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And CDs are sent out by airmail to customers whose addresses are outside New Zealand!
THE "TALK MAORI TODAY!" AUDIO-LINGUAL
TRAINING UNITS 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, & 6
ARE NOW AVAILABLE AS AN INTERACTIVE
TUTORIAL KIT ALTOGETHER ON ONE COMPUTER CD,
AT PRESENT PRICED AT ONLY:-
AUST$25.00 in Australia / or £10 STERLING in the U.K. /
or NZ$25.00 in New Zealand / or CAN$20.00 in Canada /
or 15 EURO in the Euro Zone Countries of the European Union /
or US$20.00 anywhere else in the world.
This Maori Language tuition computer CD can be ordered by phone, fax,
post or Internet e-mail, while this offer
lasts, and the price is fully inclusive of postage, packaging, etc.
There are no hidden costs, and delivery to any destination outside
New Zealand will be by airmail.
By the time students have conscientiously completed all six units,
they should be fluent in greeting, making polite requests, expressing
thanks and receiving thanks courteously in Maori. They should be well able
to enquire about the way in Maori, understand directions received, and know
how to explain the way to others. They should be fluent in asking
about and expressing prices, and in making other requests and responses
associated with shopping. They should have all the necessary oral language
skills to make somebody's acquaintance in Maori, and to know how to talk
about holiday plans and travel in Maori. AND MUCH MORE! The course
is packed full of Maori Language know-how at every turn! It will also
carefully check the user's ability to write down spoken Maori, to translate
spoken Maori into English, and to translate English into Maori.
All prices indicated on this page are fully inclusive of postage, packaging and delivery to the purchaser's postal address anywhere in the world!
Using either MasterCard or Visa,
CLICK HERE.
 To order by telephone, just phone:- 09 810 9519 (New Zealand). If phoning from outside New Zealand, just dial your local telephone exit code followed by
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HOW TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF THE "TALK MAORI TODAY!" COMPUTER CD
"TALK MAORI TODAY!" OFFERS FIVE DIFFERENT AUDIO-LINGUAL OPERATING MODES
PLUS THREE SILENT OPERATING MODES.
THE FIVE AUDIO-LINGUAL OPERATING MODES (WITH FULL SOUND) ARE:-
MAORI LANGUAGE SOUND AND TEXT WITH AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE,
MAORI LANGUAGE SOUND AND TEXT WITH KEY-PRESS
ADVANCE, INDIVIDUAL PHRASES OF MAORI WITHOUT TRANSLATION, INDIVIDUAL PHRASES OF MAORI WITH
TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH, AND INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS RELATING TO MAORI LANGUAGE SOUND AND TEXT.
THE THREE SILENT MODES OF OPERATION AVAILABLE ARE AS FOLLOWS:-
Maori Text without Sound, Translation into English without Sound,
and Maori Text with Translation into English without Sound.
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TO BUILD UP YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE MAORI LANGUAGE |
To begin with, the INDIVIDUAL SENTENCES WITH TRANSLATION Option
offers you the opportunity of seeing both the Maori text and the English
text displayed simultaneously while you listen to the reading.
Use this purely to familiarise yourself with meaning of the sentences:
being read aloud. Once you are familiar with the meaning, dispense
with the simultaneous translation display, and run the program in
AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE Mode.
In AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE Mode, only the Maori text will be displayed...
Listen to the Maori carefully, many times, keeping an eye on the Maori text
and simply trying to understand as much of the reading as you possibly can.
If there are still some sections of the Maori text which you cannot fully understand,
keep selecting the Translated Text Disply Without Sound Mode to review
the translation of the whole passage at your leisure, again and again, until you feel you
understand everything in the written text.
When you feel your understanding of the written text is complete, begin to monitor
your ability to follow the spoken Maori Language. Do this by selecting the SOUND WITH
MOUSE/KEY-PRESS TEXT ADVANCE Mode.
The SOUND WITH MOUSE/KEY-PRESS TEXT ADVANCE Mode is essentially an
easy-to operate MANUAL Text Advance Mode. YOU, the user, have to advance
the text display by key-press or mouse click to keep pace with the sound. Keep
on practising this until you are easily able to advance the text manually in pace
with the reading. By the time you have reached that stage, your aural
comprehension will have reached a sufficient level for you to be able to devote
serious attention to practising speaking in Maori.
Read UNIT 1 aloud yourself, phrase by phrase, along with the computerised
reading. When that too becomes easy to you, read the passage aloud in Maori
without accompanying sound from the computer. To do this, select the Maori
TEXT DISPLAY WITHOUT SOUND Mode.
When you can handle this with ease, check yourself out on the INTERACTIVE
QUESTIONS Routine, for UNIT 1. This will deliver a different set of questions
each time you run it. Some of the questions are designed to check your auditory
recognition and understanding of spoken Maori, and others aim to check your
understanding of written Maori. Keep working at the INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS
Routine until you accomplish at least two consecutive runs without errors.
When you have thoroughly mastered UNIT 1, use the mouse to select UNIT 2, and begin the whole process again with UNIT TWO, working with all the various routines from SOUND WITH AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE right through to INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS - and carry on in this manner all the way to UNIT SIX. By the time, you have mastered UNIT SIX, you will have progressed quite some way into the adventure of talking Maori, the vibrant ancestral national language of Aotearoa (New Zealand)!
AUDIO-TAPE CASSETTE AND ACCOMPANYING BOOKLET ALSO AVAILABLE AS OPTIONAL EXTRAS
For those who wish to work just with a tape-recorder and text, the sound-track of
"TALK MAORI TODAY!" is now available on audio-tape cassette with accompanying booklet
for just:-
AUST$18.00 in Australia / or £7 STERLING in the U.K. / or NZ$18.00 in New Zealand /
or CAN$14.00 in Canada / or 11 EURO in the Euro Zone Countries of the European Union /
or US$14.00 anywhere else in the world.
The computer CD
"TALK MAORI TODAY" is ideal for use in
conjunction with "The Sunlit Horizon Approach to the Maori Language" computer CD,
and whilst there are many advantages to accessing the
sound-track of the "TALK MAORI TODAY" computer CD on computer rather
than from a tape-recorder (e.g. the ease with which every
individual sentence can be repeated ad lib, and the ease with
which the student can go back to a preceding sentence on the Computer CD), if you
place an order both for the "TALK MAORI TODAY!" computer CD
and for "The Sunlit Horizon Approach to the Maori Language", you
can also (if you wish) have the tape cassette of the
sound track of "TALK MAORI TODAY" (with booklet) as part of the
following very advantageous low-price combination offer:-
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ABOUT THE "TALK MAORI TODAY!" AUDIO CD.
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