Maori · Te Reo Māori · AI speaking partner
Te reo Māori, spoken every day.
Te reo is being learned by more New Zealanders than at any time in a century, and most learners have nowhere to speak it between classes. The pronunciation is regular and the grammar has no conjugation; the obstacle is practice, and the fear of getting it wrong in front of speakers.
Your AI partner talks with you in te reo daily, corrects the vowel length and the particle on screen, and keeps the kōrero going. For whānau, for work, for the marae.
Te Reo Māori
Unlock your Maori fluency
Speak from day one. Real conversations, corrected out loud.
Why Maori is hard to speak
What stops learners talking, and what fixes it.
Vowel length
"Keke" (cake) and "kēkē" (armpit). The macron is a sound, and the ear learns it by hearing itself corrected.
The particles
"Kei te", "i", "ka", "e ... ana": the small words that carry tense. Learned by speaking, not by table.
Mihi and whakataukī
Introducing yourself properly, and the sayings that carry meaning. The partner helps you build your own pepeha.
Ways to practise Maori
6 ways to speak Maori on TalkNative.
- Build ConfidenceTen minutes a day with a coach who talks Māori with you and corrects you on screen without interrupting.
- Real ScenariosTwenty-three real-life scenes in Māori: order, check in, complain, interview, with a character who pushes back.
- Call ModePhone calls in Māori with AI characters who pick up, talk back and remember your last call.
- Start from ZeroSixty short spoken lessons from your first hello, taught in the language you already speak.
- Word ModeThree new Māori words a day, each said in a sentence of your own and corrected out loud.
- DebateArgue a motion in Māori against an AI rival and get judged on your arguments, not just your grammar.
Scenes worth trying in Maori
Practise the conversation before it happens.
- School Parent MeetingA kura or kōhanga reo: the kaiako and your child.With Ms. Alvarez, class teacher
- Business NetworkingA mihi whakatau at work, and the conversation after it.With Sofia, startup founder
- Grocery ShoppingEveryday kōrero at the shop.With Priya, shop assistant
- Date NightWarm conversation, where the language lives.With Noor, your date
Five phrases to say today
The Maori that rescues a conversation.
Say each one out loud now. Then say it to your AI partner, who will tell you how it sounded.
- 1Tēnā, kōrero mai anō.
Please say that again.
- 2Kāore au i te tino mārama.
I don't quite understand.
- 3He aha tāu e tohutohu ai?
What do you recommend?
- 4E hia te utu?
How much is it?
- 5Kia ora, he reka te kai.
Thank you, the food was delicious.
Questions
Before you start speaking Maori
Can it help me prepare a pepeha or a mihi?
Yes. Tell your partner about yourself and it helps you shape and practise a pepeha out loud, correcting pronunciation as you go.
Is the pronunciation right?
The AI speaks standard te reo with correct vowel lengths and the "wh" and "ng" sounds, and corrects yours on screen. Dialect differences (Tūhoe, Taranaki) are not modelled.
Are the corrections explained in my own language?
Yes. You choose the language you already speak at setup (English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic and 50 more), and explanations in Start from Zero and Word Mode come in it while the practice stays in te reo Māori.
Is Māori practice free?
Every module has a free taste with no card. Full access is a one-time payment for 30 days.
Your first Maori conversation takes ten minutes.
Out loud, corrected, in any of 57 languages. No card to start.