{"id":3494,"date":"2023-02-14T09:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T09:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2023-09-04T00:59:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T00:59:17","slug":"embracing-te-reo-maori-the-key-for-taranaki-grandmother-to-help-understand-her-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/embracing-te-reo-maori-the-key-for-taranaki-grandmother-to-help-understand-her-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Embracing te reo M\u0101ori the key for Taranaki grandmother to help understand her identity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A lightbulb moment about identifying as a \u201cNew Zealander\u201d led to grandmother and radio station manager Anne Dawson enrolling in Te Reo M\u0101ori studies at Te W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa in 2021. She began with the beginner programme, He P\u012b Ka Pao (Levels 1 & 2), then went on to complete He P\u012b Ka Rere (Levels 3 & 4), the intermediate te reo M\u0101ori programme. Anne hopes that sharing her te reo M\u0101ori journey will inspire others to start their own.<\/p>

Only a toddler when she came to live in Aotearoa, Anne grew up with little knowledge or contact with M\u0101ori people, language or culture. She learnt a little at school in the 60s and 70s, and again during teacher training, but struggled to understand the relevance in her life. It was not until Anne read a novel about colonisation that she realised the importance of indigenous culture worldwide and M\u0101ori culture in Aotearoa.<\/p>

\u201cNow that I\u2019m older \u2013 and I hope wiser \u2013 I came to realise that if I\u2019m going to call myself a New Zealander, I need to know what that is, and that includes knowing and understanding te ao M\u0101ori and te reo M\u0101ori.\u201d<\/p>

At 63 years old, she decided that it was now or never, and so she enrolled at Te W\u0101nanga o Aotearoa. Learning a new language has proven to be challenging; however, Anne has committed to speaking te reo M\u0101ori to the best of her ability. She now has the confidence to encourage others to use correct pronunciation whenever possible, especially on the airwaves in her role as Station Manager for Access Radio Taranaki.<\/p>

The highlight for her through her journey has been the other learning that goes alongside te reo M\u0101ori.<\/p>

\u201cI\u2019ve loved learning and hearing about the connection to the whenua\/ the land, and nature\/ Te Ao. I\u2019ve never had as many lightbulb moments before as I\u2019ve had in the last few months.\u201d<\/p>

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\u201cNow that I\u2019m older \u2013 and I hope wiser \u2013 I came to realise that if I\u2019m going to call myself a New Zealander, I need to know what that is, and that includes knowing and understanding te ao M\u0101ori and te reo M\u0101ori.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-challenge-stories","category-reo-maori"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mahuru-maori-twoa-ac-nz.azurewebsites.net\/mao\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}