December 03, 2015
Te reo resources rescued from archive
Stories and songs in te reo Maori and Samoan published by the Ministry of Education in the 1980s and 90s have been put online by Victoria University of Wellington’s Language Learning Centre.
Senior administrator Ballint Koller,says the Rays of Sound project was born out of a determination to save recordings of culturally valuable stories and songs and to make them more accessible.
He says the result is a digital audio bookshelf which breathes new life into precious and long-underused resources.
The recordings can be listened to for free over the internet but not copied, and the booklets corresponding to the audio are available from the centre.
Mr Koller says the resources will be useful not only for children but also for adults learning Maori or Samoan.
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