Kenny Williams began to study the Māori language during his second COVID-19 lockdown. Williams, 36, lives alone and the isolation made him yearn to feel closer to his identity as an indigenous New ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Ngahawi Apanui My mum is the hero of my story. She's incredible because my mother, a solo mum with 10 ...

Jaedyn Randell remembers being a kid sitting in the back of her mum's car, singing along to her favourite Disney songs. "My dream was to be a Disney princess," she says. Now, she actually is one — ...

The New Zealand pop star says recording in the indigenous language was an ‘emotional’ experience Lorde has released a mini-album of tracks in Māori, describing the project as “powerful” and a ...

One thing New Zealanders are good at is uniting, whether it's against COVID or in support of our endangered, indigenous language. New Zealanders are being invited to be part of history and help shape ...

The benefits of machine translation are easy to see and experience for ourselves, but those practical applications are only one part of what makes the technology valuable. Microsoft and the government ...

Since the start of this year, all New Zealand schools have been required to use structured literacy to teach reading and writing – including the country’s 310 primary and intermediate Māori-medium ...

In the song “Oceanic Feeling” from her new album, “Solar Power,” singer Lorde alludes to a jump into a lake at Bulli Point, a beloved swimming spot in her homeland of New Zealand: “When I hit that ...

The New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde has dropped a surprise EP of five tracks from her Solar Power album, re-recorded in the indigenous Māori language. The EP is called "Te Ao Mārama," meaning ...

New Zealand English is one of the youngest dialects of English. It exhibits a number of unique features and the use of words from the indigenous Māori language is probably the most salient and easily ...