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Shanice | Share your why
Posted by Shanice Tredrea · August 26, 2024 8:11 PM
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Marlene | Share your why
Posted by Marlene Wilkinson · August 26, 2024 5:30 PM
Ko au te awa, ko te awa ko au -
Dee Jay | Share your why
Posted by Dee Jay Gray · August 23, 2024 8:38 AM · 3 reactions
Ko tāku wawata nui kia whakahoki mai te reo Māori i tōku nei whānau. -
Lynne | Share your why
Posted by lynne alexander · August 20, 2024 3:29 PM
To improve my kōrero. -
Tania | Share your why
Posted by Tania Pointon · August 16, 2024 2:09 PM
I want to live my "growth mindset" by learning Te Reo. -
Cinnamon | Share your why
Posted by Cinnamon Puna · August 14, 2024 9:21 AM · 4 reactions
Ko taku tino tūmanako, ka whakaoratia tō mātou reo rangatira i roto i tōku whānau me te hononga ki tō mātou Māoritanga. -
Justine | Share your why
Posted by Justine Te Moananui-Makirere · August 07, 2024 3:36 PM
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Jo | Share your why
Posted by Jo Mitchell · August 07, 2024 10:02 AM
I've lost most of my reo through not hearing it spoken around or using it myself over time. -
Skye | Share your why
Posted by John · August 06, 2024 10:20 AM
To keep the language alive -
Haylee | Share your why
Posted by Haylee scott · August 05, 2024 5:17 PM
Like to share one in million to have my own kapa haka kakahu and more reo Māori wa Katoa -
Zenaida | Share your why
Posted by Zenaida Beatson · August 05, 2024 12:23 PM · 1 reaction
Im there! -
Jae | Share your why
Posted by Jesse Brown · August 04, 2024 4:33 PM
I have grown up around Maori speakers and Maori practices throughout my life but I've only ever developed basic language and understanding. -
Adya | Share your why
Posted by Merle Callaghan · August 03, 2024 7:31 AM
Kia Ora! -
Tangimoana | Share your why
Posted by Tangimoana TeMoananui · August 02, 2024 10:36 PM
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Reihana | Share your why
Posted by Reihana Ria · August 02, 2024 12:39 PM
I would love to learn and be able to speak and understand the language. -
rochelle | Share your why
Posted by rochelle latham · August 01, 2024 1:59 PM
Kia ora, I'm just beginning as I have begun studying at Polytech. -
Alyssa | Share your why
Posted by Alyssa McCarty · August 01, 2024 11:44 AM
I started to learn Te Reo Māori because it is a big part of our cultural life here in New Zealand. -
Kaia | Share your why
Posted by Tiare Pomare · July 30, 2024 9:05 AM
Ko te reo kia rere, ko te reo kia Māori, -
Audra | Share your why
Posted by Audra Teepa · July 29, 2024 3:02 PM
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Hōne | Share your why
Posted by Jason OConnor · July 29, 2024 3:02 PM
To be a great future tūpuna myself, re-gain our reo. -
Lindsay | Share your why
Posted by Lindsay Wright · July 29, 2024 2:14 PM
I feel short changed, having been born and raised in Aotearoa, that I was taught no reo, tikanga or history - our own history - at school. -
Celine | Share your why
Posted by Christine Jessop · July 29, 2024 12:50 PM
I am a Principal of a Dual Medium Kura. -
Iain | Share your why
Posted by Iain Watkins · July 27, 2024 11:23 AM
In my position I am more and more required to participate in powhiri and karakia. -
Hui | Share your why
Posted by Bruce Abrahams · July 26, 2024 11:28 AM
I have a desire and need to speak to kaumatua on Marae -
Frankie | Share your why
Posted by Evelyn Ponga · July 26, 2024 9:53 AM
I want to reconnect with my whānau and my ancestors, and I think the best way to understand the culture is through the reo. -
Nicole | Share your why
Posted by Nicole Rayner · July 24, 2024 3:00 PM
Te whainga! -
Kiriana | Share your why
Posted by Kiriana hakopa · July 24, 2024 11:39 AM
