Maori interpreters
Sir,—A shortage of Maori court interpreters (January 16) is puzzling. Why do some of us, and immigrants also, know more Maori words than many young Maoris? Incredible, surely. Language textbooks have been readily available (Maori, too) in libraries (free) and in bookshops, while language courses for all ages have been readily available, too. German, Russian and Japanese are difficult, true, but smooth, picturesque Maori (mainly a folk, but expressive language), is not too difficult for the very student. A Maori
parent using K. T. Harawira’s splendid, inexpensive “Teach Yourself Maori” could teach an infant only three words a day, and in six months a good vocabulary would be there for cultural, daily usage, even at home. Why wait? Tomorrow may be too late. Half a loaf is better than none.— Yours, etc.,
JOHN LESLIE. January 19, 1988.
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