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words-and-coffee · 6 months
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Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē
[ID: A poem titled: Kupu rere kē. [in italics] My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. The convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: every potential reader is reassured that although you're expected to understand the rest of the text, it's fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged — but after a while I could see she had a point: when the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in -[end italics]- Aotearoa -[italics]- and which do not.
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ayin-me-yesh · 3 months
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In light of Duolingo laying off its translators, here are my favourite language apps (primarily for Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, and te reo Māori).
Multiple Languages
Anki is a flashcard programme and app that's not exclusively for languages. While making your own decks is ideal, you can also download shared decks for most languages.
If you're learning Japanese, specifically, Seth Clydesdale has websites for practicing alongside Genki's 2nd or 3rd editions, and he also provides his own shared Anki decks for Genki.
And if you're learning te reo Māori, specifically, here's a guide on how to make your own deck.
TOFU Learn is an app for learning vocabulary that's very similar to Anki. However, it has particularly excellent shared decks for East Asian languages. I've used it extensively for practicing 汉字. Additionally, if you're learning te reo Māori, there's a shared deck of vocabulary from Māori Made Easy!
Mandarin Chinese
Hello Chinese is a fantastic app for people at the HSK 1-4 levels. While there's a paid version, the only thing paying unlocks is access to podcast lessons, which imo are not really necessary. Without paying you still have access to all the gamified lessons which are laid out much like Duolingo's lessons. However, unlike Duolingo, Hello Chinese actually teaches grammar directly, properly teaches 汉字, and includes native audio practice.
Japanese
Renshuu is a website and app for learning and practicing Japanese. The vast majority of its content is available for free. There's also a Discord community where you can practice alongside others.
Kanji Dojo is a free and open source app for learning and practicing the stroke order of kanji. You can learn progressively by JLPT level or by Japanese grades. There's also the option to learn and practice kana stroke order as well.
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mwagneto · 2 years
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genuinely about to cry at the word for france in te reo māori. so like. almost every country name is just the english name but altered to only have letters that exist in te reo (so like canada = kānata, norway = nōwei etc) except france that is literally just fucking. wīwī. as in ouioui. imgoing to fucking die
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Te Wiki o te Reo Māori/Māori Language Week, 11–17 o Hepetema (September) 2023
Interested in learning te reo Māori? Here are some mihi (greetings) and pronunciation tips to start you off:
Saying hello
Kia ora – Hello (also used to say ‘thanks’)
Kia ora kōrua – Hello to two people
Kia ora koutou – Hello to everyone
Tēnā koe – Hello (more formal than kia ora)
Tēnā koutou – Greetings (said to three or more people)
Nau mai, haere mai – Welcome
Kei te pēhea koe? – How’s it going?
Saying goodbye
Ka kite/Ka kite anō – See you later (informal)
Haere rā – Goodbye (said to someone who is leaving)
E noho rā – Goodbye (said to someone who is staying)
Saying thank you
Kia ora is a general expression of appreciation, as well as a greeting. 
Tēnā koe (to one person), tēnā kōrua (to two people) or tēnā koutou (to three or more people) also mean thank you. 
Ngā mihi – Acknowledgements
Pronunciation
Te reo Māori consists of five vowel sounds:
a (‘a’ as in ‘far’)
e (‘e’ as in ‘egg’)
i (‘i’ like the ‘ee’ in ‘tree’)
o (‘o’ as in ‘four’)
u (‘u’ like an ‘o’ in ‘to’)
Vowels can be long or short. A long vowel is signified with a macron above it. For example:
a (short vowel), as is papa (earth)
ā (long vowel), as in pāpā (father)
In addition to the eight consonants that sound similar to those in English—h, k, m, n, p, r, t and w—there is also ‘wh’ (similar to the English ‘f’) and ‘ng’ (sounds like the last half of the English word ‘sing’).
Tamata i te reira; try it out!
Don’t let whakamā (embarrassment) hold you back from giving it a go. Kia kaha katoa <3
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quinthetoucan · 8 months
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y'all please check out my friend alex's book!! its a free online resource for learning māori, the endangered indigenous language of new zealand, and we hope that it can help spread this beautiful language to even more people!
(plus this book is a blast hehe)
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ofmdtereomaori · 7 months
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sorry not sorry
(Kupu whakarite from Hona Black's He Iti Te Kupu: Māori Metaphors and Similes, buy the book)
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blackberryjambaby · 1 year
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some māori words to describe your māmae
(māmae is pain, hurt or injury, wairua is spirit, papatūānuku is the mother earth)
pōuri: grief, sadness.
ngākau pōuri: literally 'sad heart'. a heart-wrenching sadness, when your wairua is in great distress.
ngākau rua: literally 'two hearted'. when our wairua feels both negative & positive emotions simultaneously, as if we have two hearts.
pūtakotako: to be overcome with deep grief, when your wairua is deeply distressed.
ngaukino: a long-lasting emotional reaction that happens as a result of witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event.
whakaaroha: to be heart-wrenching, pitiful or poignant.
