Its important to know the language because I design website in New Zealand and it should benefit Te reo readers.

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I'm a school teacher and am celebrating with my class.

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Te reo Māori connects me to my tīpuna, I wish I had been taught te reo from them.

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To communicate with Maori people.

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I would like to be part of keeping te reo Maori alive.

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Kia kaha te reo Māori!

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To learn te reo Maori for my mokopuna.

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I feel in myself that I am missing out.

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Ko Te Reo Māori te reo tuturu o Aotearoa!

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I want to be a part of this massive , beautiful, ancient culture, that is all about family, love and welcoming everyone.

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To celebrate and honour culture, language and diversity.

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It is important because of my Māori Whakapapa and I know my ancestors who have lived and passed before me need me to be their voice, through consistent learning, speaking te reo as much as possible & teach our own tamariki te reo Māori.

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Kia kaha te reo Maaori.

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Kia tautoko te i kaupapa nei.

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to study.

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Te Reo Maori has had a big influence on the person I have become.

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For me it is personal.

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because I want to learn and understand more te reo Maori and be part of making it used more in our everyday life by all of us in Aotearoa.

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We got involved because we are a group building a new way for our lives and want to have as much positive stuff as possible in it.

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We, as a school, embrace te reo and Te Ao Māori.

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To acknowledge that Te Reo Māori is inportant.

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Maaori te whenua.

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Kia kaha Te reo Maori.

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I have also wanted to learn to converse in Maori.

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to help deaf adults to do sign languages to communication each others in Te Reo Maori,.

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Because my language is beautiful and there is so much depth and meaning to our kupu.

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To connect.

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It's my birth right, although learning Te Reo has slipped away from me, I am ready to take the Journey to not only learn my language but understand the essence of living in a Māori world.

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Te Reo is and should be Aotearoa's first and first official language, lets all be bilingual.

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I navigate myself by continuing the work of my tupuna, I uphold their mana; And perhaps the sharing of the taonga that is Māoritanga might inspire modern-day Aotearoa to further immerse in Te Ao Māori.

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E Arohaina ana te reo e au!

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because I can speak te Reo Maori .

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As part of the whole a "New Zealander" I feel it is important to honour the Tangatewhenua of this country by connecting using New Zealand's first language.

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He Māori ahau.

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Because learning about others enriches everyone.

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My ancestors couldn’t speak Te Reo Māori , so I speak and continue to learn Māori for my ancestors who couldn’t 🤎.

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I have made the commitment to learn te reo Māori in an 18 month course at my work place.

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Connecting to my roots, my whanau.

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To know the local language is a courtesy.

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For myself, my family & for my future tamariki to come.

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It's important to our programme to honour Māori and other Indigenous approaches to music and healing.

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Learn my language.

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Te reo is a beautiful language!

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To decolonise and pay homage!

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te reo Maori should be part of our daily life, it is our heritage.

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Growing up in Aotearoa I was always proud that te Reo was an official language, that was used in small ways by friends, whanau, and people around me.

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So my kids learn to.

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Culture and language go hand in hand.

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I just love Maori Culture, been brought up Maori family and friends I love it, makes me who I am today.

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I feel sad that Maori were forced to abandon their language.

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"Kōrero Māori i ngā wā katoa, i ngā wāhi katoa.

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Our commitment to the Te Tiriti o Waitangi living in Aotearoa .

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kia korero māori te ao katoa.

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Because I'm a New Zealander and I should know how to speak Maori .

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I have lived in Australia for 20 years but NZ is my home, my culture, my heritage.

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I am Maori and it’s important that people who live in our country have a better understanding of who I am as Maori.

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I must learn to honour my mother, to not forget my country of birth and to be connected .

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Tautoko I Te Kaupapa Kia kaha ake to tātou reo.

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I am maori and want to learn my Reo.

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Māori is apart of my culture and it’s important to me, I would love to learn more .

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To be respectful, to learn, to inquire, to observe and to hopefully, one day, know more!

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It is important because it is one of the languages of Aotearoa and should be spoken in everyday life as greetings or simple sentences by everyone.

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Te reo is important to our identity as New Zealanders.

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To keep our reo alive and spread our culture to those that maybe unaware of our whakapapa or their own connections.

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I am a Kaiako and a proud young maori Māmā.

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It would be a great sadness to allow for Maori language to be forgotten, as its part of New Zealand's heritage and identity.

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I am on my personal journey learning Te reo Maori for my family and I.

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Its about normalising the use of our language and making it fun for those who have limited experience with it.

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I just want to learn Te Reo Maori!

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It's part of my own whakapapa.

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I have just moved home to Aotearoa.

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Inspire and motivate others who have had a bad experience learning previously.

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As a New Zealander it is important to value te reo Māori as a toanga.

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to acknowledge and support our New Zealand history and understand a new culture.

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To honour my tupuna, especially my kuia, she was subjected to racism because she was Maori.

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To continue to learn, share and revitalise our taonga.

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Kia kaha Te reo Maori.

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Maori people and their language touched my life.

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Because Te Reo Maori is a fun thing to learn.

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I want to learn Māori because I think the Māori culture is very unique and that learning the language is a part of learning they’re culture .

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It is important to me to learn my native language.

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Its important as a Kiwi to respect the Maori culture by learning Te Reo.

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Because as a family for overseas we also believe that roots are important and showing respect and appreciation for your culture it’s the base of our learnings as a family , we are proud for having the chance to learn more about Maori culture .

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I have retired recently and now have more time on my hands to learn.

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Our Maaori language is unique specifically to Aotearoa .

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To have a better understanding of the language and culture.

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My why is my two children and my partner (soon to be husband).

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I love Maori language.

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It's important as new zealanders to learn about New Zealand culture and heritage.

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Maori is part of the world's language diversity and part of the human heritage of all of us.

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Being a kiwi.

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“Because it’s fun” says my eight-year-old tamahine :) And I say also because it’s just, right, beautiful, enlightening and powerful to kōrero in the first language of our whenua.

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learning te reo Māori is important to me because it is the reo of my tupuna and our whenua Aotearoa/NZ.

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Tangata whenua.

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I want to learn more about Maori people and improve my Maori language.

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Whoops I meant to sign up earlier.

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Because Te Reo Maori is not spoken anywhere else in the world.

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As a Maori wahine I think it is very important , it's apart of who I am.

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