The welcome upsurge in learning and speaking of the Māori language continues to gather pace across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Along with the growing use of te reo in daily life, demand is such that places in night classes are hard to secure and there’s a shortfall in resources to make learning the language efficient and enjoyable.
In Te Reo Māori: The Basics Explained, seasoned author and language teacher David Kārena-Holmes helps answer that demand.
With his simple and methodical approach, David explains in simple terms the building blocks of grammar in te reo, showing how to create phrases, sentences and paragraphs.
The book employs real-life examples to illustrate how Māori grammar works day to day.
Te Reo Māori: The Basics Explained draws on David’s previous books and decades of experience teaching and writing about Māori language to provide an essential companion for speakers at any level.
Nelson Public Libraries will be hosting a presentation by David about the book this Saturday 8 February; click here to find out more.
The author
David Karena-Holmes has been a tutor of Māori grammar at schools and institutions in New Zealand since the 1980s. This is his third book on the subject. He contributes a fortnightly newspaper column on te reo, and his poetry and other writings have been widely published. David lives in Whakatū/Nelson.
Publication: 5 February 2020 | ISBN: 978-0-947506-69-8 | RRP $34.99
Paperback, 210 x 148 mm portrait, 168 pages b&w
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