nekeneke: when our minds jump from one thing to another, an inability to concentrate or focus for extended periods of time.
hūkokikoki: to be emotionally unstable or erratic, jumping between emotions quickly. if someone's having a bit of a wobble, they're hūkokikoki.
wainuku: bad mood or feeling low. originally comes from the sensation that our bodies & waters are dragging us towards papatūānuku
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after seeing some of the discourse about how a lot of people are drawing miguel o'hara with western/european features and being reminded of something that has been bugging me for a long time, i just wanted to give a little reminder for some people out there;
the clones of star wars, jango and boba fett are all literally fully modelled after temuera morrison. a māori actor who incorporates so much of our culture and heritage in his performances and as such, deserves to be recognisable as the physical inspiration of said characters in fanart of them. with features as distinctive as his, it just makes it so jarring to see images of the clones looking NOTHING like him.
and before anyone says it, i am fully aware that the clones in the clone wars don't really look like him either and that too bugs the hell outta me. At the very least try to incorporate his distinctive features in whatever form your particular art style takes.
that's just my opinion though. you can have your own.
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schar-aac · 3 days
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"Aotearoa"
Image: The outline of Aotearoa, also known as 'New Zealand,' coloured in green, with a long white cloud on the right of it. It partially covers the land, and is somewhat transparent where they overlap. Aotearoaa is literally the 'land of the long white cloud'.
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takataapui · 7 months
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Ko tāku toi tēnei mō te wiki o te reo
Māori.
Ko uaua tāku reo. He taonga reo. E rua, e rua. Ki ōku tūpuna, kia whakarongo
au ki a koutou. Ka tarai au.
Kia kaha Te Reo Māori ❤️🖤
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Tāku kōrero i te reo Pākehā:
This is my art for Māori Language week.
My language is hard. It is a treasure. These both are true.
To my ancestors, I will/am listening to you. I will try.
Be strong, Māori language.
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optimisticslytherin · 7 months
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Hoziers "Butchered Tongue" hits so hard.
I should speak Te Reo as fluently as english.
My mothers first language should have been Te Reo.
My Nan and koro should not have had their language beaten from them as children.
I mourn something that was taken from me generations ago, something my mother mourns, and my grandmothers before her.
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words-and-coffee · 6 months
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Kupu rere kē My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems. This advice came from a well-meaning woman with NZ poetry on her business card and an English accent in her mouth. I have been thinking about this advice. The convention of italicising words from other languages clarifies that some words are imported: it ensures readers can tell the difference between a foreign language and the language of home. I have been thinking about this advice. Marking the foreign words is also a kindness: every potential reader is reassured that although you’re expected to understand the rest of the text, it’s fine to consult a dictionary or native speaker for help with the italics. I have been thinking about this advice. Because I am a contrary person, at first I was outraged — but after a while I could see she had a point: when the foreign words are camouflaged in plain type you can forget how they came to be there, out of place, in the first place. I have been thinking about this advice and I have decided to follow it. Now all of my readers will be able to remember which words truly belong in Aotearoa and which do not.
Alice Te Punga Somerville, Always Italicise: How to Write While Colonised - Kupu rere kē
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ayin-me-yesh · 1 year
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If you're trying to learn te reo Māori, this channel is awesome because it not only has lessons in English, but in several other languages as well!
Los hispanohablantes pueden aprender te reo maorí aquí.
Les francophones peuvent apprendre le te reo Māori ici.
Chi parla italiano può imparare il te reo Māori qui.
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chekhovs-tantrum · 8 months
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-John and his best friend, G—, both Maori (or is Jod mixed?). We don't know G's original name or whether it was Maori, but from Wikipedia: Both L and G are also encountered in the Southern dialect, though not in standard Māori. So G's original name was either Southern dialect or not Maori at all. 
-When John resurrects G— he renames him a white Christian name, and not even the Maori version. 
-John has a kid who comes preset with the name of his resurrected bestie. When he reconstructs her, he gives her the Maori version of the name. 
I'm not sure what I'm asking here, but it feels like there's a Thing I'm missing as a white American. Here, slapping Christian names on Native American kids who were violently forced to "forget" their culture was a huge part of our genocide. 
For Kiwi folk, was John erasing Maori culture in giving his actually-Maori friend a whitewashed name? (are there even Maori options that begin with G?) And if not, why was it more important to John to keep G's first initial rather than to grant him a connection with the culture that G literally took a bomb for, and why does he reverse this course with his daughter after 10,000 years? 
There are SUCH good posts here about Maori culture and the way it influences characters or stands out in the books (thinking about the one about how Griddle's humor has an edge of Kiwi passive-aggression, or the one about nuclear things/NZ/Maori folks). I so badly want to learn and understand more, please let's amplify those voices/if my mutuals see good posts about it please tag me or send them to me
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A whakataukī (proverb) in te reo Māori: Aroha mai, aroha atu. Love received (flowing towards us), love returned (flowing out from us).
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"My friend was advised to italicise all the foreign words in her poems."
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