows. -
Patena | Share your why
Posted by Patena Tupe · September 14, 2023 9:06 PM
When I was young at school people use to make fun of my surname and first names there was even a horrible experience where my teacher (Maori) also made fun of one of my names these experiences built a sense of insecurity and loneliness and a shame of being maori as I grew older I allowed people to mispronounce my name because I was to ashamed to correct them or make a joke about it too ease my insecurity and anxieties so I began to deny my own identity just fit in . -
Liana | Share your why
Posted by Liana Abraham · September 14, 2023 8:31 PM
Today our senior kapa group performed at our community library for parents and their tamariki alongside the Waiata group. -
Dean | Share your why
Posted by Dean Riley · September 14, 2023 8:19 PM
I want to help celebrate the taonga that is te reo Maori! -
Haki | Share your why
Posted by Haki Wilson · September 14, 2023 7:56 PM
Mooku ake, ko ooku tuupuna e kore i whaiwaahi atu ki te ako me te kooreo i too taatou reo me aku uri whakatupu te tino puutaketanga o tooku reo rangatira! -
Ruruhira | Share your why
Posted by Ruruhira Newbery · September 14, 2023 7:34 PM
Kei te pānui māua ko māmā -
Mandy | Share your why
Posted by Mandy Down · September 14, 2023 5:35 PM
It’s time to be part of the reclamation movement. -
Anne | Share your why
Posted by Anne Barclay · September 14, 2023 5:29 PM
Living in Aotearoa I am surrounded by a rich and unique history experienced by the peoples of this land and to hear and understand Te Reo Māori provides another perspective and learning that I hope to share and speak with my moko one day. -
Tina | Share your why
Posted by Tina Renata · September 14, 2023 4:53 PM
I te poupoutanaga o te rā, Ka timata mātou ko ōku hoa mahi i tō mātou wā tuku reo i te mātakitaki i te whakaaturanga Ko Speak No Māori. -
Sophie | Share your why
Posted by Sophie Manuel · September 14, 2023 4:50 PM
Learning Te Reo is long time coming. -
Marlia | Share your why
Posted by Marlia Morris · September 14, 2023 4:40 PM
It is a privilege to reside in this country, to be able to utilise and understand Te Reo Māori is one way to be able to respect that privilege. -
Paeroa | Share your why
Posted by Paeroa College · September 14, 2023 4:34 PM
Putting the mihi in there Haka ka mau te weehi koutou. -
Kiriona | Share your why
Posted by Kiriona Hapeta · September 14, 2023 4:28 PM
Spot prizes at Reds Cafe for customers that ordered in te reo. -
Paeroa | Share your why
Posted by Paeroa College · September 14, 2023 4:26 PM
Whaea Rosalie Nathan and whaea Teahoraurangi Pakinga at Paeroa College. -
Cheryl | Share your why
Posted by Cheryl Silich · September 14, 2023 4:26 PM
Pippa our Kerikeri High School volunteer teaching our residents and also led by one of our lovely Kuia - Kerikeri Retirement Village -
Paeroa | Share your why
Posted by Paeroa College · September 14, 2023 4:23 PM
Whanau watching Haka Wars. -
Paeroa | Share your why
Posted by Paeroa College · September 14, 2023 4:21 PM
Whanau night at Paeroa College -
Sarah | Share your why
Posted by Sarah McMillan · September 14, 2023 4:21 PM
I want to increase my matauranga and te reo maori to be part of keeping the culture alive -
Kiriona | Share your why
Posted by Kiriona Hapeta · September 14, 2023 4:18 PM
We also had our corner dairy happy to join our initiative! -
Kristi | Share your why
Posted by Kristi Field · September 14, 2023 4:10 PM
I want to improve my knowledge and understanding of Te Reo so I can better connect with my tamariki. -
Paeroa | Share your why
Posted by Paeroa College · September 14, 2023 4:04 PM
This is how we celebrated Te Wiki o Te Reo Maaori during assembly at Paeroa College. -
Kiriona | Share your why
Posted by Kiriona Hapeta · September 14, 2023 3:57 PM
Ballentynes were on board with our community initiative. -
Paeroa | Share your why
Posted by Paeroa College · September 14, 2023 3:57 PM
Ngaa mihi to Paeroa College rendition of Kura Te Winiwini a local Hauraki paatere, kia ora koutou. -
Terynne | Share your why
Posted by Terynne Mills-Barber · September 14, 2023 2:57 PM
E ngā reo. -
Kate | Share your why
Posted by Kate Akers · September 14, 2023 1:11 PM
I love learning about traditional Māori knowledge, history and wisdom through the joyful medium of waiata :) -
Stephanie | Share your why
Posted by Stephanie Kane · September 14, 2023 1:06 PM
