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Article  •  24 March 2024

 

Where to start with: Māori Made Easy

Keen to start your language learning journey but don't know where to begin? Scotty Morrison's bestselling series is the resource you need!

Back in 2015 we published Scotty Morrison's groundbreaking language guide, Māori Made Easy. Nine years later with almost 500,000 copies sold across the series, there's STILL so much left to learn! These books are designed to be fun, effective and easy. Whatever your language goals, the Māori Made Easy series is a great jumping-off point. 

Māori Made Easy Pocket Guide Scotty Morrison

The newest addition to the series is also the smallest! A fun and easy-to-use guide for anyone who wants to use a bit of reo in their everyday life, and a perfectly transportable size.

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Maori Made Easy Scotty Morrison

Where it all began! While other language guides simply offer common phrases, Maori Made Easy connects the dots, allowing the reader to take control of their learning in an empowering way.

 

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Maori at Home Scotty Morrison, Stacey Morrison

Kati te whakaporearea i to tuahine! | Stop annoying your sister!

Whether you’re practising sport, getting ready for school, celebrating a birthday, preparing a shopping list or relaxing at the beach, Maori at Home is a highly practical resource for everyday New Zealanders, covering the basics of life in and around a typical Kiwi household.

 

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Māori at Work Scotty Morrison

Hika ma, i kino te huarahi i te ra nei! | Wow, the traffic was shocking this morning!

The must-have guide to using te reo at work. Offering phrases and tips for greetings and welcoming people, emails and letters, speeches and social media, with specific chapters on the office, construction and roadworks, retail, hospitality, broadcasting and teaching.

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Kete 1: Māori Made Easy Workbook Scotty Morrison

If you want some guided exercises on your te reo journey, the Kete workbooks are a great resource. This is the first in a series of eight workbooks, created to accompany the Maori Made Easy series. Kete 1 features exercises on pronunciation, numbers, greetings and farewells, action phrases and personal pronouns.

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Maori Made Easy Scotty Morrison

If you prefer listening over reading, the audiobook of Maori Made Easy is for you! Listening to Scotty, repeating after him, and practising words and phrases mimics real-life language use and deploys techniques proven to accelerate confidence and knowledge.

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