My BIGGEST Mistake Learning Te Reo Māori | MAORI LANGUAGE FOR BEGINNERS 

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Keep going bro! Our young ones dont know whats good for them! Kia kaha, dont allow your boy to tell you whats good. I know zero te reo and came back to nz and literally FORCED my 12yo boy to learn te reo maori. For the first year, he hated it. I persevered and made him take it as his first option in high school. NOW, in his last year of high school, its his absolute biggest passion, one of the reasons he still goes to school and has found his path. At 16 he helps tutor kapahaka to the juniors, jumps up for hakas at tangi and birthdays, travels for cultural experiences with his roopu and speaks almost fluently and with all the dysfunction in this millennium, has kept his head above water and its really enlightened him. I was tough even thought i was bad for forcing him (at times, crying at night cos he would get upset with me) but now we both love the results and my son shows his gratitude everyday.

Mahalo for sharing. O matou mai hawaii nei still struggle with our own language and its nice seeing our languages slowly comming back alive. I want to learn te reo maori too because theres alot of similarities with my native tounge (niihauan) and also the other languages throughout the pacific so that one day our whanau can speak to one another again as they did back in the days

I am of Maori/Scottish descent. I have been trying to learn Korean instead, and even before I tried to be something that i am not. Now I want to learn my Roots and learn Te reo Maori. I can easily say, that I have never been proud of my culture; I was actually ashamed of my own culture. I mostly thought only about the bad things about Maori, and so that's when I completely ignored who I am and instead became a Weebo. After all that's been said, I am now more accepting of who I am and is more motivated than ever to Learn Te Reo Maori!!! I am also Proud of being Maori!!!

Kia Ora Matua. This is an old video so I'm hoping my comment still reaches you. I just wanted to tell you I have been able to relate to your kōrero in this video. I'm in my mid 30s with 3 sons, and much like you I have began my journey in te reo maori very late in life. I didn't have the opportunities that our tamariki do now where te reo is a proud language here in Aotearoa. English was the only language in my life growing up. I was never connected to my whakapapa until now. Since having my sons, my oldest boy has taken part in his kura kapa haka and his passion ignited that flame and I could almost hear my tipuna calling me. So since then I have reconnected with my whanau, whakapapa, marae, awa... you name it. With that connection behind me I want to learn te reo. I speak as much as I know at home and try to learn something new everyday. I appreciate your kōrero and I look forward to learning more from you as I continue to watch. Nga mihi!

Bro i was like your boy. My reason for not wanting to pursue the language was because i didn't want to be different from my peers. When i was growing up English was the dominant language and culture. Here's what. When your son grows up he will remember your enthusiasm for promoting the language and culture in the home. He will remember your passion. I bet later in life he will come back to Maori. He will find himself at a Crossroad and realise there is something missing in his life. You have planted a seed and it's important that you remain active and involved in your Maori journey. I feel certain that when he is ready he will come to you for help and guidance. Because that's what I'm doing now. Thanks for sharing Bro.

OMG thankyou so much for making this vid ❤ I didn't learn maori growing up and had no interest in it whatsoever but once I had my son I felt very ashamed for not truly knowing anything about our language and culture. I threw him into the deep end by putting him into kohanga but we only speak English at home, so he understands maori but only speaks English. Now he's 5 and is in full immersion maori so he's having a hard time learning...like you mentioned he actually started hating the words "korero maori" so I am now going to try learn what I can to help him out and your vids will be a huge help 👌

The feeling somefin is missing, incomplete, when your innerself callin to get starting on te reo..well your here .. Congrats..tena koe 😃✌👍

Grant, we all learn when we are ready. I have been ready for 30 years but have never taken the step. My eldest child is 28 and my youngest is 15. None of us speak Te Reo Maori. This year I started and I am 49, I am learning through the Te Ataarangi method. So it is never too late e hoa. I plan on learning and speaking Te Reo to my mokopuna when I finally have some. That way I can share our language with them. I speak 6 languages and I felt sad that I didn't know mine or pass it on to my kids. We are all on our own journey and it'll come when it does. I have been following your videos and have learnt a lot so nga mihi Grant. By the way, are you doing any other bootcamps?

In the last 15 seconds you hit the nail on the head: Plenty of natural, light exposure within a conducive environment.

Mean brother, my girls love using Maori words. I drop some kupu here and there so keeping it up the korero. In the process of using more and more. Chur brother.

Kia ora brother, i am in the same waka as you bro, aussie born but im maori and i hated i havent learnt sooner 😔 but ill be subscribing and following you hopefully i can get better! Kia kaha bro

Keep persisting with him. even if he's not fluent yet, you've given him a much stronger foundation in Te Reo than you had,& if/when language & identity becomes more important to him in the future, he already has a strong base to kick off from. That's such a wonderful gift you've given him! I've found with my three kids, the little one who is five now, is much more receptive to me speaking in Te Reo Maori to her (the little bit I know) than the eldest, because I've used those words & phrases with her since she was born. I'm actively trying to get my kids to learn & speak some of their high frequency phrases in Te Reo Maori so that at least they'll be more knowledgeable than I was as a kid, & if they decide to take it further in the future they'll have a stronger foundation to start from.

