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Interleaved Māori and English text
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Interleaved Māori and English text

I read an article recently titled "The New Old Way of Learning Languages". The article outlines a method of learning languages that involves reading texts in the target language with a literal translation of the text immediately below it in a language the reader knows.

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stranded Apr 27, 2022 • 3 min read •
"e...ana" vs "kei te" in Te Reo Māori
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"e...ana" vs "kei te" in Te Reo Māori

What's the difference between using the tense markers "e...ana" and "kei te" in te reo Māori?

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stranded Mar 22, 2022 • 6 min read •
Photos: Powerfest Summer Series #1
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Photos: Powerfest Summer Series #1

I tērā Rāmere, ka haere au ki tētahi konohete ōpaki, whakarongo ai i ētahi puoro, whakaahua anō hoki ai i ētahi tāngata puoro. Ko "Powerfest Summer Series #1" te ingoa o taua konohete ōpaki. I tū taua mea ki New Lynn Community Centre ki Auckland.

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stranded Jan 17, 2022 • 3 min read •
When to use 'e' or passives in commands in te reo Māori
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When to use 'e' or passives in commands in te reo Māori

I often see questions online about why some commands in te reo Māori have a particle "e" before the command, or why some commands are in a passive form and some are not. This post is my understanding based upon my class notes of why you choose one form over the other.

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stranded Jul 16, 2021 • 3 min read •
Book Review: Te Pūrerehua me Te Maunga
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Book Review: Te Pūrerehua me Te Maunga

I thought I'd review some of the books as I read them, and write about how easy or difficult they were to read for an adult te reo Māori language learner. The first book is "Te Pūrerehua me Te Maunga".

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stranded Jan 27, 2021 • 3 min read •
Types of Verbs in Te Reo Māori
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Types of Verbs in Te Reo Māori

In the te reo Māori class I attend we’ve been covering different types of verbs and how they affect sentence construction. This post is a tidied up version of my notes.

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stranded Dec 28, 2020 • 6 min read •
Practising te reo Māori listening comprehension
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Practising te reo Māori listening comprehension

I've started a process of active listening whereby I spend time listening, repeating and writing notes on a broadcast. This post has some of the process I go through for my active study.

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stranded Aug 17, 2020 • 6 min read •
Possessives in Te Reo Māori
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Possessives in Te Reo Māori

Possessives are for talking about who owns or controls something. Instead of "The Chair" or "The Chairs" possessives are for "My Chair" or "My Chairs", etc.

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stranded May 26, 2020 • 3 min read •
A Tahitian Legend of Hituaurevareva
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A Tahitian Legend of Hituaurevareva

Before Pitcairn Island was settled by the mutineers of HMAV Bounty and their Tahitian partners, it had been populated before by Polynesians and there are legends about the island. The Tahitian women that were with them knew of the island from legends and its older name, Hitiaurevareva.

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stranded May 24, 2020 • 7 min read •
Anki tips for learning te reo Māori
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Anki tips for learning te reo Māori

Anki is a spaced repetition learning application that is useful for helping to learn languages and other topics. In this post I'll go through how I use Anki to assist in my learning of te reo Māori.

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stranded Apr 13, 2020 • 9 min read •
Pronouns in Bislama
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Pronouns in Bislama

Bislama follows a system based on the Vanuatu native languages, similar to Māori, where the pronouns are gender neutral and they have different words depending on if the person or people being spoken to are included or excluded from the group identified by the pronoun.

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stranded Jan 15, 2020 • 3 min read •
Tim Ferriss’ sentences in te reo Māori
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Tim Ferriss’ sentences in te reo Māori

Tim Ferriss has a video about how he learns languages and one of the things he talks about is thirteen sentences he likes to learn in the target language...I've made an attempt at translating the sentences in te reo Māori,

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stranded Jan 4, 2020 • 3 min read •
Cook Island Photos from 2019
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Cook Island Photos from 2019

In January 2019 I was in Rarotonga and Aitutaki for a short period of time. I took some photos with a film camera I'd purchased a few days beforehand. These are some of the photos I took using Ilford XR2 400 film and Ilford HP5+ 400.

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stranded Jan 3, 2020 • 1 min read •
"au" vs "ahau" in te reo Māori
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"au" vs "ahau" in te reo Māori

There was a discussion in an online NZ Māori language Facebook group about the different forms of the first person personal pronoun - that is the personal pronoun that refers to "I, me" in English. The question raised was which form do people prefer - au or ahau.

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stranded Dec 31, 2019 • 3 min read •
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Building J from source

The J programming language has pre-built free to use binaries for different operating systems. This post outlines how to build a 64-bit version of J from source on a Linux based system.

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stranded Dec 30, 2019 • 2 min read •
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