How much maori do you know?
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Topic: How much maori do you know?
Posted By: Rachael21
Subject: How much maori do you know?
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 9:45pm
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I'm just curious as to how many of us know more than just the few well used words.
I used to know a bit as a child but don't know much now. I wouldn't mind doing classes at some point in the distant future. I hope my kids grow up knowing a bit more than me 
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Posted By: Rachael21
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 9:47pm
| Oh yeah and how often do you speak it? |
Posted By: james
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 9:49pm
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i,m like you rach i knew heaps as a kid but only little bits now and then would love tolrean how to speck maori and pass it on to my sun ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 9:52pm
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Quite a lot, altho I read much better than I speak which is more a confidence thing. I use simple words with the kids but that's about it. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: jack_&_charli
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 10:17pm
my kids know more than i do! ------------- http://www.alternatickers.com"> 
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Posted By: kebakat
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 10:22pm
| I don't know much and never ever use it. No one in my family or friends do so I've never had like a reason to. Even the part of my family that is Maori and heavily involved in the marae don't really associate with us because we are white |
Posted By: emz
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 10:55pm
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I learnt it at TCol for 3 years and have taught it at school. I can say my mihi but would be a bit rusty after nearly a year of no practise.
Once I get on a roll I'm fine and I think I'm pretty good at my pronunciation, but seeing as I'm not teaching I'm not using it everyday at the moment so I'm losing it a bit. Jack and I have a few waiata that we sing frequently, just some of my favs from TCol that we sang before every class. RachandJack - quite often there's cheap Moari courses at the high schools that offer the community classes (Hagley, Hornby, Linwood (?), Hillmorton etc) which I've heard are pretty good. |
Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 11:06pm
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I use a couple of words regularly but its because when we were younger, my sister and I really liked the way the sounded and adopted them .
We use: (please excuse me if I spell them wrong, as I said we learned them phonetically, off Suzy Cato  )
Pene-rakau - Pencil Wini - Window Patero - Fart Mimi - Wee's Hapu - Pregnant Puku - Tummy Motoka - Car Pukapuka - Book Wharepukapuka - Library Moe - Sleep ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: kiwisj
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 12:58am
I don't know nearly enough, and any I learnt at school/uni is lost in my dusty brain while I'm living overseas 
A bit OT, but kinda related - how about how google.co.nz is now in maori too!?! V cool, you can change it over with one click. I'm going to leave ours on maori for a few days and see if DH notices 
http://www.google.co.nz - google ------------- SJ Callum - Dec 2008 Daniel - Oct 2010 |
Posted By: MrsMojo
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 8:18am
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I don't know much either. It wasn't really pushed at school when I was a child but I do know a few rhymes, my colours, some body parts, how to say hello/thankyou, how are you?, my tribe (ngati pakeha - not hard to remember) and a few other commonly used words (kai, moana, aroha, whanau, whenua, kia kaha etc). I'm working on learning and using it more because I think the moari language is a very important part of our heritage as NZers and I want moari to be as simple and accepted to Michaela as English is so I need to continue using it. She already knows the body part names in both english and moari, I think we'll start on her colours next. -------------  
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Posted By: lilfatty
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 8:47am
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I tell Issy her bodyparts in maori ... and I sing her the colour song and other little maori ditties that I remember from when I was little.
Apart from that I can get the "gist" of whats going on in a marae ... but wouldnt feel comfortable speaking in front of fluent speakers. ------------- Mummy to Issy (3) and Elias (18 months) I did it .. 41 kgs gone! From flab to fab in under a year  http://www.femininefitness.co.nz/category/blog - LFs weight blog
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Posted By: AuntieSarah
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 8:53am
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I know quite a bit from doing my teaching degree, mainly only words and phrases, and can say a few sentences. Couldn't have a conversation in Maori though. I'm getting rusty though, now that I'm not teaching anymore I don't use it very often.
I definitely want to use it as much as I can when baby comes along, want it to just be a normal thing for them to use some Maori. ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: CuriousG
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 8:59am
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I only know a few words, DH knows more than me. But we don't use it ever. We have no maori in our family except an adopted Uncle but even he doesn't use any. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Deez
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 9:10am
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I know a bit and speak short simple sentences to Lycan which he understands. Not as fluent as i would like to be considering i was fluent as a child being brought up by my grand parents -------------  
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Posted By: Andie
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 9:10am
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I learnt barely any at school - my high school had very little focus on anything Maori, and looking back they had a bad attitude about it, so I did a language paper at Uni along with some other cultural ones, and loved it. I don't regularly use Maori though (used it more at work than home) but as I want Ella to be really comfortable with the language I need to start throwing a bit into our conversations! ------------- Andie |
Posted By: queenbean
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:50am
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I did a Te Reo course at Te Wananga O Aotearoa last year and it was really good fun. Our end of year assessment was a 5 minute speech in Te Reo which mainly consisted of reeling off our pepeha/whakapapa. Aside from DH and I, there was only one other pakeha in the class, we made such good friends with everyone and were always considered part of the whanau!!! Highly recommend it!
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Posted By: Jay_R
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:58am
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I don't speak it as such, as in I can't hold conversations in Maori, but I know lots and lots of words and rhymes, and I use them a lot with Joshua.
If I ever get the time spare I hope to do a night class in Te Reo. |
Posted By: BuzzyBee
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:09am
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I know next to nothing when it comes to the Maori language, never been a need for me to really learn. I quite like that show 'Whanau' ...I try and pronounce some of them.
But tbh my limit is 'Puku' and 'Kia Ora' ...I refer to tummy as Puku when i speak to Lucas. With time I might try and learn a couple of other words to use with him but for now I'm happy just speaking English (and half the time I struggle just trying to think of words in my language LMAO ...damn baby brain) ------------- Single Mum to a darling wee boy of 3 years :) |
Posted By: NeoshasMummy
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:17am
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Im terrible, I don't know much at all as I have no Maori in me but even so my mother is Malaysian and I know NONE of that either hehe.
Im trying to pick up bits and peices to teach Neosha and also I want her to learn about the protocols and stuff because with DP having a Maori family I feel like a real doushbag when they are doing or saying things I don't understand :) I did learn a litle in school but thats all long gone from my brain ------------- https://secure.fertilityfriend.com/home/30c4ec/" rel="nofollow">  Mrs Te Kani ❤️ Neosha 26/5/2007 |
Posted By: yummymummy
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:41am
Kia Ora 
yeah, that's about it really  ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: my2angels
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 1:16pm
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I know the basics, just what you learn at school. Ive often thought to learn it though.
ive just come from Maori day at preschool. Kobes class have been practising the haka and some other songs all week then the parents and grandparents were invited along to watch them and we had a hangi. was really cool, there was even a photographer from the paper there. |
Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 1:26pm
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I know a bit, can have a basic conversation with someone. I know Dh doesn't like it but I do use a number of words with the boys at home. I come from Ngai Tahu and decend from on of the chiefs that signed the Treaty so I feel it is important for the boys to learn it. I am learning it at Massey as well. Well when I get back to palmy I will be back into it. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |