Language Also Declining During this time the language also was declining, for it was much harder to be bilingual when one had to speak only English at school. While all of this was happening, Maori chant was being performed still at tangis and other gatherings, but because of the impact of the new society there was not the same need or opportunity to gather and sing together. Today very few Maori children learn their language in their own home. The only places in which other people can learn Maori are at some Maori schools, at Adult Education classes throughout the country, and at the University of Auckland. But today if you want to learn Maori you have to be really keen, and once you have learnt Maori you have to be fanatic to learn the old chants. They are not easy to learn and, many would say, not easy to listen to.
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Te Ao Hou, September 1964, Page 38
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