Reo Ora – Ko te Weu Level Three
A Māori Language Course for Intermediate Learners
This language course follows on from the Level 1 and 2 course for beginners that taught thirty sentence patterns and commonly used words, giving learners basic conversational Māori. This intermediate level course introduces another twenty sentence patterns that are primary sentence structures of te reo Māori. The book steps through modules that teach the grammar and sentence patterns and show these used in examples. Learning is reinforced through repetition of sentence patterns and written exercises, and in each module learners also access an online episode of a short movie where characters use the sentence structures in the story.
Dr Rāpata Wiri (Ngāti Ruapani, Tūhoe, Te Arawa) is a Māori language expert. He has taught Māori language, culture, history and society in universities in New Zealand and Hawai‘i for over twenty-five years. He has also worked as a historian and researcher for iwi on Treaty of Waitangi claims. In 2019, he established an online course for people to learn te reo Māori, www.reoora.com, and this now has over a thousand learners enrolled at certificate and diploma levels.
