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In my own opinion Maori and Latin are in the 'nice to know' bracket; warm and fuzzy but not really relevant to today's international trade and diplomacy. My point: If a language needs artificial support, like Maori Language Week, (face it, taxpayer dollars) it is moribund. It should be relegated to optional status, for the aficionados, until it expires (or re-establishes itself by itself).

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Written by sarahk
2124 days ago
Alot of that depends on whether you look out beyond NZ or if NZ is, infact, your whole world. I was reading an article on NCEA and the headmaster from Avondale College was saying that the difference between Auckland and Wellington was that Aucklanders expected their children to travel and Wellingtonians didn't. Personally I want to equip my children to go out and experience the world (including NZ) and I hope they will be fluent in another language. I'm just not sure that Maori would be my recommendation!



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