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Gillian | Share your why
Posted by Gillian Olivier · February 19, 2024 9:46 PM
This is my new home and I want to understand the culture, tikanga and reo of my new friends. -
Aria | Share your why
Posted by Stephanie Palmer · February 19, 2024 10:17 AM
I want to speak te reo Māori naturally within our whare and community for my tipuna, for my mokos, for my tamariki and for myself kia mau te reo Māori -
Matthew | Share your why
Posted by Matthew Smith · February 19, 2024 10:03 AM
Kia Ora -
Aria | Share your why
Posted by Cherie Brewer · February 17, 2024 3:58 PM
I feel it is crucial for people inhabiting a place that is not their own, to learn basic language, history, arts and culture to better appreciate the land and people and also learn more about who they are. -
Georgia | Share your why
Posted by Helen Francis · February 16, 2024 5:19 PM
I want to speak the language to engage with those who don't speak English but are New Zealanders just like me. -
Aroha | Share your why
Posted by Aroha Ngaropo · February 15, 2024 2:52 PM
Kia ora e te iwi -
Kauri | Share your why
Posted by Cristina Omine · February 14, 2024 11:43 AM
I think is important to know the owners of the land that I'm living on, their vision, their culture, so we can understand better. -
Roelant | Share your why
Posted by Roelant Dewerse · February 13, 2024 8:45 PM
I have lived and worked in several countries, and have always sought to be influenced by their culture and language as this makes my world larger. -
Conrad | Share your why
Posted by Conrad Waitoa · February 13, 2024 1:53 PM
Kia ora! -
Aria | Share your why
Posted by Laura Buchan · February 11, 2024 10:40 AM
I want to be able to learn te reo and share what I learn with others -
Raiha | Share your why
Posted by Raiha Johnson · February 10, 2024 11:06 PM
We were proud to learn this new waiata as a kura especially for te wā tuku reo Māori. -
Charlotte | Share your why
Posted by Elaine Denton · February 06, 2024 10:08 PM
The last time I heard te reo Maori fluently was from my Papa. -
Andrea | Share your why
Posted by Andrea Crawford · February 06, 2024 7:13 PM
My why is my children, both Maori. -
Alana | Share your why
Posted by Alana Brodrick · February 06, 2024 6:22 PM
Being maori is in my heart, I want a greater connectedness to my culture, and to my people. -
Mia | Share your why
Posted by Maria ( Mia ) Carroll · February 06, 2024 6:23 AM
Toitū Te Tiriti. -
Kit | Share your why
Posted by Celeste Barcham · February 06, 2024 4:21 AM
Kia ora i have done many studies in Maori and still can't speak fluently or confidently wanting to do some more learning and practice my te reo -
Maria | Share your why
Posted by Maria Sutton · February 05, 2024 5:43 PM
I want to connect with my iwi and my Marae . -
elke | Share your why
Posted by elke haakma · February 03, 2024 2:48 PM
To know my countries language, to support, to grow, to educate myself and my whanau -
Ben | Share your why
Posted by Ben McHardy · February 03, 2024 12:38 AM
My Māori friends and family have suffered immensely from discrimination, both personally and at the hands of the compounding effects of colonial violence and intergenerational wealth. -
Aditi | Share your why
Posted by olga pleijte · February 02, 2024 4:21 PM
Better understand the culture -
Ashley | Share your why
Posted by Ashley Faleafa · January 30, 2024 9:54 PM
To help strengthen my knowledge in Te Reo Māori so I can share our beautiful language with others. -
Tina | Share your why
Posted by Tina McLeod · January 30, 2024 7:54 PM
As a proud kiwi. -
Elliott | Share your why
Posted by elliott day · January 29, 2024 11:20 PM
To better understand this wonderful culture! -
Leah | Share your why
Posted by Leah Langdale · January 29, 2024 12:30 PM
Mo tāku tamāhine -
Ben | Share your why
Posted by Ben Sutton · January 27, 2024 8:14 PM
I'm new to the country, having just moved over from the UK with my wife (NZ citizen). -
Shona | Share your why
Posted by Shona Dunn · January 26, 2024 3:33 PM
My husband, children and grandchildren are Māori, for me personally it's about being able to extend the little reo I have and to hopefully in time korero Māori with them at some level, and a huge thing for me is not to be afraid to use what I do know. -
