Beginners Te Reo Maaori

Mondays, starting the 28th April

6pm - 8.30pm

If you are searching for a place to begin your Te Reo journey, then this is the space for you. This is a progressive 2 Term Programme. Term 1 Beginners Level 1 and Term 2 Beginners Level 2.

This enrolment is for Term 2.

If you are searching for a place to begin your Te Reo journey, then this is the space for you. This is a progression program to Term 1 programme. Term 2 Beginners Level 2, Te Reo Teina (Taumata Rua) is a step-up beginner level Maaori language class that will focus on relaxed conversational social learning settings and styles to better instill our language in the same way it was taught by our tuupuna, orally.

This will be done through mihimihi, waiata, karakia and an overall focus to every-day koorero rather than bookwork.

There will be 8 classes over the 9 week period. (No class Monday 2nd June - Public Holiday)

This course is available to persons 16 years and over.

During this course we will study the following:

- Learn basic Te Reo Maaori and tikanga in a relaxed and safe space.
- Learn basic waiata.
- Learn common saying, phrases, greetings and emotions.
- More advanced sentences structures. Learning to understand tone, context, and uses of the different structures.
- Using all learnt knowledge into making a puuraakau for our class, to act as a motif for future learning.

This course is supported by the TEC (Tertiary Education Commission) to assist with literacy and numeracy needs of students. You must attend 80% of the class. At the same time we hope you will learn other useful and interesting skills and have a lot of fun learning with us.