Language

After decades of collecting te reo Māori words for sports terms, sports commentator Hemana Waaka discovered he'd come up with something like an encyclopedia. The 77-year-old is sharing his knowledge… Audio

Mohamed Alansari, senior researcher for the New Zealand Council for Educational Research joins Kathryn to talk about how to improve outcomes for growing Te Reo Maori in schools. Which schools are… Audio

Mahuru Maori, the month long kaupapa aiming to normalise te reo in everyday situations is back for 2023. Mahuru Maori challenges participants to consciously use as much te reo Maori as they can during… Audio

Aotearoa isn't the only place celebrating and embracing Māori language this te wiki o te reo Māori. 

With podcasts, online classes, kapa haka and kōhanga reo, whānau living overseas are doing their… Audio

A petition has been launched to establish an officially recognised Moriori Language Week, in an effort to save the language from extinction. Moriori are the original inhabitants of Rēkohu, the Chatham… Audio

Susan Goldin-Meadow is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and one of the world foremost experts on gestures. She has found that gestures express substantive information which… Audio

Earlier this week long-time Maori activist and author Te Ringa Mangu 'Dun' Mihaka died. Mihaka devoted decades of his life to Maori rights campaigns, including the 1977-78 Takaparawhau/Bastion Point… Audio

We're not far away from kicking off this year's Rugby World Cup. For the event Sky Sport is offering Te Reo commentary, as well as English. Audio

Can't speak te reo Māori? According to a new University of Canterbury study, New Zealanders who aren't fluent in the language can still identify a lot of Māori words based on how they look and sound.