Te Reo Māori: A new era for the language | Hēmi Kelly | TEDxAuckland 

I'm living in Romania🇷🇴, and I'm trying to learn🌺 Te Reo Māori🌺because I love the polynesian culture and would like to move out in Aotearoa🇳🇿

As a Maori person I don't see the language as belonging to me or to Maori but to Aotearoa. It is for all to share and exclusion will never move any of us forward. Togetherness should be the goal, for our relationships with each other and our future.

My tupuna (grandad) had the "Māori strapped out of him" as a school kid in Invercargill and grew up trying to "whiten" us all as a way to protect us. It breaks my heart thinking of the information/knowledge we've lost due to the colonial system. We owe so much to the brave activists who kept our language alive despite all of the resistance we came up against. This was a beautiful TED talk. Much gratitude and respect xx

IN 1973 I WAS EMPLOYED AS A REG. SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHER AT FOREST VIEW H.S. - TOKOROA AS H.O.D. TE REO MAORI. THIS WAS THE 2ND INTAKE OF TE REO IN NEW ZEALAND. I HAVE JUST FINISHED WRITING A "LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF TE REO " AND MANY WOULD BE SURPRISED AT MY DISCOVERY. I HAVE ALSO JUST AT THE END OF MY PHD. (WAIKATO UNIVERSITY) TOTALLY WRITTEN IN TE REO MAORI - TITLE - "I BELONG, THERFORE I AM".

You guys are awesome. I have so much respect for people of Polynesia.

5:55 👍👍👍 "It's also been suggested that the obsession with correct pronunciation only discourages people from trying. As a teacher, I understand that the safe learning environment I aim to foster in my classroom where practice is encouraged doesn't always transfer into the public domain... and others don't always use supportive methods of correcting. I can only urge my fellow speakers to be mindful of anyone trying..."

the langage is the doorway to Maori world..... so true... I had some lessons in french polynesia, and I discovered that, through the langage, I better understood their way of life, their vision of the world. For instance, no word for "empty"... it doesn't exist... there is "always something" in there... far from our vision, isn't it ? I spent one year in Tahiti and islands around, and learned a lot....

That my guys is my Maori teacher from AUT University

I'm a Briton who would love to learn Te Reo Māori. I think it's a beautiful and powerful language.

Kia ora Hēmi! He rawe tō kōrero :-)

Thank you Hēmi 🙏

Kia ora whanau! Let’s keep teaching more people the language

You know what I don’t see or hear anymore - there used to be a song we all sang in class (we’re going back to the 70s where unbelievably when I look back on it, correct pronunciation was really important and we had regular Te Reo lessons at primary school and could choose to take it as a language class in high school) to help get the vowel pronunciation right - does anyone else remember it? I use it every day still, it would be a shame if it’s been sort of forgotten ☹ Maybe because I come from the East Coast it was more normalized back then, don’t know kind of took it for granted growing up. “Ahhhh ehhhh eeeeee awwww ooooo” obv with a tune 😊

So cool Hemi!

Beautifully said

This made me smile. Kia mau ki to Reo Maori

Loved your interview with Blindboy

Kōrero! Ka nui te mihi e hoa. "Nō te whenua te reo" Tika tonu.

Kia ora mai koe Hemi. Tautokona nga korero!

Ka rawe 🤲🏾❤️

Kia kaha! 🙏💯

Kia ora!

Kia ora Heemi...rawe te koorero xxoo

YESHHHH 👏

my journey started in 2002 when i signed up to learn my beautiful language Te Reo Rangatira me ōna Tikanga. I struggled with learning my language from pronounace and writing in Te Reo Māori over the years my reo as come along way. I learnt alot more about myself and where i belong and come from?

As a spanish speaker (Argentina) I feel like te reo pronunciation is really similar to spanish!!

Kia ora Hemi, he whakaaro pai. Mēnā ka haere atu au tāwahi, ka tarai au ki ako etahi o tō rātou reo. mi piace Geoff (italy) he tauira. Nō reira, āe marika, he pai mō ngā Pākeha o Aotearoa ki mohio ngā rua reo mātua o te motu, ne. Kia kaha te haerenga e hoa.

Ka pai Hemi

Ata Marie!

😭

You got your LANGUAGE. We STILL don't have ours✊🏿

Kia Ora e Hoa . Ataahua korero . Mauri Ora

In The BEGINNING Was TE REO.... I TE TIMATANGA... "TE REO"

I here for the fresh haircut

tautoko to korero he hoa

wish I was taught in school back in the 1970's - what a lost opportunity for my generation.

ko hēmi kelly tōku kaiako i te tau nei

Noho au ki Ahitereiria mokemoke au mo t reo rangatira. Hoki au ki Aotearoa ka ako te reo me te mita o te reo. Ka mua au e mahue te ao. KIA ORA E HOA!

I won't be learning any Maori, because I don't want to be accused of cultural appropriation.