Reo and tikanga: Rauemi
Want to begin your journey learning te reo Māori? Borrowed a Te Reo Kete, and want to explore more? Have a browse of further resources at the library for learning te reo Māori and exploring tikanga below.
Want to begin your journey learning te reo Māori? Borrowed a Te Reo Kete, and want to explore more? Have a browse of further resources at the library for learning te reo Māori and exploring tikanga below.
Whakataukī are proverbs that the person who first said it first, is not known. Whakatauākī are sayings of a particular person or iwi. Have a browse below to find sources of proverbs and wisdom from te ao Māori!
Did you know we also have eBooks and eAudiobooks that can help you on your reo journey? Below you'll find some lists and links we've put together to help you browse our eBooks and eAudiobooks!
Need help getting started? Find information about getting started with OverDrive/Libby and BorrowBox here.
Get started on your journey learning te reo Māori! In this list we've collected together popular adult resources from OverDrive and Libby for learning te reo Māori. Have a browse!
Learning te reo Māori or need to support a kura student at home learning to read? Have a browse of our books in te reo Māori for young readers!
Explore this te ao Māori booklist — there's lots here, from tikanga and learning te reo, to children's books in te reo and novels and biographies of Māori writers and leaders. Have a browse!
We have a much smaller collection of eBooks and eAudiobooks about learning te reo on BorrowBox, but these are still excellent resources and extra copies of some of the popular titles above! Have a browse below:
Ako Tahi means "Learn Together". It is a Te Reo Māori learning app that has been designed to help people learn the most commonly used Te Reo Māori phrases. Ako Tahi re-enforces learning through touch, vision, listening, speaking and by challenging yourself and others.
Mahau helps beginners with te reo words and pronunciation of everyday phrases and sentences. It also focuses on Wellington destinations and place names, and provides a function to help the user build their pepeha and mihimihi.
[Wellington City Council] developed Mahau alongside Ngāti Toa Rangatira and Taranaki Whānui, and it includes sections of the dialects, and introductory information about the iwi.
Te Ara Poutama, the faculty of Māori and indigenous development and the altLAB at Auckland University of Technology have developed an app to promote the spoken language of Aotearoa.
Kōrerorero meaning conversations, is an interactive learning tool developed to teach te reo Māori through listening, repetition and learning vocabulary and phrases that can be easily introduced into real life situations.
There are many more resources online that can support your reo journey — have a browse below!
Here's Keri [Opai] talking to Connie Buchanan [of E-Tangata] about why [his book] has struck a chord, and who he really wrote it for"
