Unuhia te rito o te harakeke, kei whea te kōmako e kō? Whakatairangitia - Rere ki uta, rere ki tai; Ui mai koe ki ahau he aha te mea nui o te ao, mākū e kī atu he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.

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Why I chosen to learn my own language again, now that I have my own tamariki and that they go to school learning its time I start learning and sharing to my own at home.

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It's my birth right to speak the language of my ancestors.

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It's a giant part of who I am and where I come from, it's part of my whakapapa - even if growing up I was constantly told by everyone else that it wasn't.

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He taonga te Reo; na te mea e hiahia ana ahau ki te maarama Ngā mea nui ki Maori ; me matua korero au i te reo rangatira, te reo Maori.

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I dont want our beautiful reo to be lost, our tikanga our who we are to be lost.

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it's important to me because my mother was punished for speaking Māori and if I don't learn and encourage my daughter to learn then who will uphold our tikanga and run our Marae with the customs our tipuna fought so hard to uphold its up to us to keep it alive!

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I love learning te reo.

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Learning Te Reo Māori to enhance myself with better understandings, teaching my babies our beautiful language, making sure we embrace, embark and encourage our babies that our Language is our Culture.

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As a Pakehaa born In Aotearoa - Te Reo Maaori has a special place in my heart and soul.

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I moved to Aotearoa from England in 2005.

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I want Maaori to be widely spoken.

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Its about remembering growing up with a Nan that spoke in te reo - so understanding reo is easier than speaking it.

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Nā te mea e pirangi ana au i te tuhi I ngā waiata i roto i te reo rangatira rawa atu.

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I am definitely part of the Te Reo Movement because I did not learn Maori growing up.

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Te reo Māori has uplifted and strengthened my Māori identity and my wairua.

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Toi te kupu, Toi te mana, Toi te whenua

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I'm American and have lived in New Zealand for 23 years.

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My blood is red, my skin is white.

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I'm learning Te Reo because I live in a bicultural country with two spoken languages, and so far I'm only fluent in one of them.

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Aotearoa is my adopted home: Although I wasn't born here, I want to embrace the taonga of te reo.

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Tena koe, ko Gill toku ingoa.

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To experience the wonders of another world, hidden in plain sight.

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Kia tangata whenua anoo ai too taatou reo.

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He reo aroha, tohaina tenei reo aroha .

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My grandmother's generation were forced to speak a language that wasn't theirs.

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I’m Pākehā so I will always feel like a guest in Aotearoa.

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Maaori is a beautiful language that's embedded within a beautiful culture steeped in values of respect, inclusion, integrity and aspiration.

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Te reo Maori enables me to connect.

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I am 57 years old, a 5th generation Pākeha tane, ( i love being called Pākeha, i am definitely NOT white, rather a ruddy pink and orange ginga maybe).

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Being a Maori who has recently returned to NZ from 23 years abroad, I feel the need to catch up with the te reo which is now being spoken more and more in Aotearoa 😍

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I am a first generation kiwi from Dutch heritage.

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We have a beautiful language and culture.

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I lived overseas for a long time and wanted to reconnect with my homeland when I returned.

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Kia ora Why am I learning te reo Māori? - he taonga te reo, our language is so very precious! I'm learning because my language is me, it's a huge part of who I am & because I love my beautiful language! 🥰 Why it's important to me - it's important to because it's a part of me & because our language was in jeopardy of being lost so I have a responsibility to help restore & revive it to a thriving nature Why sign up to be a part of Māori language movement - as above, I will strive to be involved with anything & everything promoting te reo Māori

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I believe te reo is unique and distinct to Aotearoa, it is the first language of these islands, and as such it is a taonga and should be compulsory as a subject from early child education upwards, just as the English language is.

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I want to be able to converse and understand our reo rangatira.

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I'm 64 years old and can't even put a sentence together and when someone speaks or writes something in tereo I can't understand most of what they are saying I feel dumb

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I am learning for my matua who wouldn't speak te reo because he was beaten for it and for my mokopuna so he grows up standing tall, knowing his culture and language is something to be proud of.

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To be confident and competent while I’m teaching our future tamariki of Aotearoa.

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There are numerous number of reasons: ▪︎One of the three official languagesof NZ.

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Because it is apart of my culture and I want to stay connected to it

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Would love to engage with whanau on our marae

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Because as a New Zealander who went through the education system in the 70's and 80's, I feel let down about the monocultural world view I was provided, and am embarrassed at my own lack of understanding of New Zealand history.

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Kia Ora.

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I started to learn te reo Māori about six years ago, because a friend and I were leading a preschool music group and wanted to make sure we were pronouncing the reo correctly in names and songs with the kids.

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To enrich my life and philosophy.

