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".…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…