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Everyday te Reo – Building your Confidence


8 week course - Online Via Zoom

Tuesdays 8th Aug – 26 Sept

2:15 - 3:15pm

$120

Joan, sitting in a blue chair and leaning right, smiles off left in front of a blank white wall.

Haere tonu tātou | Let's keep going!     

The whanake ako\ learning continues in this Everyday Te Reo – Building your confidence class with Joan Costello. This fun, relaxed, and encouraging online course runs waru wiki (8 weeks) and is a perfect continuation of your journey from our Intro and Next Steps classes.  Throughout the eight-weeks, you will journey into the intrinsic spirituality and tikanga of the reo.

Joan Costello has been teaching Te Reo Māori for over 25 years, igniting people’s confidence, speaking ability and introduction to te ao Māori.

Kaua e pupuri i tō ake kete, whangai atu ki te ao

Don’t hold it in your own basket, feed it out to the world

This course will be delivered online through Zoom.

  • Recap on Intro and Next Steps courses.

  • Role playing everyday scenes, to recap what we have learnt to date -  and expanding on our understandings and confidence and familiarity of time, counting, locatives and imperatives.

  • Plural pronouns and their unique differences from those used in the English language.

  • Possessive pronouns. Using them in the sentence structures we’ve learnt and adding more.

  • Discussion about tikanga and the Māori world view, allowing deeper understanding and appreciation to develop.

 

To book: email: sascha.perfect@wcc.govt.nz