Kia kaha brother. When I was suffering from a bit of "Maori imposter syndrome, a wahine colleague told me this (which was passed onto her by an old kuia when my friend was feeling stink for not knowing reo) : "Don't ever feel bad about your maoriness or whether you're maori enough. Remember you are a product of everything the colonizers wanted you to be, and yet you are here because your tupuna knew you were worth it and they're right. Were always enough. Our culture is a gift from our ancestors, not a sentence."

Ram it down the kids throats ehoa my Koro & Nanny Maunga did to us. Best learning I ever got.

I love this! My husband and I want to have kids soon but have made the goal to learn te reo before we have kids! Keep up the awesome work! Thanks for staying up late to make us these vids. I really appreciate it! I need all the help I can get as I live in Aus aswell!

I am not maori, i am from overseas but i studied te reo maori and it is a beautiful language reflecting a beautiful rich culture.

I wanted to teach myself a language, te reo Māori looked like fun, so I started trying to learn it. Your videos have been super helpful, thank you. Do you have any other sources for learning Māori that you'd recommend? I have no connection to Māori culture and no one I know speaks it. I'm American, and still a teenager. I have experience with many other languages. Thanks for your time, if you have any advice, I appreciate it.

Hi! I've just started learning maori and wanted to thank you for you help. It's really important for me, as I have no chances to speak maori where I live. Big thanks!

I’m starting out now when I’m thirteen, I’m guessing this will help me out more right?

Awesome, you are right,, its important that your partner gets onboard with supporting the importance of you culture so that when one parent is working the other one can continue the reo through the day. Thank you for your honesty and for being vulnerable to share, its powerful. Nga mihi Kia koe Grant.

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Mahalo nui no kou mana'o. He mea nui ia kakou e 'ike, ua like a like no ho'i ko kakou mo'olelo. E ho'omau e ho'omanawa nui 'oe me kau mau keiki. Thank you for sharing this video. You never know how other's stories might resonate with our own. As a young boy in grammar school here in Hawai'i I can recall questioning my grandmother (a native speaker) speaking to me from birth, and me questioning why we needed to speak Hawaiian. When I was 10 years old because of my continued rejection she finally stopped speaking to me in Hawaiian... Flash forward some 40 years, I have been a teacher in the Hawaiian Language Schools for all my life. I regret every bit that I missed from my grandmother. I clearly understand all that she was driven to impart to me. I can only trust that my efforts to be of service to our community can make up for the foolishness of youth. I hear you, and I see your Aloha for your kamali'i when you talk about how in the modern world our jobs take us away from all the things we know truly matter to us, to our whanau, to our people, to our homeland. I'm sorry I have no answers for you. All I can tell you is to HO'OMAU A 'ONIPA'A. CONTINUE TO PERSEVERE. Mahalo nui bro

Yup, It starts at home then school. Most foreigners that come here to live, see their children forgetting their language when they send their kids to English schools. The same thing happened to Maoris when they came to the big cities in the 1940s and 50s to find work, send their kids to English schools then the kids can't speak Maori when they get older. We need our own Maori speaking schools... especially te reo Maori at home to start with...

Kia Ora Grant! mean bro thank you for Sharing I love your channel man Im in the exact same boat. except I grew up in NZ but my whanau only used english in our whare and I would feel the same way, felt like I wasnt Maori because I never spoke Te Reo I am now i the position where I want nothing more but to speak te Reo. Ive lived in Aussie and now live in Canada. Im in a Kapa haka group over here and we have an awesome roopu. whanau away from home keeps me grounded and connected to home. I too have a son and he is 6 months old. and everything you described on this video im exactly the same. work long hours, only see my boy in the morning and again for a short time after mahi. how old was your boy when you started learning? how long have you been learning ? and what level would you say you are at now? cause as you descibed if i cant speak fluent and im struggling how am I supposed to teach my son? just be persistant? again awesome work bro! you break things down really well! cheers!! oh and Kevin Matherest you are a Muppet mate. go smoke some more crack

1:09 Thought I detected a slight Aussie twang in your pronunciation

I really want to be fluent in té reo Maori and don't know where to start i Will learn with this channel any where else to learn te reo Maori

How old were you when you started learning Te Reo? Im 19 and I relate to everything you say about not feeling Maori and not feeling connected with Maori heritage, it sucks but I'm so determined to learn it now. How long did it take you to fully understand the language?

Good on you 👏

He mihi nui whakaharahara ki ā koe ē Grant, mō tētahi akoranga anō.

I’m fluent māori !!