Tania | Share your why
Posted by Tania Westphal · January 26, 2024 5:49 AM
I want to be able to kōrero with my pāpā. -
Jordan | Share your why
Posted by jodie appleton · January 24, 2024 5:04 PM
I have lived in Aotearoa now for 13 years and am an educator. -
Amaia | Share your why
Posted by Alicia Taylor · January 24, 2024 9:51 AM
I'm finally being brave enough to start my reo journey, after so many years of procrastinating about it! -
Mia | Share your why
Posted by Milena Paula Da Silva Pereira · January 23, 2024 8:43 PM
I'm not from New Zealand, I've only been living here for four years, but I've fallen in love with the Māori culture, especially as it reminds me of my country and makes me feel less alone. -
Amanda | Share your why
Posted by Amanda Cockburn · January 23, 2024 3:33 PM
I want to learn te reo so I can speak and write more than a word and teach my mokopuna from a young age to hopefully inspire them to continue a te reo maori journey -
Kelly | Share your why
Posted by Kelly Moehurori · January 22, 2024 2:33 PM
I'm at my next part of my journey now. -
Charlotte | Share your why
Posted by Charlotte Goddard · January 22, 2024 10:12 AM
As a kaiako, I feel its important to be a role model for my students, to continue to learn no matter what your age. -
Michaela | Share your why
Posted by Michaela Nicholas · January 17, 2024 12:49 PM
To be a better educator and to understand the Te Reo around me -
Chevelle | Share your why
Posted by Chevelle Davies · January 16, 2024 2:27 PM
Kei te pirangi au ki te ako i te maori mo aku tamariki me aku mokopuna -
Nika | Share your why
Posted by Nicola Woodward · January 15, 2024 6:21 PM
Simply because it's a privilege to call Aotearoa home. -
Aroha | Share your why
Posted by Amy Pye · January 15, 2024 7:23 AM
To increase my understanding of tikanga and my te reo Māori competency. -
Ruth | Share your why
Posted by Ruth Hill · January 14, 2024 7:19 PM
I was blessed to have a fabulous uncle, Selwyn Wilson (Ngāti Manu, Ngāti Hine), who taught my sister and I te reo, as well as incredible teachers in primary school in the 1970s who also taught us (thank you Mrs Hunia & Mrs Deuss). -
Claire | Share your why
Posted by Claire Fisher · January 13, 2024 5:22 AM
Kia Ora, . -
Santosh | Share your why
Posted by Santosh Sumesh · January 12, 2024 1:38 PM
I am a migrant worker in New Zealand, I appreciate and respect the culture and language of the land. -
clare | Share your why
Posted by Clare Sharrock · January 12, 2024 12:52 AM
I want to learn this language as my partner and his family are all Maori. -
Aroha | Share your why
Posted by Soyoung Kim · January 11, 2024 12:06 PM
I love to learn the Māori culture, language and their life philosophy. -
Hemi | Share your why
Posted by Hemi Thompson · January 10, 2024 9:12 PM
Born n bred in Australia,met up with other young Maori,we all in the same boat, all wanting to learn -
Ashley | Share your why
Posted by Ashley Te Whare · January 10, 2024 11:56 AM
Ko te reo te mauri o the mana Māori! -
Alice | Share your why
Posted by Alice Capper-Starr · January 09, 2024 8:08 PM
My inspiration to learn te reo Maori was my pakeha grandfather Norman Harry Capper-Starr who was a fluent reo Maori speaker. -
Amaia | Share your why
Posted by Casey Armitt · January 08, 2024 3:39 PM
Tōku reo, tōku ohooho, . -
Sel | Share your why
Posted by Sel Leigh · January 07, 2024 7:34 PM
I want my kids to grow up knowing reo Māori as normal, not begrudging the culture that is intrinsically woven alongside our own history. -
Litiana Marama | Share your why
Posted by Litiana Marama Tabua · January 07, 2024 2:13 PM
What is drawing me towards te reo is the tie to our ancestors. -
Sarah | Share your why
Posted by Sarah Revell · January 05, 2024 2:59 PM
Because it’s important to build my understanding of Māori culture, through the lens of Te Ao Māori and the tongue of te reo Māori. -
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 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 Whitney Nohokau · 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!
