TRANSLATING GLOBALIZATION.
By Semiramis Holland
As the world becomes more globalised, the ability to communicate clearly and connect with clients and suppliers abroad can have a major impact on a company’s success. Communicating in a variety of languages can help to secure or compete for business more effectively, and improve business relationships overall.
A new software package developed by Sophie Tauwehe Tamati (Tainui, Tühoe, Ngäti Tüwharetoa) could provide a solution and also contribute to attracting global business opportunities for the Mäori economy. Sophie has designed and patented a rapid Mäori language learning tool called ‘Hika’. The technology can be applied to translate any language for global business communication and language education.
Read this article here
Key quotes from this article:
“You cut out all the anxiety that most foreign language learners face in a classroom environment. I want to make it fun and interactive,” says Sophie.
“My genuine passion to revive te reo Mäori is the driving motivation behind setting up Hika,” she says.
“Hika can be accessed through any PC, IPhone or cellphone. The Hika software includes a range of learning products currently written in Mäori only. But in less than five years time Sophie Tauwehe Tamati says Hika will have the capability to offer all major foreign languages around the world.”
Loading...
This is an amazing product and in reading the article I can only expect something like this will not only help to understand the maori language but more importantly to understand the culture. Wow!
A global tool to commumicate in other langages…..Awesome!
It’s exciting for me to learn that Hika is becoming available. It means that we can all communicate with each other even if we don’t speak each other’s languages.
This product sounds amazing and I can see it opening communication channels for people where that is often a hurdle; everyday life, tourism, business etc. Well done Sophie
This is an amazing product. It is good that we could understand Maori more. Not only we could understand and learn more about the Maori language, it is the most important product that we could learn the maori culture. For an immigrant like us, we definitely need to understand the Maori culture and language more. Good stuff.
This sounds lovely! I know many who would love to have this in reach to be able to learn te reo Maori.
Living in a very busy society and making time to get to a school to learn it is normally what holds people back, but knowing you could flip out your ph during a bus ride to work or etc and be productive, its great!
Congratulations!! Tauwehe your achievements in creating the ‘Hika’ software package is not only shaping the future in how we traditionally learn, but it also has the capacity to enhance and develop ones skills in learning more than one language and its culture is absolutely without a shadow of doubt outstanding and brilliant!!. Your passion to cultivate, nurture and maintain the gift of Te Reo Maori is both encouraging and inspiring to me personally. The way of the future is bright not only locally, nationally but also internationally. Once again thank you and bless you for following your dream, for it is now your reality, that is so awesome!! God Bless.
ori economy is phynominal!!
Wow! Great! As an ESOL teacher I know this has great and far reaching potential. I know many immigrants who would run at an opportunity like this. Fantastic Tauwhere.
Cooooool!!!! I’ll finally be able to learn how to speak Maori!!
Sounds like a wonderful way to bring the native language of NZ to the world and for the rest of the world to see another side of NZ
What an awesome job you have done Sophie – congratulations…Hika is innovative, creative, exciting & relevant. The fruits of your labour will be huge.
Can’t wait to see Hika in action!! This is the sort of invention that impacts people globally. Fantastic!
I like the sound of this and the concept which is universal looking forward to seeing the product in action…
Great breakthrough, now we all can be very confident in communicating with other peoples that may not understand our basic English or Maori language. Well the world is getting smaller and definitely more friendlier as communication misunderstanding can be minimize to zero. Keep it up Sophie
The Hika sounds like an essential tool we should all have in our back pockets to help us bridge the language barrier in all areas of life.
Can’t wait to try it out!
very outstanding,looking forward to seeing it in action…a tool we could use in the Mahi I do out here in south Auckland,fun and interactive would work well,and the fact that language barriers will not be a problem no matter where you are in the world is fantastic.Awesome Mahi thankyou
A great concept that will open doors to all ages, ethnicities and NZentrepreneurs.
Tena koe e Tauwehe. Wow, E Hika sounds excting. I can see this is something a lot of people are going to want as soon as its launched including myself. Can’t wait.
Kia ora !
This tool is innovative and creative and has the potential to create global interest in advancing communication around the world taking it to another level. What a great invention that we can access and utilize at our very own fingertips. Well done Sophie, you get my vote for Young Entrepreneur of the year!