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My Name is Matt.
I'm from New Zealand.
I like playing soccer and writing music.

Oh, and I like to code

Kia ora,
Haeri mai iwi whānui, I tūmanako māu noho tōhou nohanga....

and we'll leave that there, I was never good at maori and don't know some of the inbetween words like 'the' and 'to' but yeh, thats not a bad effort though I wish I had a better dictionary on hand, this is more of a phrase list for tourists

haramai tokyo.

haha, cheers guys! i'm not big on the maori aye - i know a coupla greetings, and the national anthem and haka and thats about it! boku no nihongo ha boku no maori yori yoi da yo! yeh, japanese is more my thing .

I know the national anthem too, not the haka though.
My Japanese is a tiny bit better than my maori (I can actually form sentances in Jap ) however, I don't get the 2nd part of your sentance so I'm gonna presume it means "I only speak a little Maori".

Tim wrote:I know the national anthem too, not the haka though.
My Japanese is a tiny bit better than my maori (I can actually form sentances in Jap ) however, I don't get the 2nd part of your sentance so I'm gonna presume it means "I only speak a little Maori".

Literal translation - "Compared to my maori, my Japanese is good!"