Once again our current govt shows it’s disdain for Maōri and te Tiriti.

  • BlueÆther@no.lastname.nz
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    18 days ago

    and I struggled all through school with reading and writing even in English (with dyslexia), that doesn’t mean that we should relegate Te Reo to an even more of a second class language.

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      17 days ago

      i just want to say fuck French root words in American English

      every shit word I cant spell without memory is fucking Latin -> French -> English

      lets start removing those

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      18 days ago

      Yeah, I suspect my son is a little dyslexic. He cannot write and may never be able to. He does Kapa Haka and I love the idea of him learning a bunch of Te Reo.

      However, every night that we force our way through a book where he is just getting lost makes him really despondent and kills his enthusiasm for reading.

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        18 days ago

        I understand what you are saying, not everyone learns in the same way. This seems to be less of an issue with texts that have Maōri words in them, and more of an issue if your son’s teacher not giving him texts that are appropriate to his learning (because they expect all kids to learn the same way). It’s fantastic that he is learning te reo through kapa haka.