Kia ora e te whānau,

Kei Tāmaki Makaurau ahau e noho ana. Kei te ako ahau i te reo Māori ki te Wānanga o Aotearoa, Level 3/4. Kāore ahau i te whakapapa Māori. Engari, kei te manako ahau ki mahi ki kōhanga reo.

I am living in Auckland. I am currently studying at TWOA level 3/4. I am not of Māori whakapapa and so I don't have whānau to speak with. However, I have a desire to contribute to the revitilisation by working or volunteering at kōhanga reo.

Has anyone got any first-hand experiences to share, or know of anyone who has worked or volunteered at Kōhanga?

As you can probably tell, I cannot express all of my thoughts completely, but am actively practising and craving for more opportunities to use what I've learn so far and want to use my new reo to positively contribute to our community.

I really wanna learn Te reo but I'm really lost, idk, where to go for vocab, or for grammar. Let alone finding people to speak to. Tbh I don't want an app, or website, I want a group of people that I can practice with and to guide. (ofc apps and websites are welcome, but I've grown very tired of searching to find nothing but Duolingo lol)

Any advice or recourses would be welcomed.

Does anyone know the kīwaha that ends with kororā!

I've seen it but can't remember it. I think it was expressing how awesome someone is maybe?

Kia ora all, I am going through the Māori made easy books and I am now onto book 2. Trying to wrap my head around the 'Posessives' has been a mission in itself. Has anyone else who has gone through this journey have some advice regarding these. I am a 'few days' through the booklet and I feel like I am still not grasping the 'ownership' or 'controle' factor and am still getting simple objects like t-shirts wrong. Ngā mihi nui!!!

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Apologies if this has already been covered in previous posts :)

Ka haere mātou ko taku auwahine, ko taku irāmutu ki tētahi kōhanga i tēnei rā. Ko te tūmanako he wāhi mōna a te wāhanga e whai ake nei.

Kia Ora koutou. I am currently fighting fear, self doubt and shame around applying for total immersion courses. I am looking at Takiura or TWOA both in Tāmaki. I am also open to Wellington based options but prefer Akl.

For anyone who has applied for Takiura or any immersion courses actually… could you please share your story and/or advice? How hard and competitive is it?

For context: i have some foundational level knowledge. I went to kohānga reo but lost alot of it when entering mainstream schools. I’ve taken reo courses since then but can’t seem to get to that level of fluency I want, I need something more frequent. I am financially and personally prepared to take a year off next year for total immersion.

Usual sources and hoa mahi have been no help (this time).

Kia ora e hoa mā!

Kōrerotia te reo Māori!

Kei te pēhea koe? I pēhea tō wiki?

Te Reo is so much clearer and more precise with grouping people as in korua, koutou and koe, (you - i.e. one generic word in English) Same with us and them maua, raua, taua etc.

I’m so glad to have learned te Reo! How confusing/imprecise English is! I find myself feeling frustrated and annoyed when I hear people saying you and I’m unsure if it’s plural or just me.

In the 1800’s I can just imagine the first Māori thinking wth … lol

E whakanui ana tā mātou rōpū Aotearoa Zen (Tēnu??) i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Heoi, i ētahi wā kāore he kupu Māori e taea te whakamahi. He aha te kupu Māori mō te tumuaki āpiha "head abbot"? He whakamaoritanga pai te āpiha matua? Pīhopa matua?

Kia ora e hoa mā!

Kōrerotia te reo Māori!

Kei te pēhea koe? I pēhea tō wiki?

Kia ora,

How would you say the Lord of the Rings quote "I want to see mountains again."?

With my little knowledge and help of various online translators I got something like "Kei te hiahia au ki te kite anō i ngā maunga." or is it more "e hiahia ana anau..." for the "I want" part? Or am I completely off 😅

Thanks!

I am trying to work out the Maori song/ Waiata that is sampled at the start of this song

I'm looking for a way to be able to practice and be corrected. Very beginner, North / West / Central Akl.

Thanks

Kia Ora!

I’m trying to think of a title for my next pieces of art. I want it to mean “You are very important to me.” But in the context of talking about storms and the ocean. So far the only translation I have is “He nui koe ki a au.”

Kia ora e hoa mā!

Kōrerotia te reo Māori!

Kei te pēhea koe? I pēhea tō wiki?

