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
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

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, type ‘Taringa’ or ‘Ako’ into your podcast app.
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

Organise a lunch time te reo Māori lesson
Attend a lunchtime reo seminar online
Take some te reo lessons online
Practice your pronunciation and learn the Māori alphabet
Learn about Māori place names with Sonny
Watch a reo Māori learning show
Join the ‘A Māori Phrase a Day’ learning group on Facebook by Hēmi Kelly
Set out to learn a word a day for a year – see 365 Māori words

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!

Pānui | Read

Spend your lunch hour reading a te reo Māori book, 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.
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 theselabels.
Hear Professor Rawinia Higgins talk about the thinking behind the Māori Language Act 2016
For rangatahi or Marvel lovers, read Māori legend comics in te reo or English with Sanctuary: Pūrakau Evolution.

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