the language is strengthened through language nests and homework centres
Also called kohanga reo
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Can they imagine the difference that $55 million might have made to local kohanga reo - the difference that it might have made to what local language nests do in the community?
Preschool Maori children attend Kohanga-reo (language nests) to learn Maori.
These are the groups who should now act as poster children for minority languages: the Maori boys and girls in pre-school "language nests", the artists and producers who mutate the mass media in Welsh, the Catalan activists who have peacefully forced Spain to rethink its identity.
Language nests or kohanga reo have been established for pre-school children, and many Maori people aim at bilingualism.
He emailed seven Tuhoe language nests this month saying that another tribal organisation, Te Uru Taumata, had asked for more support for Iti.
Can the Prime Minister confirm that culturally appropriate programmes such as Pacific Island language nests are essential to targeting on the basis of need?
Those who went before to try and secure land for the tangata whenua, to establish kohanga reo (language nests) and kura kaupapa (schools) where te reo is the first language.
Is this like children in the north of Scotland being taught Gaelic as their mother tongue, or New Zealand kids (in some 'language nest' schools) being taught exclusively in Maori?
Language nest programs (schools that involve total immersion in an ancestral language) have produced thousands of new speakers of Maori.
We have our language nests, kohanga reo, where a minority send their children to learn Te Reo but New Zealanders in general still see Te Reo Maori as an option not a necessity.