Māori Culture and Language

www.maori.cl

This is a cultural resource for those interested in learning more about the Māori culture and language.

Maori.cl is run and maintained by Rob W. a founding member of the Kapa Haka Group in Santiago, Chile. He is a kiwi (that's someone from New Zealand, not the fruit) who lived in Chile for 20 years and enjoyed teaching everything to do with Aotearoa (New Zealand). Unfortunately the Kapa Haka group is no longer active in Chile as our awesome Māori leader had to move to another country and Rob also returned back to NZ.

Here you will find a list of Māori songs that we used to perform with their English and Spanish translations. An example can be seen here: E Te Ariki

Rob loves languages so he started to create some pages where YOU can learn the Māori Language starting from the basics. He also paid for a fluent Māori speaker (who was in Chile for a couple of months) to write the Traditional Māori Hangi guide (we had quite a few of them here in Santiago - YUM!), he also wrote about Māori Proverbs (with their English "translations") and extra Te Reo (Māori Language) lessons to help us learn some more about the language. Those lessons will be added in the future.

Rob also wrote about The Haka in Spanish (El haka en español) in case you know any Spanish speakers who would like to learn more about it.

We really hope you enjoy the information here and find it useful. We would love to add more about Māori culture and hopefully we are able to in the future.

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