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10/06/2026

I waste way too much time trying to decide what to cook for dinner 😭

It’s always much easier when someone else decides 🤣

Have a go at today’s quiz and see if you can remember which reo Māori pronoun we’d use in this situation 👀👇🏽

08/06/2026

I’ve heard some pretty creative versions of my name over the years…

Kyrie, Kir-eye, Cherie 😳😬🤣

But honestly, it’s a great excuse to talk about one of the trickiest sounds in te reo Māori 👀

Does anyone else have a name that people ALWAYS get wrong?🫣👇🏽👇🏽

04/06/2026

I am officially allowed to complain about the cold now! 🤣

The mornings are getting frosty, the beanies are out, and it’s definitely starting to feel like Hōtoke! ❄️

Does it snow where you are? 👀

31/05/2026

We’ve read our books so many times now, I honestly don’t know whether my tama is reading or just reciting from memory 😅

So recently we joined the local library, and every week we pick out a fresh stack of pukapuka to bring home.

📚 It’s quickly become one of our favourite little routines. Little man loves choosing the books and checking them out with his own library card.

Since it’s become such a regular part of our week, I thought, why not add some reo Māori in there too?

What part of YOUR routine can you add some reo to?

Start with:
👉🏽Kei te haere au ki te ______.
(I’m going to the ______.)

And have a go filling in the blank with a PLACE in the comments!

27/05/2026

👀 We’ve been practicing making Māori sentences lately, and these are some of the different kupu we can swap out to change WHEN the sentence is happening ✨

Our printable Tense Markers Cheat Sheet is a handy visual reminder at a glance and is available now from
👉🏽 www.MoaThanWords.com

23/05/2026

Why doesn’t English have this?! 👀

At first all the different pronouns in te reo Māori felt like A LOT 😵‍💫

But the more I learn, the more I realise it actually makes so much sense to clarify WHO is included when we say “we” 😂

Māua = me and one other person (sorry… not you 😬)
Tātou = all of us together (yep, you’re invited 🥳)

👉🏽 The printable Pronouns Cheat Sheet from the video is available on the website at MoaThanWords.com if you want a visual reminder to stick up on your wall too 😜

21/05/2026

😂 The way Mum would casually ruin your plans with: “your little sibling is coming too” 😭

Pronouns in te reo Māori can actually get really specific, which is why “we” changes depending on who’s included.

In this little example:

Māua = me and one other person (not you 😬)
Tātou = all of us together (you’re included 🥳)

Examples like this make it way easier to SEE the difference instead of trying to memorise a giant list of definitions 🤪

If you want help remembering these plus the other main pronouns we use in te reo Māori, we’ve got a printable Pronouns Cheat Sheet available at:
👉🏽www.MoaThanWords.com

18/05/2026

👀 Have a go e te whānau!

One of these reo Māori statements LOOKS right at first...
but its pants are on fire 🔥😏

👇🏽 Comment which one is the LIE below!

14/05/2026

🤦🏽‍♀️ I genuinely thought learning te reo Māori meant memorising THOUSANDS of kupu and sentences…

…but it’s actually way more like swapping LEGO pieces 👀

The more I learn, the more I realise so many sentences are just patterns with different kupu swapped in and out.

“Kei te pēhea koe?” is one we hear ALL the time, but I never realised it follows the exact same bead structure we’ve already been practising:

WHEN > WHAT > WHO

And once you understand that structure, answering the question becomes SO much easier because you’re not trying to memorise sentence structure anymore 😭

You’re just swapping the middle bead 👀

✨ pai
✨ ngenge
✨ māuiui

Our “Feelings” in te Reo Māori poster is available to print at MoaThanWords.com so you can add even more kupu to your kete!

👇🏽 Have a go in the comments!
Kei te pēhea koe?

11/05/2026

🤦🏽‍♀️ Why didn’t I realise this sooner?

Kei te > pēhea > koe
is just a 3 bead sentence?!

Now > how > you?

And if you swap the middle bead out with how your feeling, you can answer the question!

🤩 How easy is that?!

Our feeling kupu sheet is available on the website:

👉🏽 https://moathanwords.com/shop/kare-a-roto-maori-feelings-kids-poster/

So you can use them and let us know
how YOU are feeling? 💬👇🏽

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