Māori made easy : for everyday learners of the Māori language / Scotty Morrison.

Introduction -- The learning journey -- Dialects -- Week one: Pronunciation -- Week two: Numbers -- Week three: Greeting and farewelling people/Asking where someone is going -- Week four: Action phrases -- Week five: Action phrases continued -- Week six: Action phrases/Using personal pronouns -- Week seven: Possessive prepositions -- Week eight: More on using possessives -- Week nine: Ā and Ō categories/More on possessive prepositions -- Week ten: Past-tense possessive prepositions -- Week eleven: Saying where you are from/Talking about your whānau -- Week twelve: Asking and saying who will do something -- Week thirteen: Asking and saying who did something -- Week fourteen: Locatives -- Week fifteen: Saying where someone is doing something/Using "Kei" to show possession -- Week sixteen: Descriptive sentences -- Week seventeen: More sentences using "he"/Intensifiers -- Week eighteen: Saying if something happens, this is the conseqence -- Week nineteen: Asking and saying when something will happen or take place in the future -- Week twenty: Asking and saying when something happened or took place in the past -- Week twenty-one: More on time/Asking for the cost/Seasons/Weather/Months of the year -- Week twenty-two: The passive sentence structure -- Week twenty-three: Using "ka taea" -- Week twenty-four: Giving orders -- Week twenty-five: Stative verbs -- Week twenty-six: Asking and answering "why" and "why not" questions -- Week twenty-seven: Using "ka" to tell a story -- Week twenty-eight: Summing up -- Week twenty-nine: Revision -- Week thirty: Revision continued -- Answers.

"While dictionaries list words and their definitions, and other language guides offer common phrases, Maori Made Easy connects the dots, allowing the reader to take control of their learning in an empowering way. By committing just 30 minutes a day for 30 weeks, learners will adopt the language easily and as best suits their busy lives. Written by popular TV personality and te reo Māori advocate Scotty Morrison, author of The Raupo Phrasebook of Modern Maori, this book proves that learning the language can be fun, effective - and easy!"--Publisher's website.