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Kohunga reo.
Topic Started: 31 Dec 2013, 08:05 AM (124 Views)
Sandy
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The kohunga reo's started up over 20 years ago.. To explain what they are, the best way to describe them is to say that they're the maori version of our pre schools, the children go there from the age of 2 or 3 until 5 years of age when they start normal school..

Kohunga is basically the same as pre school except the children learn maori there, and a little culture etc too.. Usually by the time they start school at 5 years old they're quite good at speaking maori..

The children are encouraged to speak maori as a primary language while in kohunga reo, very little english is spoken there.. If english is spoken, it's usually for the benefit of any new children there that haven't learnt much maori, and it's to explain the translations of words from one language to the other..

I quite like the idea of kohunga reo's because it means the language etc will live on rather than get lost like other languages have, or are..
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It is a good thing to keep the native language alive. I know here we are losing are language to slang words for everything. I think it is important to know your language and speak it as often as you can.
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Sandy
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It's good the children are learning now, at one point over 60% of the maori population only knew english, none of their own language..
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