Mobile phone app teaches Maori language | Pacific Beat

Called Hika Lite, the app allows people to build their own sentences by swiping a list of phrases across the screen, and then hear the message translated into Maori.

The company released the app to mark Maori Language Week.

Bruce Hill spoke to the person who came up with the app, and decided the best way to welcome her would be to actually use it.

Presenter:Bruce Hill

Speaker:Sophie Tamati, a senior lecturer in Maori at the University of Auckland, and the developer of the mobile phone app Hika Lite released by Vodophone New Zealand, to mark Maori Language Week