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y'all please check out my friend alex's book!! its a free online resource for learning māori, the endangered indigenous language of new zealand, and we hope that it can help spread this beautiful language to even more people!

(plus this book is a blast hehe)

#resources

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would love to turn people on to nz on screen, a free archive of new zealand and māori content with over 4500 titles!

the site is accessible in both english and te reo, and it includes over 500 films, 3000 tv series & specials, 2000 documentaries, as well as history series & specials, chat shows, musicals, lgbtq+ content, standup, children's shows, historic news & sports, and more :)

new zealand and māori filmmaking & content, particularly from before the late 2000s, can be exceptionally hard to track down and haven't been given the archival attention they deserve, so this is an amazing resource!

#resources

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Tips and inspiration I got from Fluent In 3 Months by Benny Lewis

I recently read Fluent in 3 Months by Benny Lewis. He’s a polyglot who was relentlessly mocked and made fun of in the langblr community a few years ago. Couple of days ago I came across his book on Scribd and decided to give it a go. I have gathered some of the language learning tips and nuggets of inspiration I got from his book. Many of them are nothing new or groundbreaking, but still legit, good pieces of advice or just great words of encouragement. Some of these tips may not make sense taken out of its context and listed like this, so if that’s the case, feel free to message me and ask me what it’s about or read the book yourself. • Learn a language to use it, to learn about the culture and people of the country, not to gain some side-benefits.  • Live the language instead of learning it. • You can always make time to learn a language.  • Surround yourself by your target language in your day-to-day living. • Start speaking your target language as soon as possible, don’t wait until you’re “ready”.  • You should put two hours or more into studying the language every day, and ideally more.  • Experiment with different studying methods to see which ones work for you.  • Find fun, enjoyable ways to study.  • Accents are charming, and native speakers speak in many different accents too.  • Don’t compare yourself to others.  • Push yourself out of your comfort zone and through the frustrating parts.  • Keep going despite obstacles. • Be proud of your achievements.  • Set specific end goals withing specific time frames.  • By giving yourself a short deadline you are more likely to study efficiently.  • Divide your language learning progress into “mini missions” where you tackle one problem at the time.  • Make language learning fun by assigning yourself language learning tasks you enjoy. • You can use CEFR to measure your level of fluency.  • Remember to take breaks to avoid burnout.  • Announce your language learning mission to the world to make yourself more accountable.  • Make sure you can both recognize and produce the new words you learn.  • Use associations and visualizations when learning new words.  • Use flashcards. • Implement spaced repetition system.  • Start learning a language by learning full phrases or sentences.  • Use songs to remember sentences.  • Learn mini-scripts of typical, often used sentences and predictable exchanges.  • Learn words and sentences you use the most first. • Create yourself an immersion environment and expose yourself to native speakers.  • What matters is that you can understand and make yourself understood, not having perfect grammar and accent.  • Body languages and social cues will help you understand what the other person is saying. • Listen for any particular words or segments of a person’s speech that you can understand and extrapolate what is being said from that.  • You can use cheat-sheets when conversing with natives.  • Go for “close enough” rather than perfect, keep it simple and be flexible.  • Being incorrect is fine.  • If you get corrected, take a note of it to get it right next time.  • Don’t switch to your native language or the common language, stick to your target language.  • No language is too difficult to learn.  • Refer to cognates for heaps of “free” vocabulary.  • Learn modal verbs (can, should, would like to, must, have to, want to) early on.  • Learn conversational connectors or filler words to keep the conversation flowing.  • “It’s not necessarily about having a ‘perfect’ approach, but continuing with a learning strategy that encourages you to improve and helps you make those improvements.”  • Always look for ways to improve.  • Hit the books and study as much grammar and do as many book-assigned exercises as you need to understand what you are learning.  • Study through input - movies, TV-shows, radio, etc.  • If you’re listening to an audio, take notes to make sure you are following what you’re hearing, or try to repeat it over to yourself. • Take an officially accredited examination for your language.  • Once you’re good at conversing in the language, practice writing and reading more to reach a higher level of fluency. • Have inner dialogues with yourself in your target language.  • You can learn in every moment by getting inspired by your surroundings.  • Emulate your clothing sense, body language, distance between speakers, facial expressions, the topics you discuss, and all the things related to what native speakers would do to seem more like a native speaker.  • Fix your pronunciation of certain letters/sounds early on to have a better accent.  • Do sentence drilling and repeat native-recorded phrases. • Sing in your target language. • Pay attention to the particular prosody (rhythm, stress and intonation in speech) patterns of the language.  • Trying to become a polyglot is a terrible goal. You can only become a polyglot if you are passionate about each language and not because you want to ‘collect’ a large number of languages.  • If you’re not willing to put in the work, your chances of success drop.  • It’s better to focus on one language until you’re comfortable with it and then turn your full attention to a second language.  • Never listen to anyone who tells you what your limitations are.  • There is no secret or magic formula to learning languages.  • Use different body language and a sense of personality, a different mindset for each of your languages to compartmentalize them in your mind.  • Learn basic grammar terminology (article, conjugation, adjective, case, preposition, possessive…), it will help you understand the language and your textbooks better.  • Try laddering: learning a language through another language.  • There are plenty of free or very low cost resources available, use them. • Spending a lot of money on language resources might pressure you to work harder because you’ve spend so money, but it’s debatable.  • No course can be the one all-encompassing solution to your language learning problems.  • Any time you spend researching for the best materials (or methods) will have been better spent actually practicing the language.  • Keep a language log and document your language learning experience in some way. • Join some kind of language learning network. 