Mo toku tamariki. -
Shantel | Share your why
Posted by Shantel Barrett · September 14, 2023 1:03 PM
Nau mai haere mai -
Sonia | Share your why
Posted by Sonia Tibble · September 14, 2023 1:00 PM
Learning more about Te Reo Māori and Tikanga lets me approach work and life in a different, and better, way -
samantha | Share your why
Posted by samantha higgs · September 14, 2023 12:59 PM
Ko te reo te mouri o te Māoritanga, heoi ka kōrero Māori au i i rā, i ia pō kia whakarauora mai i te reo rangatira. -
Hayden | Share your why
Posted by Hayden Barr · September 14, 2023 12:59 PM
Some members of our school gathered together for the National Event to perform our school haka and sing some waiata such as Te Taukea and Waitaha e. -
Jason | Share your why
Posted by Jason Tuhaka · September 14, 2023 12:59 PM
KIa ora tātou. -
Sara | Share your why
Posted by Sara-Anne Raea · September 14, 2023 12:47 PM
I want my tamariki to be proud of their culture and heritage and be able to move, connect, communicate and participate between te āo māori, te āo kukī āirani and te āo pakeha. -
Andrew | Share your why
Posted by Andrew Ford · September 14, 2023 12:47 PM
Learn my pepeha by heart and incorporate te reo phrases into everyday usgae -
Meremaihi | Share Your Why
Posted by meremaihi Gray · September 14, 2023 12:47 PM
I ako ēnei tamariki i tētahi karakia kai. -
Louana | Share your why
Posted by Louana Fruean · September 14, 2023 12:44 PM
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Cancer Society Waikato/Bay of Plenty | Share your why
Posted by Cancer Society Waikato/Bay of Plenty · September 14, 2023 12:43 PM
More than 20 staff and guests at the Cancer Society's Lions Lodge joined in to sing Te Aroha and E Minaka Ana. -
Tiffany | Share your why
Posted by Tiffany Bartlett · September 14, 2023 12:22 PM
I'm sharing this on behalf of Crescendo and my colleague Paki. -
Charise | Share your why
Posted by Charise Walter · September 14, 2023 12:17 PM
Our team are learning te reo maori as a group and we are using it in our work environment. -
Vanessa | Share your why
Posted by Vanessa Scholes · September 14, 2023 12:17 PM
Te reo Māori is distinctively woven through Aotearoa New Zealand's past, present and future. -
Nicola | Share your why
Posted by Nicola Carroll · September 14, 2023 12:16 PM
I love the whakatauki 'Ka mua, ka muri' - walk backwards into the future. -
Lucille | Share your why
Posted by Lucille Neho · September 14, 2023 12:15 PM
At BLENNZ we try our hardest to keep up tikanga and Reo Maori as much as we can. -
Mel | Share your why
Posted by Mel Pera · September 14, 2023 12:13 PM
Our whanau here at Mōkai Pātea Services, busting out our new waiata. -
Fiona | Share your why
Posted by Fiona Kingsford · September 14, 2023 12:11 PM
Te Reo Māori is Aotearoa, it is a Taonga -
Lilo | Share your why
Posted by Jonathen Tuiketei · September 14, 2023 12:09 PM
The language, the music and the traditions kept us grounded and always stays within us & the next generation. -
Lilo | Share your why
Posted by Kim Mackintosh · September 14, 2023 12:06 PM
Whanau having a practice of a kupu each day and a new one for each day. -
Neralie | Share your why
Posted by Neralie McConnell · September 14, 2023 12:05 PM
I am teacher and I want to improve my knowledge and understanding of te reo and make as many connections with my aakonga as possible. -
Rob | Share your why
Posted by Rob Thorne · September 14, 2023 12:04 PM
Te reo Māori is my heritage language. -
Hori | Share your why
Posted by Hori Chapman · September 14, 2023 11:57 AM
Ko Te Reo Maori, Te Reo Rangatira, te kaikawe i te honohutanga o te whakaaro Maori, whakaaro Rangatira. -
Andre | Share your why
Posted by Andre Kanara · September 14, 2023 11:57 AM
I decide to acknowledge Te Reo Maori because as I grew up, My whanau would always tell me how they used to get the shitere beat out of them just for saying hello in Maori. -
April | Share your why
Posted by April Te Awa · September 14, 2023 11:56 AM
He aha ai ki au?. -
Lii | Share your why
Posted by Lii Finai · September 14, 2023 11:39 AM
My tamahine is in the kapahaka group at kura and she is leading a couple of their waiata's. -
Aditi | Share your why
Posted by Jo Bentley · September 14, 2023 11:01 AM
To increase my knowledge in Te Reo -
Jodie | Share your why
Posted by Jodie Chapell · September 14, 2023 10:57 AM
As an immigrant, I understand the value of manaakitanga