Beginners Te Reo Maaori

Mondays, starting the 21st July

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 1. You will need to re-enrol for Term 2 when advertised.

Te Reo Teina (Taumata Tahi) is a 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 8 week period.

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 your pepeha, and basic waiata.
- Learn common saying, phrases, greetings and emotions.
- Basic 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.

As a not-for-profit organisation, NGĀ ART (Te Whare Toi o Ngaaruawaahia) relies on grants, community funding, and donations to keep our classes affordable and accessible for everyone in our community. This programme is generously subsidised thanks to funding support from TEC (Tertiary Education Commission) to assist with literacy and numeracy needs of our participants. You must attend 80% of the classes. At the same time we hope you will learn other useful and interesting skills and have a lot of fun learning with us.