In the course of my work with languages, I came across Neri Rook, a Brazilian computer whiz. Using word frequency lists and banks of text, he has created an amazing resource for learning languages (over a dozen).
He starts with the most common 200 words in a language. Then, does a computer analysis of a large corpus of written text in that language. An average frequency value is calculated for every sentence. Finally, a set of the easiest 10 sentences that include a common word is extracted and translated. In short, 2000 sentences for the 200 most common words.
The resource does not exist for Maori, so that gives me the opportunity to create one!
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