Puna

Our second app, Puna, is a tool for children or people just beginning to learn te reo Māori.

Test your Māori language vocab skills with Puna! Are you up for the challenge?

Race against the clock, score points and save your precious water. Then build your own vocab sets to test your whānau and friends.

Who will reign supreme and be a vocab star?

Modules

Kia Rite! | Be Ready!

Build your vocabulary in a range of categories within this module. You can also record your own voice and practise forming letters and spelling words.

To do in this module:

• Swipe through the cards seeing and hearing a variety of words and pictures.
• Record your own voice, temporarily, and compare with the default audio.
• Share the audio recording via email.
• Change the audio or word to the existing cards via the Tautuhinga | Settings function.
• Practise writing the word in the guided or unguided mode.
• Select from a range of icons and colours to write with (taiaha, patu, butterfly, truck).
• Play back the unguided writing.

Wero Hinengaro | Challenge the Mind

This module will test your knowledge and recall of the vocabulary learned in Kia Rite! This module is timed and you earn points for selecting the correct word or picture, but be careful as points are also lost for incorrect answers. More icons are added as progress through the rounds.

Play different modes:

Picture mode—a word will show at the top of the screen and you have to select the appropriate picture from the options presented.

Text mode—a picture will show at the top of the screen and you have to select the appropriate word from the options presented.

• Turn the audio on to help you sound out the word.
• Turn the audio off to make it harder.

Wero Mahara | Challenge the Memory

Race against the clock, a challenger, or the computer to match cards and also earn points along the way. Be aware that layers will come from below as you progress through the levels and points are lost for incorrect matches, so watch carefully.

Play in three different ways:

• independently
• two players (on the one device/computer)
• against the computer.

There are also different modes to match the cards including:

• picture—picture
• picture—word
• word—word.

Select the level of difficulty—easy, medium, hard.

Wero Tuhi | Challenge the Written

Test your listening and spelling skills in this challenge. There are hints to help with those tricky words as more letters are added, than what is required to spell the word, as you progress through the levels

Play in a range of modes including:

• seeing an image of the word only
• seeing an image of the word and hearing the word
• hearing an audio of the word only
• no clues at all.

There are hints the player can use if they get stuck.

Wero Whatu | Challenge the Eyes

Challenge your observation skills by locating items hidden within 10 different scenes on the island. The words within each of the categories have been split between the scenes and you have to find the hidden items before time runs out. Move the picture around, zoom in and zoom out to find the items and if it gets too hard, there are hints to help.

Play in three modes including:

• seeing an image of the hidden item
• seeing the word of the hidden item
• hearing the audio of the hidden item.

If it gets too hard, use hints which sparkle in the area where the item is hidden.

Find all of the hidden items within each scene. Go to the Kauneke | Progress page to find out how you are progressing.