New Zealand Certificate in Te Reo Māori (He Pī Ka Rere) Level 3

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Strengthen your understanding and fluency in Te Reo Māori at an intermediate level and deepen your knowledge of Māori culture through this interactive, immersive, and bilingual Level 3 certificate.

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NZQA Level 3 Certification (60 Credits)

Study Level

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In-person study

Face-to-face learning in a physical classroom setting

Available in 3 locations

It will take a total of 18 weeks

This course requires 20 hours per week

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Use Te Reo Māori at an intermediate level

Demonstrate vocabulary and grammatical structures at an advanced - intermediate level.

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Apply Te Reo Māori in various contexts

Communicate effectively in Te Reo Māori in formal, informal, social, workplace, and whānau settings.

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Understand cultural and environmental connections

Show understanding of links between language, land, environment, people, and stories as expressions of mana whenua.

What You're Signing Up For

This Level 3 programme develops your Te Reo Māori language skills by taking you beyond basic knowledge and into intermediate language structures and cultural understanding. You'll gain increased confidence through bilingual, interactive learning, exploring active and passive sentence structures, vocabulary, tenses, and Māori cultural practices, including waiata and karakia. The course is the first part of a learning pathway progressing to higher-level immersion and the Level 4 certificate.

Course Content

  • Active and passive sentence structures
  • Tense markers for present, past, and future actions
  • Extending Māori vocabulary
  • Differentiating Māori and non-Māori sentence structures
  • Using te reo Māori in formal and informal situations
  • Explaining and practicing tikanga Māori
  • Learning and performing waiata and karakia
  • Giving instructions and responding using passive commands
  • Understanding postposed periphery particles in te reo Māori (pea, tonu anō, kē)
  • Constructing negative action sentences

What you need to know first

Minimum age 16 at course start (unless exempted from school by the Ministry of Education or principal)

Should have little or no knowledge of Te Reo Māori

Must attend an information sharing hui with a Kaiako (teacher) before enrolment

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What sort of industry will this job lead to

  • Education

  • Culture

  • Language

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Future employment opportunities might be

  • Jobs in education

  • Roles in Māori organisations

  • Positions in media

  • Any public-facing role in Aotearoa/New Zealand