For a language to survive, it must be spoken. This has been a regular catch cry of Māori language advocates, but today, it came from a Japanese student learning Māori at Victoria University in Wellington. She spoke with Kereama Wright.
Tau kē! I stumbled across this video today, and she's definitely awesome and inspiring for someone like me - I'm Korean and I just started learning te reo at uni this year. It's honestly so much fun. I can only hope that more people (tauiwi like me included!) jump on board. If not us, then who? And if not here in Aotearoa, then where, right?? :)
She understands it's more than just a language, it's the wairua which Maori are in short supply of without the language, which lead so many down the wrong path. To deny the teaching of Te Reo is to deny the necessity for Maori existence.
She's been in the country for a year and pronounces better than 99% of paheha kiwi who have been here 200 years LOL how embarrassing. Paheha cant eveñ say kia ora right they are very lazy.
I would agree with bob bob to some extent, however he did go off a bit on a rant. However the issue of having mandatory teaching of a language like te reo in schools is a complex one. You can't really force it onto anyone when the language itself does not benefit you greatly in most of society. Believe I think it is greatly beneficial when it comes to Māoridom itself and New Zealand heritage and culture, but it wouldn't benefit you within other societies. I not saying that it should not be encouraged, I'm all for more teaching of te reo, however to have it be mandatory when it will not give you skills that you will need for future jobs I can't agree with. Plus we all know what making things mandatory can do to us, I wasn't good at maths and absolutely hated it.
@@kiritawhai7488 that is the most elitist thing I've ever fucking heard which mitigates the work of colonization, racist structural systems as well as ignores the hard work of young maori people today that are working hard to keep it alive. You win no points today.
Good for you dude! white kiwis(paheha) are very lazy they cant even pronounce place names in nz and they been in nz for 200 years. Yet every other foreigner embraces the culture when they visit and can pronounce better than paheha.
I am still mourning the wide spread loss of our peoples native tongue.2 generations before me no te reo spoken.the chain was broken...so sad.not just my fathers side,but my mothers too.
It is, Was my First language while growing up, unfortunately during my time of schooling,it was beaten out of us if spoken on the school's ground's,But at college we had German Latin Greek Spanish as a choice subject,no Maori,even up to the 70s NZ fround apon the language,yes even Maori wouldn't speak it, Glad its slowly coming back,but still there's,non Maori,opposed to it,
the language does sound similar, now i understand why i see a lot of japanese people in new zealand than australia lol. this is so interesting. also new zealand looks a bit like japan, the geographical shape of the country
Kai te aha ia inaianei. kua hoki atu ia ki Nipono? Hai te Whiringa a Nuku ka haere ko au me öku hoa ki Nipono.彼女は今何をしているのですか。 彼女はどこですか。 彼女は日本へ行ってできましたか? 私は日本に10月3日から18日まで。 それは楽しみです
To be honest, if I wouldn’t listening carefully I would’ve just thought that she’s speaking Japanese. This just shows that Maori and Japanese sounds so similar, in terms of phonetics.
+Jon Luke i could name heaps of language similarities since im part maori but theres too many to mention. anyways maoris are scientifically proven to come from taiwan. end of story.
Mythic Dawn And it has been two years, since your post and Sweden is still dying, because of their inaction. They had a bombathon where there were at least 13 bombs went off in 25 days. The mainstream media did not report it. Your post was just listing truth of common sense and reason.
great! I applaud her effort! Now sensing that whilst learning our reo, she sensed our focus which includes kaupapa mana motuhake ... i challenge this wahine toa to go BACK to her home country Japan and go make right, what her people have done to the indigenous Japanese, the AINU who are in a world of shit thanks to Japanese domination. That will be the true wairua of her hard work here... You will always have a home here, but your MAHI is waiting for you back ki roto i Tiapana! Kia Ora!
Lol how is that her responsibility alone? Ridiculous! It's like saying every German person is responsible for Holocaust, or every English, and American person should be held responsible for slavery, genocide, and colonialism. Not logical.
Gille87 Its NOT her responsibility ALONE. Nor did I say it was. But if she was to take anything away from her experience it would be to make an exerted effort to uphold the mana of the people who are the MANA WHENUA of the land her ancestors have settled on. And part of that would mean taking the effort she has spent and redirecting it towards helping out their own. NO where did i make a reference to GENOCIDE or HOLOCAUST. You did though. This is different. AND while I welcome her to learning our stuff... could be better if she now goes helps the ainu in Japan out.
이무영 yes, they do exist... although largely harmed by the major colonisation of their lands... they DO EXIST and deserve to be recognised as the indigenous people
Glad to see efforts made by Japanese to learn Maori language. Maoris may be descendants of Hindus of India. We must encourage celebration of festivals together and give them love and respect they need. My love to Maoris. Thanks for posting this video
That moment when your a Māori yourself but a Japanese woman can speak Māori better than you, ahaha I can’t even speak my own language (fluently). I am ashamed of myself. Note to self: KIA KAHA WAHINE LOL