Mad respect bro

He Tamounga momutu he ahi kaka he pitahinga pokorehu he ahi ka. Keep sweeping away brother

not being able to speak my language has never bothered me or made me feel less of a Maori..however it has bothered me all my life knowing my parents and their parents and so on were beaten at school AT FUCKEN SCHOOL BY THE FUCKEN TEACHERS FOR SPEAKING IT. Every non SPEAKING Maori should be compensated..pay up pakeha..you owe us big-time!

Same boat

Send him for a holiday with Koro.

Yea man can relate to your korero lol

kia kaha raa e tai ki te whakahua ngaa kupu moroiti. wheenei naa *kia ora e te whaanau* (e te).🙏 wheoi ano. kei whea mai te ataahua o ngeenei ataata. whiua te reo maaori ki te ao.

Kia mau te wehi

Whakama

Tēnā koe, "Kia ora e te whānau" is the correct way to greet te whanau. Kia ora whānau is incorrect.

He mihi nui ki ā koe anō mō tō harakore ē Grant. He whakaaro tēnei. Me parakitihi tātou ia rā, ia rā ki te whakapai ake tō tātoou reo.

Geez kev! Listen up mate, We, as in many of us, who are the decendants of Maori, are through higher learning and cultural awareness attempting to break the 'colonial yoke' that is the suppressive side of colonialism, but you seem quite bitter about us wanting this, you want for us to be what you want. Would you force your want on us? that'll be suppression Kevin. This seperation you speak of, concerning Aotearoa Maori as so called New Zealanders is important to you, I get it howbeit, I cannot and will never standunder your statement. Was Aotearoa Maori who are wrongly called New Zealanders ever one people with the Colonial Government and it's colonial communities, were WE? I think not! you're in colonisation suppression mode, by wanting to deny us our heritage, language and Racial Idendity, you have the same spirit as the original land theiving British colonisers. I do happen to know histories of the inter tribal wars of both North and South Islands that occurred, and the atrocities inflicted on the losing sides, yes you're right about that. Why did Maori stop inter tribal war? The Gospel and the message of Salvation through Jesus the Christ was the reason, the Colonist and the Governing enterties at the time couldn't of cared less. And I also happen to know quite a deal of history relating to the land wars, the commercial businesses wars, the coastal freighters and commercial fishing wars, the farming wars, the banking wars and the towns settlement wars. All Maori progressive enterprises in which were many throughout Aotearoa, were systematically shut down by Government sponsored sabotage, because the greater general colonial public couldn't compete with the how and the way Maori tribes were now working together, so a Government sponsored war on all Maori enterprises came into effect. In saying that tho' a great many mid to lower class colonist were working and living as one with Maori and they thrived. Kevin, research the true history of both sides of Aotearoa (New Zealand) not the bull'S that's taught in schools, get the real stuff. My suggestion to you is that you read the documented atrocities inflicted upon Maori by the British Government troops and their civilian and Constabulary cohorts, that wasn't, isn't nor probably ever will be taught at any so called one nation one peoples systematimised corporate business educational institute or school. Here's just one for you that is on record, but in no History book of Aotearoa, your New Zealand. Between Mid to Late 19th Century Bay of Plenty Maori from the Minganui settlement received in the early morning an unprovoked ambush attack by British troops and the Constabulary, a massacre ensued, tho a massacre there were many non combatant survivors, the remaining survivors many women, children and old men were rounded up and forced into the main big meeting house, the only window and door was bordered up and made secure, then the ambushing colonial British troops and their cohorts layed dry bush around the big house and set it ablaze burning alive all the children all the women and all the old men, but that's not all there's more, the surviving Maori men who fought the ambush were shackled and held captive outside. They were prevented from being placed in the house to be murdered with their families by fire, but were forced to hear the screams and shouts of all the children all the women and the groans of all the dying old men. But hang on that's not all, after tireing of torturing the surviving Maori captives for many hours, the British troops and their Constabulary cohorts decapitated the Maori men and kept their heads as trophies, and what they didn't keep they sold, to the honest to goodness civilised upper class colonist gentle folk!! The last National Government has formally apologised for that shameful disgrace. You and your kind want a one people one nation land? Sure we can do that! But ......!! FIRST, give back to the decendants all treasures, lands and beach fronts and foreshores that was illegally confiscated and stolen by fraudulence, from our forebears. Second, learn to be Maori as we and our forebears were forced to learn The Way of the Pakeha. Third, learn Sign language, it is along with English and Maori an official and recognised language of Aotearoa (New Zealand) Kevin, you and yours truley want a one Nation one people land? ..... Maori want that too! Join us so we can be one, Kotahitanga e hoa Kotahitanga ake ake ee! Hei konei ra e hoa maa! Hei te rangimarie hi !! 😊

Dont force feed it on a nation. If people want to learn its fine but don't ram it down their throats .