KORERO MAI - SPEAK TO ME - KORERO MAI - SPEAK TO ME SERIES 1 PROGRAMME 45

Matai Smith and Gabrielle Paringatai present a Maori language learning programme using a bilingual drama to tell the story of the daily lives of a group of contemporary Maori to illustrate the use and meaning of Maori words and phrases, today a revision show covering the use of the sentence prefix kei te to indicate the present tense and kaore i te to negate a sentence in the present tense, nei, na and ra endings to indicate the relationship of an object to the speaker, new words whakatiki, tinana, aro, reo, rongo, pukuriri, kai, wehe, pau and whakatiwheta, colloquial expression engari mo tena, a new song, a discussion of traditional Maori attitudes to things that come from the body and finally more revision of the previous episodes' words and language patterns.