Not New Year’s resolutions
Why have I been so quiet lately? Here’s a post to make up for all the silence. Featuring poetry goals, te reo, piano and running. Oh, and saving the world...
Tag: maori
Ngā Marama: singing the months
I wrote this little song, Ngā Marama, to help me learn the Māori months. It's kind of dorky, but did the trick.
Learning Māori puts a menemene on my kanohi
The Māori language class I’m taking is the most joyous part of my week. Everyone is there to learn. Everyone is welcoming. It's a diverse bunch of people from ...
A 91 year old man translated me into Māori
"Dear Marcel, I belong to a very small tutorial class (3) of Te Reo aspirants. We each present a small korero every Thursday. I chose to translate portions of y...
Calming our cultural nerves with Māori language
I would love to see the next generation of New Zealanders fluent in conversational Māori. I would love for it to be perfectly normal to hear at the supermarket:...
Names for things that don’t have names
I know I should be more concerned about whether or not to go to war against Isis, but every time I unload the dishwasher I find myself trying to come up with a ...