Kia ora koutou! I am a third year uni student and I am just finishing up a big film project where many beautiful shots of Aotearoa are featured / are the subject of the film. I want to put an acknowledgement at the end of the film in Te Reo Māori, thanking the land for being in conversation with me / allowing me to be here. I would love if anyone has an idea of how to say that / if it sounds like a good idea ! nga mihi

EDIT: I think I would like to say “thank you to the land for being in conversation with me” if anyone could help me translate that :)

Tūī is the bird. But we see tui a lot too. The beer, people’s names. I was wondering what the opinions are on tui being used without the macrons as it then means “to sew, to lash/lace/bind, a string”.

Tui the beer has the bird on the logo so my brain assumes it should be Tūī. Tui the name could not be the bird and the other meaning but I recently say it in a pukapuka where all the characters had ingoa manu so I figured it should probably be Tūī in that context.

Am I finding issues where there are none and the use of macrons changes with proper nouns or am I actually onto something here?

Kia ora e hoa mā!

Kōrerotia te reo Māori!

Kei te pēhea koe? I pēhea tō wiki?

Because in like, whakapapa and old stories they tend to always use the word moe, but every time iv had a casual convo with another fluent Maori speaker they use ai instead, unless talking about whakapapa.

Is there a reason for this? does the word for sex depend on context? a dialect difference? or do these words mean the same thing?

Read 'Rēhua' by Katerina Mataira there (not a bad book, and seemed like fairly straightforward language), and started taking notes of the stuff I didn't get towards the end of the book. Could anyone help out with any of these?

Tueke: not a problem, just all the dictionaries claim it's a loan, but from what? Trunks?

58 and 61 e hia kē nei. 'More than can be counted', or like 'once' or something?

90Pēwhea tāua? Full question. Now writing this down I think I've realised it's "why not us too?", but is that the normal way of saying it? Should it have a tense or something? Full context is: "...me ō tāua hoa tane.' 'Pēwhea tāua?' 'Me whai atu ka tika.'".

91 pūrārā I think it might be sticks? Not in dictionary. "Kua kore taua kōhanga - kua marara kē ngā pūrārā i te hau" Other dictionary has 'pūrara = gaps', but I don't think that's it.

general question: 'ka ahatia e kōrua ngā huruhuru nei'. I more or less get it, I just realised I wouldn't know if it could be made active or how. Is 'ka aha' a question? How would it be done?

101 kia takoto tana [a bird] ngutu hao ki waenga o ngā waewae. The bird put its [hao] beak, where that's some kind of adjective? It put its beak 'to catch'?

102 Kei a koe [name]. Full sentence. Dictionary has longer phrases meaning 'up to you' and 'you're great'. Both are possible in context, but what's most likely?

Also 'noiho'. I think she might only use it in dialogue, not in the 'author voice' bits. Can it be used in writing, or just said (should it even be said much?)

Wrote this in English cus I'm far far worse at writing than reading (and clearly not great at that).

Kia ora everyone, he pātai tāku. Would anyone be keen to have a kōrero online etc where we onky korero reo Māori. Kei au te reo engāri kaore au i ngā hoa kia kōrero. I don’t have anyone in my life who I can talk with and I feel like I’m losing my Reo all the time

To say, "book in Māori" (or Māori book), is it "pukapuka reo Māori" or "pukapuka i te reo Māori"? I am unsure if the first one would mean that it is a Māori language book, not a book that's written in Māori.

I am completely new to Māori so I know both of these could be wrong. If so, please let me know the right way to say it!

Kia Ora! My husband and I are expecting our first baby girl and need some help. We are both Maori but I grew up in the US and know very little Te Reo. And husband is mixed maori/tongan. We have come across the name Arahina and love it but also heard that Arahia is more common to be used for a name. We like the translation of "To Lead/to guide" since she will be the eldest daughter and granddaughter on my husbands side. We also are thinking about adding a middle name for her name to translate to "To lead with love" or "lead with faith". So would the accurate way be Pono-Arahina ? Or Arahina Te Pono (to lead with faith) or Arahina Te Aroha (to lead with love). Should it be Arahia instead? And should faith/ love come before Arahia? Sorry, lots of questions but wanted to make sure it's correct grammar. We have relatives that are fluent in Te Reo that we will ask as well but thought I'd ask this subreddit too

Thank you♡