I Want to be part of the drive to keep this beautiful language flourishing. It is so important for Aotearoa NZ - for the tangata whenua and us manuhiri - all of us who make up this nation - to be able to speak at least to some
Level, the reo that is only spoken here and through which we learn so much about each other. A friend in class last week pointed out to me that there are 16 ways of saying ‘our’ in te reo Māori (that we had learned by this stage in our journey anyway) vs 1 way in English. What does that reveal about what is important in Te Ao Maori? Relationships, relationships, relationships - or he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. It’s like an object lesson from within the reo itself. Beeeeeaaauuutiful!
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