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As a Pākehā, I have been welcomed into wonderful spaces again and again and again as I learn te reo Māori, as I learn about te ao Māori.

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To make up for a missing part of my NZ identity.

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Te Reo is the official language of Aotearoa, it is the language of land I am privileged to live on, work on and learn on.

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I am learning te reo because it is one of New Zealand's languages and it seems respectful to honour our first people in this way.

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As a Pākeha I am aware of how much my people have taken from Māori.

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Because it is the language of our land, our whenua and our culture.

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Te reo & maoritanga are two of the most significant founding threads to the weaving of the human journey in these blessed remote south pacific islands.

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I am a Primary School Teacher in Aotearoa so I have a responsibility to use Te Reo Māori in my classroom, and around our kura, as much as possible because it is the indigenous language of Aotearoa.

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I'm learning Te Reo Māori to normalise it within my community.

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To acknowledge the fact that my parents brought us to New Zealand many years ago for a different life which has given us the chance to experience Maori culture and te reo Maori.

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Kia ora.

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I love understanding more about who and what we are as people in Aotearoa.

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Te Reo Maori is a right and a privilege it is important to access learning of Te Reo Maori then honor the privilege bestowed on us as Maori by our Tipuna to use the language to grow and enhance our use in and across our whanau.

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Its a bout inclusion for me.

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I think it's important for me (and everyone in Aotearoa) to be able to understand and speak some Te Reo.

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E ako ana ahau ki korero te re Maori, na te ma, i whakaaro au, he tino nui te korero me te reo i ora pai.

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I feel that as Te Reo is one of our national languages, it is important to know some words and phrases and how to pronounce the words correctly.

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It seems both pono me tika

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As a New Zealander it’s my responsibility to keep te reo Māori alive.

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Ko te ohaaki ō tōku matua te take mā tāku whāinga ki te whakahoki te reo rangatira ki tōna kāinga.

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I can finally express wahinetanga.

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To claim back te reo and tikanga Māori for myself and for my whānau

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Te reo Maori is the native language of the tangata whenua and as such it needs to be spoken by every person who lives here.

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It is my heritage and it is my duty to pass it in to my children and mokopuna.

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I am at a point in my life where I feel the time is right.

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I'm a classic example of a middle aged wahine who has Māori lineage but was brought up in a Pakeha environment and wishes Te Reo was as accessible then as it is now.

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I personally love learning te reo Māori because it’s like stepping into my tipuna’s world, how they connect, how they understood eachother, how they treated and love the whenua, how they loved, how they connected to the environment in all ways ❤️ Te reo Māori takes me to that place, I love it, it makes my soul happy, I feel my tipuna and I love every single moment of it.

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Ko te reo te mauri o te mana māori - Tihei Mauriora.

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I'm Niuean and I'm fluent in my language.

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It is part of our national identity and we need to treasure it.

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What drives me (us) to be a part of Te Reo Māori.

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For me, Te Reo encompasses Te Ao Maori completely - with Te Reo we have the culture, the history, the inclusion, and the ancestry.

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Why you are learning te reo Why am I learning te reo, because my tamariki have been educated through Kohanga, Kura Kaupapa, Wharekura, Wananga and now one is a qualified kura kaupapa Māori kaiako and the other is at Victoria University studying Māori.

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As a child growing up my mother never taught me or my bro and sis Te Reo, so I would like to try to talk my culture.

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As a primary school teacher I think it is important for us all to learn the Maori language.

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Te Tiriti o Waitangi is a bridge connecting Te Ao Māori and Te Ao Pākehā.

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As a new migrant in Aotearoa, and after four years choosing this land as a home.

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Because it can help me get a job and I actually enough getting to understand what is being said.

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Te Reo Māori is beautiful and important to me because this is our Identity and who we are as a people.

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Te Reo is important to me as it is language of the country I was born in.

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For my tamariki - for our future ❤️

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I believe that Te Reo is part of our NZ identity.

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Growing up I was exposed to little to no Te Reo Māori even though I knew it was important to my mother.

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I started as I needed a new thing to get my brain moving I am tutored by my son once a week so its a chance to connect with him on a regular basis

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I was not encouraged to learn te reo growing up .

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Ko Ben Nevis rāua ko Pūtauaki ngā Maunga te rū nei tāku ngākau.

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I started to see the Maori language as part of New Zealand's heritage during a train journey to the mountains which had an audio history of the area.

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Never was raised speaking te reo and now that I am home I am on my reo journey.

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Because it is essential for unity in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Mo te organga o toku pa harakeke

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Firstly, it is a beautiful language, Secondly, we need to honor partnership under the Treaty - this is such a lovely way to do that.

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Atamarie, My journey is very long and I have been in the zone of wanting to learn te reo since I started school in Auckland 40 years ago! I moved from Invercargill where it was Not a thing at all that I recall.

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