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A little reflection daily about my language acquisition

Wednesday 7 July 2021

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 Hatupatu and the Birdwoman is the title of a children's book I own. Its size is gigantic; the book is designed to be read out in front of the classroom.

My copy is in Maori. Seeking online for the English version I discovered that it too had been published (10 years earlier). I was able to access the book at an open library and read it online. The only problem was that I couldn't print it out.

And so I dictated the work as a word document which I then mailed to myself. The text had errors, naturally. For instance, the last 2 syllables came out regularly as 'Potter'. (But 'Hatu' was never picked up as 'Harry'.)



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