Te Hiku OKORO Professional Development Te Reo Maori 2022

Te Hiku OKORO  Professional Development Te Reo Maori 2022

Te Hiku Okoro is a Te Reo Maori learning initiative promoted for teachers to learn and grow in confidence with Te Reo Maori.

Different classes are levelled to accommodate different abilities, knowledge and it is also about confidence.

Our group has been working on being able to pronounce the basic short and long vowels.

a,e,i,o,u

a = Are

e = There

I = Three

O = Or

U = Two

Tohu To Long vowels. A,e,I,o,u, tohuto (macrons)

We have also been learning to pronounce OROTAKI/CONSONANTS.

h k m n ng p r t w wh

h k m n p w are pronounced similar to English

ng, r, t, wh are a little different and require a bit more Practice

First Consonant work

Ng pronounced like singer nga nge ng ingo ngu

Rr Pronounced like cats purr ra re ri ro ru

Rapu rare

Tt pronounced ta, te, ti, to tu

Wh pronounced like English f.

Wha

Another aspect of our work today has been Kuoro/SYLLABLES ( song remember A ha ka ma nga etc)

A ha ka ma na pa ra ta wa nga wha

E he ke me ne ne pe re te we nge whe

I hi ki mi ni ri t iwi ngi whi

O ho ko mo no po ro to wo ngo who

U hu ku mu nu ru tu wu ngu whu

 

Lastly we had a go at Oro Tapara / Dipthongs    (ororua)

Combination of vowel sounds

Ae, ai, ao, au

Ea,ei,eo,eu

Ia, ie, io, iu

Oa, oe, oi, ou

The day was light hearted but had a serious bent in as much as we have real objectives and a fairly heavy course load to consider for the rest of the year, this including online mahi, zoom koreros, and block course work at our local kura.

Some aspects were also important to remember that games, songs, rhymes and chants are an intrinsic part of learning Te Reo Maori as in fact they would be for most languages, we all remember rhymes and songs learned in childhood even if the reasons and knowledge for those rhymes are not generally understood, Ring o Rosies is according to most scholars not an interpretation of the Black Death (a 20^th century interpretation) but may have earlier roots in European dance and folk law. Perhaps derived from pagan celebrations as many of our European customs are based on today.

I look forward to seeing the course work and the things we can work on in the future.