#langblr

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international people start calling our country aotearoa instead of new zealand challenge

#aotearoa

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Te Reo Māori Resources

Books 

MEGA folder

Huia Publisher

Websites

Omniglot

Commonly Used Words

Māori Language Net

Newspapers

Swadesh List

Dictionaries

Victoria University

Te Aka

Ngata

Apps 

Drops

Memrise

Te Aka

Tipu Te Reo Māori

Kōrerorero

Youtube 

Ako Māori

Reo  Māori

Bonus

Poi E -  Pātea Māori Club

#resources #hell yeah! #as soon as i have some money i'll need to by some pukapuka te tamariki from huia!!

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I’ve been trying to write down whenever I see a Te Reo Maōri word in the news or on social media that I don’t understand to expand my Te Reo knowledge, hopefully this list might be helpful to someone else as well:

🖤❤️🤍🖤❤️🤍

Tāngata tiriti - "People of the Treaty", or New Zealanders of non-Maori origin. Originally, Europeans who have a right to live in New Zealand under the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) but now including peoples of other ethnic origins who live in New Zealand.

Tauiwi - a non-Māori person, tau means foreign (like in tauwhenua) and iwi means bones/lineage so it’s like saying your bones/lineage are from a foreign land

Tauwhenua - a foreign land/country

Tangata whenua - (native) people of the land, can be individuals or iwi/hapū

Mana whenua - the iwi or hapū that have territorial rights over the land

Tūpuna - a grandparent or ancestor

Kaumātua - a respected tribal elder (of any gender)

Whakapapa - genealogy (“A person reciting their whakapapa proclaims their Māori identity, places oneself in a wider context, and links oneself to land and tribal groupings and the mana of those.”)

Mātauranga Māori - traditional/pre-colonial Māori knowledge and values

Tikanga Māori - traditional Māori customs/cultural practices

Mana - prestige/reputation

#kupu

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Portrait de un juvene femina Maori con moko (1891) | Louis John Steele (1842-1918)

#art #māori #louis john steele #moko

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Some reactions in te reo Māori

āe - yes

kāore (shortened: kāo) - no

ka mau te wehi! - fantastic, awesome

kino kē koe - you're good alright, awesome (koe can be replaced with other personal pronouns)

ko [koe] tonu a runga - [you're] the bomb!, [you're] awesome!

ka pai! - well done!, good!

