Te Reo Maurea
Revised and updated in 2023 by our Maurea staff, Te Reo Maurea is a pathway to further extend your knowledge of Te Reo Māori.
The programme runs over 10 weeks, with 2-hour online sessions held every Tuesday between 9am - 11am.
Unique to Te Reo Maurea is Te Reo o te Tari (language specific to the office), which will allow you to become more confident in learning and speaking Te Reo Māori in the office and in your day-to-day life.
Course Outline
Te Reo Maurea
This course has be designed to be delivered online by our experienced facilitators. Expand the topics to view more.
Dive deeper into the foundational basics of Te Reo Māori and polish your pronunciation.
- Strengthening what you already know
- Learn a kīwaha/phrase suitable for the office
Explore different parts of mihimihi and expanding your understanding of tikanga when acknowledging different parts (i.e the dead and the living).
You will also learn a range of opening mihimihi and sign offs, with little interjections to develop fluency when doing mihimihi.
- Expand knowledge on tikanga around mihimihi
- Expand on vocab for mihimihi and pepeha
- Learn a kīwaha/phrase suitable for around the home
Explore different parts of mihimihi and expanding your understanding of tikanga when acknowledging different parts (i.e the dead and the living).
You will also learn a range of opening mihimihi and sign offs, with little interjections to develop fluency when doing mihimihi relevant to the workplace.
- Expand knowledge on tikanga around mihimihi
- Expand on vocab for mihimihi and pepeha
- Learn a kīwaha/phrase suitable for the office
Learn to start conversations in relation to the past, present and future. Learn tense markers, personal pronouns and other language features.
Expand vocab (pronouns, statives, verbs)
- Learn tense markers
- Basic sentence structures and expand vocab (pronouns, statives)
- Learn a kīwaha/phrase suitable for the office
Start learning how to engage in small conversations through asking and responding to questions.
- Learn how to ask and respond to simple questions
- Learn a kīwaha/phrase suitable for the office
Learn locatives and how to start conversations in the office, including give descriptive terms.
- Expand on vocab
- Learn a kīwaha/phrase suitable for the office
Learn to list and describe relationships within your whānau at home. You will explore whānau relationships through a whakaaro Māori lens.
- Know how to speak about your whānau in te reo Māori
- Learn a kīwaha/phrase suitable for the office
This session focuses on Te reo o te Tari through a deeper lens.
- How to start conversations in the office
This session focuses on Te reo o te Tari through a deeper lens.
- Strengthening conversations in the office
Reflect on our reo journey and demonstrate our learning through the delivery of a speech completely in te reo Māori.
- Learn to speak confidently in public in te reo Māori
- Expand on vocab