Language

Deborah Cameron Professor of Language and Communication at Oxford University who is visiting New Zealand to deliver two lectures: Our Tremendous Opportunity: a Look at the Hidden History of BBC… Audio

It seems that Wellington entrepreneur Jack Yan will never give up his dream to be our capital city's next mayor. Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets the man to find out what's driving this dream and what he's… Audio

The Māori word of the week is: whakaata - mirror. Tirohia te whakaata. Look in the mirror. Audio

Actor, and director of Mt Zion Tearepa Kahi, is about to stage William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in te reo, to mark Matariki. He joins Wallace to talk about the challenges of translating the… Audio

Noelle McCarthy reads messages from listeners to the Saturday Morning programme of 4 July 2015. Audio

New Zealand author of over 30 publications and screenplays, who has been awarded 2015's $100,000 Michael King Writer's Fellowship, to research and write a biographical study of four largely unknown… Audio

Why is spelling so hard even for some literate people? Professor Geoffrey Nunberg is an American linguist, researcher and an adjunct professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. His latest book… Audio

After translating a small and seemingly innocuous work of literary fiction 'The Gangsters' by Lefkios Zafiriou from Greek into English, Hellenic Studies Prof. Stathis Gauntlett then encountered an… Audio

The old Chinese proverb turning stone into jade refers to the meticulous carving of a piece of stone to turn it into a ritualistic jade amulet. The metaphor itself applies to how generations of… Audio

The Māori word of the week is: tākuta - doctor. Mā te tākuta koe e tiaki. The doctor will tend to you. Audio

Remember when you couldn't turn on the radio or open a newspaper without reading about twerking? Audio

Mark Cunningham – known as Marko to the locals in Thailand – is a Kiwi from Upper Hutt. Marko survived the Boxing Day Tsunami in 2004 and joined local volunteers to collect bodies. These days Marko is… Audio, Gallery

There's a new mosque in the township of Taihape and it can proudly call itself the highest Islamic Centre in New Zealand at 440m above sea level. It was initiated by Constable Abu after he encountered… Audio, Gallery

The Māori word of the week is: tohutō - macron. Kei warewaretia te tohutō. Don't forget the macron. Audio

Professor Russell Gray, FRSNZ, is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. Audio

The Education Minister's under increasing pressure to demand the resignation of the Kohanga Reo National Trust board. Audio

The role of interpreters and translators in conflict and crisis management - with president of the International Federation of Translators (FIT) Dr. Henry Liu. Audio

The Māori word of the week is: whetū - star. Ko Meremere-tūahiahi te whetū tuatahi o te pō. The first star at night is Venus. Audio

A story about "grass roots level" life changes for very isolated new Asian migrants in Auckland South. Some students will walk for miles just so they don't miss their weekly ESOL (English as a second… Audio, Gallery