I can't imagine my world without Te Reo Maori. -
Te Ao | Share your why
Posted by Arlo Bannon-David · July 24, 2024 3:42 AM
To be able to connect with my Maori friends -
Kiwa | Share your why
Posted by Maryanne Morgan · July 23, 2024 12:32 PM
Been born in the 60s I had a bad experience, thinking I was doing good with my Te reo at school. -
Rachel | Share your why
Posted by Rachel Binning · July 23, 2024 11:24 AM
Strengthens my links with Māori and their culture, and helps me understand Māori culture better. -
Cheryl | Share your why
Posted by Cheryl Heinamann · July 21, 2024 10:46 AM
As an immigrant I think it’s important to know an official language that is not English. -
Mary | Share your why
Posted by Dianne Carter · July 20, 2024 7:06 PM
My tamariki and moko are Maori -
Monica | Share your why
Posted by Monica Hine · July 20, 2024 5:43 PM
I want to be more in touch with my culture & my ancestry. -
Robert | Share your why
Posted by Robert Peden · July 20, 2024 10:30 AM
Kei te pīrangi ahau ki te tautoko i te Rangaihi Reo Māori. -
Kereopa | Share your why
Posted by Kereopa Cope · July 19, 2024 4:06 PM
Support whanau and hāpu -
Lilo | Share your why
Posted by Libby Rayner · July 19, 2024 12:04 PM
To inspire and support the kaiako in the kura I work alongside of. -
Ali | Share your why
Posted by te Kairangahau Mihaka · July 19, 2024 10:56 AM
My son was born here in Australia in his last year of school we sent him to Opanake Taranaki to have an experience and connect. -
Nell Ryann | Share your why
Posted by Nell Ryann Estrada · July 19, 2024 2:42 AM
I live in an island country that considers itself "Asian" but is actually Pacific Islander, both geographically (it is an island country in the Pacific basin) and linguistically (the native languages in the Philippines belong to the Austronesian family). -
Linda | Share your why
Posted by Linda Heffernan · July 18, 2024 9:33 PM
Kia ora I’m so proud to be a Kiwi and hope to embrace our culture in the best way I can. -
Anahera | Share your why
Posted by Angela Rongonui · July 18, 2024 9:08 PM
My son, my whānau, my tupuna, my whakapapa, my identity -
Nanetta | Share your why
Posted by Nanetta Knowles · July 18, 2024 7:58 PM
As a kid growing up in the 60s, 70s 80s this was not available to me due to my father's trauma of being scrutinized by the white world order and that we would not benefit speaking te reo. -
Aroha | Share your why
Posted by Tanya Jones · July 18, 2024 7:37 PM
I am proud to be a part of such a beautiful & unique culture as Aotearoa! -
Fiafia | Share your why
Posted by Fiona Salzmann · July 18, 2024 7:34 PM
I'm currently learning Te Reo thru my husband's iwi. -
Jan | Share your why
Posted by Jan Bone · July 18, 2024 7:33 PM · 2 reactions
To honour my mum -
Elizabeth | Share your why
Posted by Elizabeth Evans · July 18, 2024 7:30 PM
Ki te reo Māori he taonga nunui o Aotearoa -
Rose | Share your why
Posted by Rose Bygrave · July 18, 2024 7:30 PM
Learning Te Reo gives me a solid connection to Aotearoa -
Morehu | Share your why
Posted by Morehu Nikora · July 18, 2024 7:30 PM
He taonga tuku iho te reo, kia kaua e kaiponi te tuku o te reo engari tukua kia rere kau noa 😀 -
Rod | Share your why
Posted by Rod Philpot · July 18, 2024 7:29 PM
Looking forward to the new Olympic resources! -
Nicola | Share your why
Posted by Nicola Pye · July 18, 2024 10:17 AM
Language is such an important part of every culture! -
Jaynee-Ann | Share your why
Posted by Jaynee-Ann Te Kani-Pikia · July 17, 2024 5:22 PM
Hei painga mo aku tamariki mokopuna -
Sue | Share your why
Posted by Sue Poynter · July 17, 2024 12:32 PM
I am now 73 and have been involved in education for over 50 years. -
Mahingarangi | Share your why
Posted by Mahingarangi Mahia Tutauha · July 17, 2024 12:25 PM
I'm maori and want to learn more -
Aroha | Share your why
