What language do New Zealand speak? According to the 2013 Census, English and Te Reo Māori are the most widely spoken languages in New Zealand. However, as Table 1 shows, in 2013 there far more people speaking English (3,819,969 people or 90 per cent of the total population) than Te...
Australian visitors will feel right at home in New Zealand when it comes to getting around as English is the main language, and Kiwis speak it fluently.² Like at home, you might notice a few unique Kiwi slang words being thrown around, but nothing too hard to pick up! Useful apps to...
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A couple of years back, a global travel website conducted a poll to find the “sexiest accent in the world". Guess who came on top? The Kiwis. Followed by the...
There is an interesting wrinkle here with regard to parsing language which is not intended to be read literally – eg jokes. “well that was obviously intended as a joke” should get you off the hook in some cases, like (5), no? But isn’t this just the same as “it’s just a ...
Then you are always going to get people who think that they know best. Some people believe a FW is in between a Cap and a Latte, some people think it has slightly less micro foam then a latte. I am a New Zealander who has lived in London and have meet many Kiwis who swear a FW...
Not just Aussies, Kiwis too - Stephen Denne No offence intended :) - johnc ohh... we had one of those for a weekend (might have been Easter)... before Dad decided that if we were going to get a computer, it better have a real keyboard (like the IBM's at his work), and not...
atthetable2015 What we learned in our kitchen. Be a lady they said.