Ruumakitia ko te Kaakano - Advanced Beginners Te Reo Maaori

Mondays, starting the 14th October

6pm - 8.30pm

It is recommended that you have some basic understanding and learning of Te Reo Maaori to enable you to participate in this class.

Immerse yourself into the world of definite and passive structures! This class will focus on the grammar, grammatical rules and learning of new sentence types.

The main purpose of the class is to make all of our learning relevant and usable in our every-day lives, not merely left in the notebook!

Ruumakitia ko te Kaakano is an Advanced beginner level Maaori language class that will focus on conversational social learning settings and styles to better instill our language in the same it was taught by our tuupuna, orally.

There will be 8 classes over the 9 week period. NO class Monday 28th October - Labour Day Public Holiday

This course is available to persons 16 years and over.

During this course we will study the following:

• Become familiarised with our tikanga, style of education and work on our pepeha, whakapapa and whaanau
• Reaffirm previous learnings, and expanding into common saying, phrases, greetings and emotions.
• Reaffirm previous learnings, and being to look at simple sentence structure.
• Sentences structures. Learning to understand tone, context and uses of the different structures.
• Learn a puuraakau, explore Maaori concepts, ideology and wider whakaaro.
• Using all learnt knowledge into making a puuraakau for our class, to act as a motif for future learning.

This course is supported by the TEC (Tertiary Education Commission) to assist with literacy and numeracy needs of students. You must attend 80% of the class. At the same time we hope you will learn other useful and interesting skills and have a lot of fun learning with us.