Posted by Abby Collier · July 16, 2024 10:31 AM
Our tamariki attend kura kaupapa and we want to support and encourage them to use te reo maori at home, so they can see, we will catch up to them eventually. -
Pāpā Rāwiri David | Share your why
Posted by David Tolich · July 16, 2024 9:52 AM
Kia ora e hoa mā. -
Pua-Ai | Share your why
Posted by Pua-ai Kiriona · July 16, 2024 3:30 AM
Our tipuna endured so much suffering during the colonization. -
Sheree | Share your why
Posted by Sheree Dewbery · July 15, 2024 1:28 PM
To ensure our Māori culture and language are preserved and available for years to come. -
Analatu | Share your why
Posted by Analatu Wolfgramm-McKay · July 15, 2024 11:34 AM
Ko āku mokopuna -
Merenia | Share your why
Posted by Merenia Gotz · July 15, 2024 8:38 AM
Taku purakau - he roa. -
Tangaroa | Share your why
Posted by Thomas Rickit · July 14, 2024 4:59 AM
I want to really learn Te reo Maori as I was brought up in both pakeha and Maori. -
Jude | Share your why
Posted by Jason Marsh · July 13, 2024 9:33 AM
Tena tatou katoa kua tae mai nei i tenei wa ki te whakarongo korero i ahau. -
Wirihana | Share your why
Posted by Wirihana Wilson · July 13, 2024 3:47 AM
I am my reo and my reo is absoultely and always will be whakapapa to my ancestors and to my mokopuna and so for. -
Kara | Share your why
Posted by Karen Owen · July 12, 2024 7:38 AM
If we embrace Aotearoa’s culture and people, the motu becomes stronger, happier and unified. -
Mikayla | Share your why
Posted by Mikayla Fleming · July 12, 2024 3:56 AM
Kia Ora mai tātau. -
Avery | Share your why
Posted by Alley West · July 11, 2024 8:48 AM
It's important for everyone living here to learn. -
Qamaruddin | Share your why
Posted by Qamaruddin Mahar · July 11, 2024 3:45 AM
Hi, my father lived in newzealand and he used to tell us about Maori people. -
Deb | Share your why
Posted by Deb Brightwell · July 10, 2024 6:51 AM
My tamariki and mokopuna are Māori and my why is to keep Te Reo alive for my mokomoko, to stand in their ‘why’ and be proud of who went ‘before’ them. -
Bev | Share your why
Posted by Bev Thatcher · July 09, 2024 6:56 PM
Te reo is important to me as a European New Zealander. -
Cheyne | Share your why
Posted by Cheyne Hunapo · July 08, 2024 7:19 PM
To uphold my Nans wishes and For the future generations to come. -
Bevan Maunganui | Share your why
Posted by Bevan Maunganui Tamati · July 07, 2024 4:07 PM
I have to keep up with te reo maori so i can pass the language down to my Daughters then they can also carry on the Reo -
Aroha | Share your why
Posted by Aroha Rangi · July 07, 2024 3:27 PM
Everytime I go home and hear our tamariki, whānau korero Măori I have tears of joy -
Kiri | Share your why
Posted by Kim Anderson-Smith · July 07, 2024 12:18 PM
Having been brought up in both Pakeha and Maori worlds, I relied on my Pakeha side at a younger age as it seemed easier to get 'ahead', and my Maori heritage has a lot of negative energy towards it based on my upbringing. -
Dave | Share your why
Posted by Dave Bradshaw · July 04, 2024 11:56 PM
Kia ora,
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Mikr | Share your why
Posted by Mikr Fuge · July 03, 2024 12:34 PM
This is part of my family’s heritage through my wife and children’s whakapapa- its important I connect to that -
Jaylin | Share your why
Posted by Wiremu Pahau · July 03, 2024 9:50 AM · 1 reaction
Growing up the only time te reo was heard was at marae , tangihanga. -
Jessie | Share your why
Posted by Jessie Armstrong · July 02, 2024 11:58 AM
I was raised in kohanga from a baby, Te Reo is my first language, but as I grew up I was slowly but surely colonised and whitewashed. -
Mekhi | Share your why
Posted by Mekhi Pierce · June 30, 2024 5:53 PM
