Attn: J.&N. Stewart, R.Rimmer, P.Kelly, Steve Porter,Don Finlayson and all your cohorts.
Recently published letters in The Sun shows the ignorance of the above and some others in our community. If you cannot understand a simple word like ‘korero’, I suggest you look in a dictionary, or even ‘Google’ it.
Many overseas visitors and new resident Kiwis are eager to learn te reo Māori, thus enhancing the multi-cultured nation we live in.
Te reo Māori is after all, one of our three official languages and has been recovering from being banned for decades now. If you love English so much, maybe relocation to UK would help.
I hope there are more non-racist, positive Pakeha and others in our ‘Rohe’ (look it up) like me, to counter the negative views you express.
Barbara Saies, Te Puna.