Languages

In this world we have around 6,500 languages that are being spoken to this day. But each year more and more people forget how to speak there language, so why is it important to hold onto your language of our ancestors? Well it's important to hold on to your language because if you forget it and everyone that knows the language forgets how to speak it you may never remember it again and the language you once knew is now dead, which also means your kids may never be able to know where there parents or ancestors were from and wouldn't be able to learn the main culture.

But if you were to move to a different country what would you do to maintain your language? You could keep you culture maintained by staying connected to your family and friends at your country of origin. You could also teach your kids at a younger age so they are able to teach there friends and they won't forget how to speak the language.

Community

A community is the place you call home, but we all move around a lot so we visit and stay in different communities, but Around the world there are different communities. They also come in different sizes either big or small, and yes we all belong to a community but if some one was to ask you "what is a community and what is important to you in your community" what would you say? Well to me a community is a place where people can come together and are able to meet new people and maybe in the process make new friends with the many people they meet. There are also important things in our community that we need to use daily like dairies, Te Oro and The Library, These are important because we use Dairies to buy food, Te Oro to celebrate different things and the library to find books you are interested in and read them. This community is important to me because I've lived here most of my life and I've found this community encouraging because they are always helping people around. So what do you found important in your community and why is it important to you?

Te Reo Maori

Te Reo Maori the indigenous language of this nation most of us live in, but what we hadn't known is that this language was actually dying. This happened because they changed they attitudes towards learning their own language.Because of this everything changed and people thought the language was worthless teaching. I found this interesting that actor Eds Eramiha found it hard to imagine the scene that just happened 20 years ago, he also said he never would’ve called Te Reo Maori a dying language.

This miss convenient event took place around the mid 1980s. At the exact time of the 1900s Te Reo Maori was banned in schools around New Zealand for much of this year, but around the 1980s many Maori people that lived on the countryside packed and moved into the cities. It was when they moved they had to speak english in the city. I never thought that the Maori language would have been that troubled back than, because living in the native country a lot of people know the language and a lot of people already know how to speak it which is why I would’ve never thought it was a dying language. Til I kept reading though the story I found out that the language was so troubled only ⅕ were able to speak this magnificent language. Then things changed people started learning Te Reo Maori and the Language became Popular again.

People didn’t just learn it outside of school, schools where now allowing teachers to teach Te Reo Maori. Not just to speak it but also to sing Waiata which mean songs which are treasuring to the language. I thought this story was quite interesting because Te Reo Maori is a very easy language to speak and also to learn and to know that it was almost gone is just so sad but I’m glad we still have the Language in our world.