Growing up I was never taught Te Reo Māori and have a growing hunger inside me to learn Te Reo Māori which hasn't been spoken in my Whānau since my Great-Great Grandparents who did not teach their Tamariki, Te Reo Māori -
Arvind | Share your why
Posted by Arvind Dullabh · June 29, 2024 6:13 AM
I was a teacher at Tipene(St. -
Larissa | Share your why
Posted by Larissa Cook · June 27, 2024 2:19 PM
Hello my name is Larissa Cook i am grateful recovering addict i am 29 years of age and i have a 11 year old daughter who is standing next to me in the beautiful picture of us two. -
Ella | Share your why
Posted by Ellis Gibson · June 26, 2024 2:29 PM
To keep the language alive -
Jorge Bo | Share your why
Posted by Jorge Bo Smid · June 25, 2024 1:57 AM
I was given the breath and knowledge of the Mana in Pohara Marae Maungatautari -
raju | Share your why
Posted by raju kosireddi · June 24, 2024 8:26 PM
My son would like to join tee-ball because he says its fun -
Lily | Share your why
Posted by Lily Ann Arahanga · June 22, 2024 12:57 PM
He kaiako au ki Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Wairarapa nā reira ko te manako nui kia pakari ake tōku reo Māori hei whāngai atu ki a mātou ākonga. -
Phoenix | Share your why
Posted by Doreen Hokai · June 22, 2024 11:05 AM
To be included -
Poppy | Share your why
Posted by Kelly Pye · June 21, 2024 7:28 AM
My family have been in NZ for 7 generations. -
Glyn | Share your why
Posted by Glyn MacLean · June 20, 2024 7:35 PM
Learning the Māori language preservers the culture and this is an important part of what it means to be a New Zealander. -
Ari | Share your why
Posted by Marihi Langford · June 20, 2024 11:37 AM
Wanting to be fluent in the reo and share with my mokopuna -
Anahera | Share your why
Posted by Marie Tutahi · June 20, 2024 5:55 AM
I am one of the generation that was never taught the reo. -
Kaia | Share your why
Posted by Hinehou Mita · June 19, 2024 11:38 AM
Tōku reo, tōku ohooho! -
Pāpā Rāwiri David | Share your why
Posted by David Tolich · June 18, 2024 2:35 PM
Kia ora Ko Pāpā Rākuāwiri David Tolich. -
Delwyn | Share your why
Posted by delwyn fraser · June 16, 2024 10:13 AM
I love everything Maori, I cannot speak Maori but I love singing Maori Waiata :) -
Filemu | Share your why
Posted by Ie Nua · June 15, 2024 7:32 PM
Want to learn our national language. -
Anahera | Share your why
Posted by Ange Couper · June 14, 2024 9:31 AM
My why is for all our babies "ngā rangatira mō āpōpō". -
Amaia | Share your why
Posted by Kendall Owen · June 13, 2024 6:22 PM
I want to do this to not only make myself proud but my future children. -
Zoe | Share your why
Posted by Julia Morgan · June 12, 2024 12:54 AM
I’m learning te reo Māori because our shared Māori and Pākehā history is something to be proud of and something all New Zealanders should celebrate. -
Julie | Share your why
Posted by Julie Fenton · June 11, 2024 9:54 AM
Wanting to pronounce correctly and show respect to the language -
Kiwiroa | Share your why
Posted by Kiwiroa Marshall · June 07, 2024 11:59 AM
I've been living overseas for over 30 years now. -
Allen | Share your why
Posted by Allen Wright · June 06, 2024 7:21 PM
Ever since attending Whatawhata school in the mid 1940's I have had an interest in Maori but never pushed myself into learning the language, but now in my twilight years would like to have another try, unfortunately my very close Maori friend lives in Napier and Scotty Morrison pointed out to be successful you really need the right environment and that is why I have turned to you people for advice -
Anaru | Share your why
Posted by Anaru Morgan · June 05, 2024 10:27 AM
Tēnā koutou. -
Tania | Share your why
Posted by Tania Smith-Henderson · June 05, 2024 8:17 AM
Kei te ako au mō āku mokopuna. -
Suzie | Share your why
Posted by Suzie Sauer · June 01, 2024 8:18 PM
I want to improve my te reo māori to assist the revitalisation effort.
