Hinemoa, reincarnated video

Dr Hinemoa Elder, once a favourite Kiwi television personality, has reinvented herself as a Māori health practitioner.

Once NZ's most sought-after celebrity, Dr Hinemoa Elder is spearheading a path in Māori mental health.

The 'Frickin' funny te reo ad video

James Roque with Pax Assadi of Frickin Dangerous Bro

Frickin Dangerous Bro are encouraging Kiwis to give te reo Māori a go by getting it very, very wrong.

Haere atu, Bob the Builder video

A typical kōhanga trip.

OPINION: The journey through Māori immersion education has been challenging, but not for my son.

The iwi radio that plays dance

George FM is one of two MediaWorks-owned Māori radio stations in Auckland.

The radio frequencies are reserved for Māori cultural purposes, but George FM and Mai FM play commercial hits.

Why te reo Māori funding is failing

All students at Newton Central School learn te reo Māori from three hours a week to full immersion.

Not even the government seems to know how much it's spending on te reo Māori.

Amba Holly Māori musician video

Amba Holly (Waikato-Tainui) loved to sing on the marae as a small child.

She is an award-winning musician who talks about her love of te reo and balancing a career with motherhood.

The Māori language is 'our precious'

The Māori Language is a taonga (treasure) but one we must all share, says Professor Rawinia Higgins.

OPINION: If Māori refuse to share te reo - like Gollum in Lord of the Rings - we're in danger of ritualising our language.

Te reo in the digital age video

Emotiki, the first Maori emoji keyboard, launched in 2016. Google's language can be switched by users to te reo, but ...

Facebook offers "pirate" as a language option, but not te reo. Using Māori can be hard thanks to English's online domination.

A library of many languages video

10092018 Feature Photo: JASON DORDAY/STUFF Laura Caygill is the Community Library Manager at Northcote Library. She ...

OPINION: When I looked to Europe I could see my heritage there. I couldn't see it in my own country.

The Māori words that English misses video

Māori Language Commission chief executive Ngahiwi Apanui.

A different kind of idiot, a deeper type of care: There are words in Māori which Pākehā just don't have.

The question of te reo in schools video

Associate Professor Sharon Harvey is Head of the School of Language at Auckland University of Technology.

OPINION: Why some people are concerned about their children becoming multilingual can be puzzling to contemplate.

Growing up without English video

Tupoutama Paki grew up speaking te reo Māori only until he was a teenager.

OPINION: The house I grew up in was strictly Māori-speaking - I was seven before I started understanding English.

Raising bilingual children video

Jess Matthews is raising her children, Te Ariā Aroha, 5, and Mana Ariki, 3, as both English and Māori speakers.

Jess Matthews considers herself a typical Kiwi. Where she differs from most Pākehā is she speaks te reo Māori.

Stuff is Puna for Māori Language Week

We've adopted Puna as Stuff's brand during Māori Language Week. "Puna o te kī " means a spring of profound words.

We've changed our logo for Te Wiki o te Reo Māori.

Kaua e pukuriri ki te reo

Joel Maxwell: "I do not know why [some] people feel such anger towards te reo Māori."

OPINION: Don't be angry at te reo, it's not your enemy.

Tourism goes big on te reo video

Māori culture is a big draw card for international visitors and the tourism industry is trying to make the language an ...

Most tourists are on board with a bit of te reo, but some Australians just don't get it.

Family te reo fight's implications for NZ

The decision in a family dispute over which school a young girl should go to implies "an overarching obligation on any ...

Parents' fight over their girl's schooling could oblige all Government services to be delivered in te reo Māori.

Te reo Māori makes us unique video

One of the six Māori Language Week parades will be in Wellington this year. In 2016 Te Ururoa Flavell, the former MP and ...

OPINION: Māori is the language of the mana whenua (Māori people) but it is also the language of the land and all who call Aotearoa home.

How Kiwis might talk in 2040 video

A million Kiwis speaking basic te reo by 2040 is an ambitious target, but attendence at Māori Language Week parades show ...

Kei te pēhea koe? Everyday conversations in Aotearoa could be very different in years to come, if an ambitious plan works.

Why bother learning te reo?

Māori Language Commission Chief Executive Ngahiwi Apanui says te reo boosts our biggest industry, tourism.

OPINION: Māori is spoken only in NZ, so some question its "value" as a language. It doesn't work like that.

You speak more reo than you think video

A bilingual cafe in Taranaki offers flat whites and lattes in Māori.

It's a peculiarly Kiwi phenomenon that NZ English has borrowed so much from te reo.

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