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Sāmoa Language Week

Comparing some Sāmoan language sentence structures to the equivalent Māori language structures for Samoan Language Week.

An image of a forest scene with birds and rats surround a book spread open with writing in it.

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Learning Māori Through Reading

I've been reading about language learning via the natural approach, and decided to try writing some simple examples to help learn basic concepts.

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"waenga" in te reo Māori

Lets look at how to use "waenga" or "waenganui" to express the concept of "in-between", "amongst" or in the middle of something.

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Te Reo Māori Beginners Course Starting Soon

I'm teaching a Te Reo Māori beginners course through Learn Māori Abroad, starting on Sunday the 11th of June NZ time. The course runs for 8 weeks and is delivered over Zoom and covers the basics of Te Reo Māori.

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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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.