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The Tōku Reo website (tokureo.maori.nz) is the official companion site to the Tōku Reo television series, a beginner-level Te Reo Māori language learning show broadcast on Māori Television. The site offers interactive exercises, podcasts, a discussion forum, series and episode pages covering Series 1 through 5, and links to the broader Te Whanake resource library. It is designed to reinforce what learners watch on the show, so it works best as a supplement to the television episodes rather than as a standalone course.
Core Learning Tools on the Site
The homepage describes three main tools that accompany the broadcast:
- Interactive exercises — online activities tied to the vocabulary and sentence structures taught in each block of five episodes.
- Podcasts — audio content to reinforce the language covered on the show.
- A forum — a space for discussion and practice with other learners.
These are presented as a way to "reinforce what you're learning on the TŌKU REO television show," so the intended flow is: watch the episode, then practise on the site.
Series and Episode Pages
The site is organised into five series, each with its own page:
| Section | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Series 1–5 | Episode pages grouped by series |
| Featured Episode | A highlighted episode (Episode One covers greetings and the words "tōku" and "reo") |
| Profiles | Background on the people involved |
| Kura Productions | Information about the production company |
Episode One, for example, teaches how to greet one person, two people, and three or more people, plus a "top 10 words" segment. Each block of five episodes introduces vocabulary built around a role-play and a small number of sentence structures.
Links to Te Whanake Resources
The site points to the wider Te Whanake ecosystem, which is the comprehensive Te Reo Māori course created by Professor John Moorfield that Tōku Reo is based on. Linked resources include:
- Textbooks — Te Kākano, Te Pihinga, Te Māhuri, Te Kōhure
- Study guides — Te Kākano, Te Pihinga, Te Māhuri
- Audio CDs — Te Kākano, Te Pihinga, Te Māhuri
- Teachers' manuals — Te Kākano, Te Pihinga, Te Māhuri
- A Māori dictionary
- Te Whanake Animations and Te Whanake TV
Resources are also grouped by Māori language ability, so you can pick a starting point that matches your level.
How the Pieces Fit Together
The show itself is structured for beginners: it combines kaumātua, rangatahi, learners, and native speakers, and each episode includes segments on newly coined words from the Māori Language Commission, different tribal dialects, and homework set by Professor John Moorfield. The website mirrors that structure by giving you exercises and podcasts for each episode, a forum to ask questions, and direct links to the Te Whanake textbooks and dictionary if you want to go deeper.
If you are starting from zero, the natural path is: begin with Series 1, Episode One (greetings), use the interactive exercises and podcast for that episode, and keep the Te Whanake dictionary and Te Kākano textbook links handy as reference. The forum is there if you get stuck or want to practise with others.