Matapēhi day one:
Learnt(ing) new words for "valiant warrior," "revolt," "fight with losses on both sides," "attendant," "long wooden trumpet," and "fog," and a couple others.
The kupu, respectively: mumu, whana, haupārua, hāwini, pūkāea, kohu.

This is shaping up to be a great book.

#TeReo #TeReoMāori #LanguageLearning #Reading

I've recently been watching Te Kauwaka (Avatar the Last Airbender in te reo Māori).

Comprehension: 8/10. I understand most of it, but there are a few times where I don't know a word or two, or a sentence's grammar structure is a bit new for me.
Focus: 7/10. Sometimes my mind can drift, but I'm generally quite focused while watching it.
Effort: 4/10. This series is relatively easy, but I do have to use some effort to understand it all.

All in all it's enjoyable and a great resource for learning the language.

#TeReoMāori #TeReo #LanguageLearning

I taught my cousin the word pīwakawaka to describe a fantail and it’s what he uses now. He says the name pīwakawaka is just too cute!! 😊 Easy to write in Japanese too!! 🙌 #TeReo #ピーワカワカ

With this latest wind warning in Canterbury I have been thinking that we need a really good name for these nor'westers. After all there is the Santa Ana in California and the Sirocco in Europe.

My Te Reo is almost non existent but I have come up with:

Te manawa o taniwha

The breath of the taniwha.

I like it. What say you?

#NZ #Winds #TeReo

Such energy today at hikoi Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week Parade) at Te Tāhuna o Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington Waterfront)

#TeReo #TeReoMaori

I took a minor stand for #TeReo this week. Got a new list of NZ schools to be loaded into a UK product that's being ported to NZ. Search by name isn't normalised, so typing "WHANGA" won't find "Whangārei". Two managers told me to strip the macrons out of the list. I said I wasn't going to be that old white guy. It took me just two hours to fix the code, in a computer language I started learning last week.

Another two months, another 50 hours, another learning te reo blog post!

I'm still amazed that I can watch tv or read the news in a different language, understand most of it, and learn from it. Combine that with vocab and grammar study and it's going well!

https://skivling.codeberg.page/te-reo-200hr

#TeReoMāori #TeReo #LearningTeReo #LanguageLearning @languagelovers

200 Hours Learning Te Reo

Update on my te reo learning progress for July and August 2025

Skivling's Website

Te Reo ~
We have two alternative universes happening in Aotearoa.

A Gvt with a racist agenda trying to strip out te reo in every way imaginable

Community/social orgs, local Councils, many companies & large numbers of NZers continuing to integrate and use te reo in their daily lives in a multitude of ways.

The "stop te reo" crowd are on a bus to nowhere. #tereo #NZPol