{"id":1153,"date":"2020-09-19T01:33:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T01:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T08:30:08","slug":"my-annual-anxiety-as-a-monolingual-dinosaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/my-annual-anxiety-as-a-monolingual-dinosaur\/","title":{"rendered":"My annual anxiety as a monolingual dinosaur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1153\" class=\"elementor elementor-1153\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-69fac8a elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"69fac8a\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-60b7538\" data-id=\"60b7538\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3b06ee9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3b06ee9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Another September rolls around and Khylee Quince\u2019s anxiety as a non-reo-speaking M\u0101ori is in over-drive.<\/p><p>Pride and excitement at the increasing profile of Mahuru M\u0101ori and Te Wiki o Te Reo M\u0101ori clash head-on with the whakama, shame and frustration of being a monolingual dinosaur.<\/p><p>I\u2019m in that in-between generation \u2013 two generations removed from first-language speakers, with vague memories of my grandmother speaking the reo to her relations when we ventured north for school holidays. Kohanga reo and kura kaupapa schools were a few years behind my time.\u00a0<\/p><p>In the mainstream schools I attended in the 1970s and 80s, the reo was not taught, other than by correspondence for the one tenacious M\u0101ori girl in my year at high school. I think of her often and kick myself for not joining her, while I ploughed away in my inexplicable journey to learn French. I\u2019ve often imagined she\u2019s now a fluent speaker, with children who\u2019ve been bilingual since birth.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/pou-tiaki\/te-reo-maori\/122799429\/my-annual-anxiety-as-a-monolingual-dinosaur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the full article here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m in that in-between generation \u2013 two generations removed from first-language speakers, with vague memories of my grandmother speaking the reo to her relations when we ventured north for school holidays. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenge-stories","tag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}