vocabulary
I’ve been getting some interest from classmates in Anki and vocabulary deck, so spent half an hour tidying up my full vocabulary deck.
It’s not perfect.
But, if you’re looking to rapidly develop a baseline vocabulary, I can highly recommend the Anki system for web/desktop/smartphones, and you’re welcome to download my deck.
Click here to download my Anki deck for Te Reo Māori kupu.
The Reo Project | Day 189
I’ve created another small Anki deck for learning kupu related to work.
You can download it by clicking here.
As before, it’s mostly based on this list of words from the Kupu o te Rā website.
The Reo Project | Day 172
I created an Anki deck for food times. You can download it here.
All you need is this list and the phrase Homai ki te thing (Give (to me) the thing) and you can kōrero Māori at your table!
Ka rawe! Awesome!
The list is based on a few resources which I recommend:
The Kupu o te Rā “Food Time” list. This list has sentence examples and audio files for many of the words.
The Māori Dictionary online website. This has audio files for every kupu in the deck.
Te Kākano. It’s the textbook I’ve been working on and I think the way it introduces Te Reo is excellent. And there’s heaps of online media resources (and apparently an app, which I haven’t been able to download…).
Ngā mihi e te whānau.
The Reo Project | Day 157
I’m struggling to get this to stick in my brain. There’s so many variations on personal pronouns in Te Reo Māori!
So I made an infographic infographic which you can download too. Making it helped me, maybe reading it will help you too.
Te Reo Project | Day 103
At 20 new words a day, you can learn this Anki deck of common Te Reo words inside two months.
Although if your experience is anything like mine, at the end of the two months you’ll:
Know 200 without thinking.
Be confident with another 200.
Be able to recall another 200, given a little thinking time.
Be hit-and-miss with another 200.
Struggle completely with the last 200.
While I’ve only recently moved into more language/grammar/phrase learning now, I think shifting at the ten-month mark would also have helped with my vocabulary. Using words in some king of context is better than flashcards!
The Reo Project | Day 93
I’ve started off by trying to build my vocabulary, rather than jumping straight in to phrases and conversations.
Here’s my approach so far.
Find a list of the most common words in Māori. I’ll save you the google search, the best list I could find is this one.
Freak out about the logistics of building a 1000-word flashcard deck.
Discover Anki and download their (free) Android app (sorry iPhone users, you have to pay for this one!).
Find the pre-made Anki deck for the 1000-word list linked above.
Celebrate!
Start.
I expect I’ll share more about my evolving use of Anki, for example how I’m now extending the default 1000-word “deck” by adding in more kupu as I discover them. If you’d like to download my current version of the deck, I’ll leave a link to this file on dropbox for a while.
*Updated 18 March 2020 - There’s a link to the latest version of my Anki deck on today’s post.
The Reo Project | Day 78