Paul Moon: Killing Te Reo Māori | Free to Speak
About this episode
Historian Paul Moon discusses the challenges facing the preservation of te reo Māori and critiques current revival efforts.
In 2018, historian Paul Moon published a book arguing that te reo Māori is on course to disappear as a living language, and that almost everything being done to revive it is failing. The reaction was immediate and hostile. Moon's position is that he is a friend of the language, and that a good friend does not offer false comfort. He argues that compulsory language teaching has failed in Wales, Ireland, Luxembourg and Singapore, that fluency figures are self-reported and unverifiable, that no...
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