#langblr #te reo maori #te reo māori

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Taika’s stories about The Lion King in Te Reo Māori, out now in theatres in Aotearoa

#taika waititi #the lion king #man i wish i could watch it around here! #ka pai!!

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He rā pai te āianei. Ka ako te reo māori me ka aho te rā. He pūwerawera te huarere. Ā te auina iho ka rīti ahau ki te pukapuka. Auina iho i te ahiahi ka kai tātou ki te kai pai.

#writing practice #corrections are always welcome

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Some random nature words in te reo Māori

te awa - the river

te roto - the lake

te moana - the sea / ocean

te wai - the water

te maunga - the mountain

te whenua - the ground

te rangi - the sky

te marama - the moon

te ngahere - the forest

#langblr #kupu #te reo maori #te reo māori #yes i'm using this blog as another notebook

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me: working with my bruce biggs book

book: "ka mate, te wahine, i te hiakai." (the woman is dying of hunger)

me: okay okay yeah i understand

book: "ka mate, te tamaiti, i te whakamā." (the child is ashamed)

me: cries in language learner

#langblr #te reo maori #te reo māori #they are the same image!!! #like i'm guessing that mate + te whakamā is creating the intransitive verb ashamed with no direct object #but like why use te whakamā instead of the verb whakamā?? #confusion

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Currently working on a playlist with waiata in te reo Māori that I really like, to surround myself with my target language every day. It's a work in progress and I'll add songs regularly.

#te reo maori #te reo māori #langblr #spotify

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#books #to read #there are two authors from aotearoa on this great list!

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maybe it's better to learn a language slowly. maybe we're too obsessed with things happening as quickly as possible. maybe it's more beautiful to dedicate years of your life to a language and have it grow with you as you journey through life rather than "become fluent in one week!". idk just a thought.

#reminder #it is quite lovely to take the pressure out of it #sometimes i only learn one new word in te reo māori during my daily session #and that's good too

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✨ Language Study Master Post! ✨

(Ill update this as I post more, but here is a master post of tons of links to language resources to help you study a language from my site (Plurilingualism) so far! 💜)

Before you start:

- A guide to making S.M.A.R.T goals (and why goals are so important!)

- A complete guide to self-studying a language

Resources and tips:

- Website resources page (with links to tons of resources for general language learning)

- 5 must-visit sites for language learners

- Master list of language challenges (vocab, reading, journaling, etc)

- 10 unique resources (I'll bet you haven't heard of even 3!)

- Where to find good foreign language books (+ links to several recommendations)

- Master list of YouTube channels in 50+ languages (With almost 500 links!!)

- All about the animedoro study method (my favorite way to study anything, but especially a language)

- All about Memrise (a great app and website)

- All about Busuu (one of my all time favorite resources)

- All about italki (a must-have resource for any language learner!)

- How to perfect your pronunciation (+ links to guides in several languages)

- How to actively and passively learn a language via TV and movies

- The best 15 apps to learn a language with (+ links to full reviews for each)

+

If you are studying Korean:

- 10 amazing Korean resources (with descriptions)

- Korean resource master post (with almost 200 links)

If you are studying German:

- German resource master post (with almost 200 links too)

If you are studying Spanish

- Spanish resource master post (with almost (you guessed it) 200 links!)

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i feel like actively learning two new languages at the same time is actually doing wonders for my adhd. whenever one language doesn't give my brain the required stimulus anymore i can always just switch and that really has been working well for me!

another thing i realized is that it depends on the language for what type of study technique keeps me focused. for french i find it much easier to immerse myself through podcasts/reading/tv shows/writing/talking while in te reo māori the grammar and inherent logic of the language are challenging enough to me to keep my brain from shutting off. and i'm in no way saying that french comes easily to me, just that it's familiar enough to me that i would never be able to self study it by going through a book chapter by chapter as i'm doing with te reo because my brain isn't happy with the perceived lack of challenge/novelty.

#langblr #adhd #just some random thoughts #i feel like i don't consider how much adhd affects my learning success often enough #like i'm aware of it in theory but i seldom really stop to consider what i need specifically to make things work for me #personal