I realized the other day that my version of Kindle allows me to have text read aloud to listen to. I'd forgotten the device gives me that option. So I started experimenting.
I set it to its slowest speed. And then as I listened - to the English version of Harry Potter - I followed along with my eyes across the pages of Hare Pota (in Māori).
It worked. I kept up, although even at the slowest speed I'm only able to focus on two or three words per sentence. It was not too much of a strain, and I feel that with enough of this type of exposure, te reo would sink in.
(Though I empathized with Hagrid, feeling motion sickness as the underground Gringotts cart raced wildly along!)
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