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Dr. Ali’itasi Su’a Fuimaono Tavila grew up in Samoa but was only 14 years old when she moved to New Zealand in 1975, after winning a scholarship to attend a New Zealand school. Audio

Masunu Tuisila arrived in New Zealand as a youth, making the journey by air with his grandmother and sister via American Samoa and Fiji before arriving in Auckland during Christmas of 1972. Audio

Aliota left Samoa in 1966 to help his family. He was ambitious and arrived with a strong work ethic that led to his running his own business and working at a bank and on the Wellington City Council. Audio

Tala left Samoa in 1950 and is now 90 years old, having resided in New Zealand for 70 years. She has been a trailblazer in the Pacific community. Audio

O Le Aiga Sāmoa is a new comic series that has been launched today. Audio

Ever been stuck for something to say or wondered how to encourage a family member or friend to open up about what's worrying them? These cards could help.  Audio

Kiwi kids are keeping up with learning Te Reo Maori this term through a distance learning TV channel during school hours each day on the Te Reo Channel and online. It's called Mauri Reo Mauri Ora and… Audio

Wellington speech and language therapist Christian Wright shares ideas to help develop preschoolers ability to understand and ask questions. Audio

It's been 38 years since the first kohanga reo centre opened in Wainuiomata - and there's now over 8,500 tamariki in centres across New Zealand. But the competition from mainstream centres, and a… Audio

There are concerns for refugee families who might not be able to keep up with the rapidly evolving information coming out everyday about Covid-19.

There are 19 translations of basic information about… Audio

Author and writing teacher Pip Adam shares some ideas for writing exercises.  Audio

Correcting English grammar could actually be futile as a number of rules which are enforced are actually incorrect themselves. Audio

Three Minutes Max, New Zealand commentators with succinct opinions. Here's Latin teacher Robert Griffiths on the importance of keeping what some consider a 'dead' subject alive. Audio

More and more book titles use coarse language to gain attention - is it the result of a desperate need to grab readers' attention? Audio

David Kārena-Holmes is a Maori language tutor whose classes in Nelson have proved so popular he has to keep getting bigger venues. Audio

Advocates for trigger warnings have made strong claims about their benefits, but Dr Christian Jarrett has studied a wealth of research and doesn't think we are able to brace ourselves emotionally when… Audio

Researchers at the University of Exeter analysed the lyrics of more than 15,000  songs published between 1965 and 2015 and found that popular songs are getting sadder. Dr. Charlotte Brand was one of… Audio

Having been enticed by a love of Spanish art and flamenco guitar, New Zealand artist and poet Charles Olsen arrived in Spain in 2003 with the intention of staying for a month. Seventeen years later… Audio

What use is a language no-one else in New Zealand can speak? Ena Manuireva has the answer and is on a Mangareva mission that looks close to impossible: He wants to save his native tongue from… Audio