What you do to start learning and speaking is up to you but you won’t be alone.

There are people from all sorts of backgrounds and levels of ability needed to revitalise te reo Māori, so get started using our ideas below. See how you can incorporate te reo Māori into your everyday life and be one in a million speakers by 2040.

It could be as easy as playing a Māori language song, starting your Zoom call with "mōrena", or starting lunch with a karakia!

Tēnā tirohia ēnei whakaaro whakatairanga - kōwhiria, mahia!

So check out these ideas - choose and use!

Huatau | Ideas

Kōrero | Speak

Make ‘kia ora’ your first choice of greeting to everyone you speak to.
Learn how to introduce yourself in te reo Māori.
Prepare your whānau, friends or workplace to speak te reo Māori for the hour.
Open your news bulletin with te reo Māori.
Host a ‘Kōrero Kai’ for lunch where you only speak in te reo Māori.
Start lunch off with a karakia for kai.
Order your coffee in te reo Māori.
Set a ‘reo Māori only’ zone within your workplace or home.
Hear Professor Rawinia Higgins talk about revitalising te reo Māori.

Whakarongo | Listen

Listen to te reo Māori only for the day.
Play our ‘Te Wiki o te Reo Māori’ playlist in your business or workplace for everyone to hear!
Listen to a podcast and sharpen up your reo. For beginners try 'Everyday Māori' by Hēmi Kelly for easy, bite-sized lessons. For intermediate learners, listen to 'Ako' and 'Ōpaki' hosted by Pania Papa. We love 'Taringa' hosted by Paraone Gloyne, a discussion based reo and tikanga podcast for levels.
Turn on the radio or go online and tune into your local iwi radio station.
Tune in to Māori Television.
Listen to Hinewehi Mohi sing our national anthem in te reo Māori at the 1999 Rugby World Cup in England.

Ako | Learn

Find a reo course using our helpful guide - from beginner online courses to full immersion.
Take some te reo lessons online. Learn vocabulary based around a role-play as well as a small number of sentence structures with Tōku Reo
Practice your pronunciation and learn the Māori alphabet.
Learn about Māori place names with Sonny.
Watch Māori Television or download the app.
For intermediate learners, Ōpaki and Ako will help to improve your reo - hosted by Pania Papa.
Hēmi Kelly shares short and easy-to-digest learning videos on Pukamata (Facebook) and Paeāhua (Instagram).
Set out to learn a word a day for a year – see 365 Māori words.
Sign up to get a word a day with Kupu o te Rā.
Learn about the history of te reo Māori.

Tākaro | Play

Host a te reo Māori quiz and test your organisation’s knowledge. Use our quiz questions to set-up your own - some are easy, some are hard, so grab some friends and a Māori dictionary!
See Pania Papa’s video on easy Māori games to play with no equipment.
Download some Māori apps and play with your tamariki. See Pāpapa, Pipi Mā Tae, find more apps here.
Create and host an online Kahoot quiz with your whānau and friends!
Te Whanake provide awesome textbooks for every level to work through at your own pace.
Tipu on iOS and Android is a game where you memorise new kupu and phrases.

Pānui | Read

Learn by reading these Māori language learning books: for beginners, try ‘Māori at Home’ ‘Māori 4 Work’ and ‘A Māori Phrase a Day’.
For intermediate and higher see Mai i te Kakano, Te Rito and He Iti Kahurangi.
The Kuwi and Friends Māori Picture Dictionary is a fun, easy-to-use resource for those wanting to discover, learn and use everyday words. The illustrations are designed to help with comprehension, particularly for younger learners.
Read the reo rua articles on Stuff NZ and share them with your organisation.
Use the signage list to put up signs around your workplace or try these print-ready labels.
For bilingual books and mātauranga Māori books, see Māori book publishers Te Tākupu.
For rangatahi or Marvel lovers, read Māori legend comics in te reo or English with Sanctuary: Pūrakau Evolution.
Spend your lunch hour reading a te reo Māori novel.
100 Pukapuka has a mission to publish 100 Books in te reo Māori. Available for purchase now is Hare Pota me te Whatu Manapou (Harry Potter book #1), Te Ruānuku (The Alchemist), Nōu te Ao, e Hika e! (Oh, the Places You'll Go!).
To build your kete kīwaha with metaphors and similies see He Iti Te Kupu by Hona Black.

Waiata | Sing

Get a group together and sing an easy te reo song, see ’Tūtira Mai’ ‘Te Aroha’ ‘National Anthem’.
Do or teach lunchtime kapa haka.
Learn some waiata hou and sing along to our ‘Te Wiki o te Reo Māori’ playlist.
Learn and sing the Māori alphabet.
Listen to our waiata, Mahuru, which celebrates Māori Language Week.