Language

Correcting English grammar could actually be futile as a number of rules which are enforced are actually incorrect themselves. Audio

Three Minutes Max, New Zealand commentators with succinct opinions. Here's Latin teacher Robert Griffiths on the importance of keeping what some consider a 'dead' subject alive. Audio

More and more book titles use coarse language to gain attention - is it the result of a desperate need to grab readers' attention? Audio

David Kārena-Holmes is a Maori language tutor whose classes in Nelson have proved so popular he has to keep getting bigger venues. Audio

Advocates for trigger warnings have made strong claims about their benefits, but Dr Christian Jarrett has studied a wealth of research and doesn't think we are able to brace ourselves emotionally when… Audio

Researchers at the University of Exeter analysed the lyrics of more than 15,000  songs published between 1965 and 2015 and found that popular songs are getting sadder. Dr. Charlotte Brand was one of… Audio

Having been enticed by a love of Spanish art and flamenco guitar, New Zealand artist and poet Charles Olsen arrived in Spain in 2003 with the intention of staying for a month. Seventeen years later… Audio

What use is a language no-one else in New Zealand can speak? Ena Manuireva has the answer and is on a Mangareva mission that looks close to impossible: He wants to save his native tongue from… Audio

The most common surname for babies born in New Zealand last year was Singh - evidence of new generations of immigrants. How are those children living a kiwi life without losing their own cultures?  Audio

The aim of having one million New Zealanders speak basic te reo by 2040 might not be as impossible as it seems. Audio

Former Wikipedian-at-large Mike Dickison talks about the issues in getting the online encyclopedia to use macrons for Māori place names. Audio

Decimate originally came from a term for taxation, then became a word for killing one in ten people. That meaning has changed, but some people don't want to let go. Audio

Three times a week, we'll check in with Hemi Kelly, to learn some useful te reo Māori phrases you can use in your day-to-day life.  Audio

The world's most popular langauge-learning app, Duolingo, will add Te Reo Maori to its range of courses this year - but potential students are being told it's not the only tool that should be used to… Audio

Te Reo Maori will be added to the world's most popular language learning app by the end of the year.

Duolingo has more than 300 million users around the world, largely learning languages like… Audio

A group of academics and indigenous language advocates are using technology and books to try to revive an endangered aboriginal language. Video, Audio

A new study set out to find whether people responded differently to the presence or absence of political hashtags in news stories in major publications. Study co-author Eugenia Ha Rim Rho is with us… Audio