{"id":2813,"date":"2021-11-19T03:12:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mahurumaori.com\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2021-11-25T03:17:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T03:17:01","slug":"learning-te-reo-maori-about-more-than-just-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/learning-te-reo-maori-about-more-than-just-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning te reo M\u0101ori about more than just words"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2813\" class=\"elementor elementor-2813\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6872269 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6872269\" 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-55d53cc\" data-id=\"55d53cc\" 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-e50be60 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e50be60\" 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>Learning the poetic M\u0101ori language and understanding tikanga M\u0101ori is an important part of being a New Zealander, says Nick Chin.\u00a0<\/p><p>Nick, who has Chinese and Irish ancestry, started learning te Reo M\u0101ori at Te W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa in Blenheim, where he studied He P\u012b Ka Pao, an introductory course to the M\u0101ori language.<\/p><p>The 38-week programme shows tauira (students) how to pronounce M\u0101ori words, names and place names. They also learn basic sentence structures, basic mihi (introductions) and waiata.<\/p><p>Nick says learning te Reo M\u0101ori was important for his mahi (work) in his former role as general manager of the Rangit\u0101ne Cultural Centre, helping him to better understand what was being said during mihi and while at tangihanga and other events where reo is spoken and tikanga is observed.<\/p><p>\u201cI really had not been exposed to the reo or tikanga at all when I landed the job as general manager so it was something I needed to understand,\u201d he says.<\/p><p>\u201cIt had been a lifelong ambition for me to learn te reo and tikanga, the reason for that was I had always found it was a beautiful language to listen to.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cThe more I understood it (te reo M\u0101ori) the more I realised there were so many layers, it was very poetic and multi-layered.\u201d<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twoa.ac.nz\/hononga-stay-connected\/news-events\/2021\/11\/18\/learning-te-reo-maaori-about-more-than-just-words?utm_source=mahuru-maaori&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=tikanga-hbltikanga3\">Read the full story on the Te W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa website<\/a>.<\/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>Learning the poetic M\u0101ori language and understanding tikanga M\u0101ori is an important part of being a New Zealander, says Nick Chin.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reo-maori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","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=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2818,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}