As I speak about learning te reo Māori at tertiary level, I can't help but mention the wonderful staff of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, especially the wānanga staff at Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) who, over the last 20-odd years, in conjunction with SIT, have taught te reo Māori classes to thousands of people in Southland. I acknowledge the wonderful work that my very good friend Arana Collett did leading that group for many years. As a very average achiever—in fact, if I was honest, probably a very poor achiever—at languages, I really do wish that I had had that opportunity to learn languages at an earlier age. I watch two of my young grandchildren going to baby Chinese classes and singing nursery rhymes in Mandarin with ease and enthusiasm, and I look forward to my third mokopuna learning to speak te reo Māori as he grows up with his Pākehā mum and Māori dad, and both of them took Te Ara Reo Māori classes with the wānanga in Queenstown. That wānanga, they're just absolutely anywhere if you want to take a Māori language class.