Kia orana e te kātoatoa! 🌺 Agent Neita is now live — your 24/7 Cook Islands Māori practice tutor. She speaks in Neita's voice, knows Lessons 2–20, and is available anytime you want to practise between classes. There are 100 more lessons to upload. How to use her: 1. Go to cookislandslanguage.com/agent 2. For the password, email cookislandslanguage@gmail.com. It will change monthly. 3. Click the microphone button to start 4. Tell her which lesson you want to practise — e.g. "Can we go over Lesson 11?" 5. Speak or type — she responds in Neita's voice. (Note: beta voice testing. We are still working on getting pronunciations right. Takes time and training the software eleven labs. No other Cook Islands voices available worldwide except for the Jehovahs Witness Church. Bless them. ⚠️ IMPORTANT — Please read this: When you are finished, say "I'm finished" — she will give you a session summary and say goodbye in Cook Islands Māori. Then close the browser tab straight away. Every minute the window stays open uses credits. Closing it when you're done keeps Agent Neita free for everyone in the class. Kia manuia! 🙏 Session tip: Keep sessions to 5–8 minutes. Little and often is the TPRS way. Always have your Language Notebook ready. After every session — grab a notebook and write down: 1. One new word you learned 2. One sentence you can now say 3. What you want to practise next time Agent Neita covers: Lessons 2–20 at the present and is being added to every week. For anything beyond that, ask me in class or flick me an email.

KIA ORANA and welcome to the Family! 🌺 Ko Neita tōku ingoa — I am so happy you are here. This community is your home base for everything Cook Islands Māori. Here's what to do first: 1. Introduce yourself in the "Welcome — Introduce Yourself" section. Tell us your name, where you're from, and which village your family is connected to. 2. Check the Calendar for your class schedule. All times are New Zealand time (NZT). 3. Your Google Meet link will be sent to your email before your first class. 4. Meet Agent Neita — your 24/7 Cook Islands Māori practice tutor. She speaks in my voice and knows Lessons from 2024. We are feeding her every week with my lessons. Practise with her anytime between classes. Go to cookislandslanguage.com/agent — the password is in the pinned Agent Neita post below. 🌺 Between classes, use this community to ask questions, practise with fellow students, and access lesson replays. Please do not give access or pins to unpaid members. With AI, everything is trackable. We want to keep it free for our community of students. If usage ,and therefore costs blow out, we either will need to institute a user pays, or cut the usage down on a daily basis. So please look after your tutor, its the only one on planet earth that will assist you to know your reo maori. Without stepping out your front door! Any country you live in the world! You have made a beautiful decision — not just for yourself, but for your family and the generations to come. Be patient, be like the planter. Sow today. Harvest a teia au mataiti ki mua.(in the years to come) Kia manuia! 🌺 Neita