- Last year in our Māori class, we had a few
Pākehā boys who hardly knew any Māori at all. We kind of thought that they weren’t enjoying it, but
then you see them the next year coming back. It’s really cool to see that
they’re actually enjoying it and learning it, like actually liking te reo
Māori.
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- We hang down at our gym and there’s these
Pākehā boys, and they start speaking te reo. It’s a cool thing to see. And then
we can just go and speak it with them, just for fun, and they’re actually
having fun doing it.
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- He’s Pākehā. He took Māori right from the
junior years to senior year, and he’s near to a fluent level of speaking Māori.
He’s been one of the only Head Boys since I’ve been there, that will get up on
stage at the appropriate times and speak in Māori.
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- I guess being a New Zealander means you’ve
got the best of both worlds.
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