25 Jul 2015

Pronouncing Māori words

From Saturday Morning, 11:32 am on 25 July 2015
Finnian Galbraith.

Finnian Galbraith. Photo: Supplied.

Finnian Galbraith is a 15-year-old Kāpiti College student whose Year 10 school speech 'The importance of correctly pronouncing Māori words' has had over 230,000 views on YouTube. He is calling for compulsory Te Reo classes in primary schools in New Zealand.

He and Arapata Hakiwai discuss keeping Te Reo alive.

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