Full immersion in te reo leads to new perspective

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Full immersion in te reo leads to new perspective

By Claire Salter
Waikato pharmacist Claire Salter
Waikato pharmacist Claire Salter did a a te reo Māori immersion course [Image - Michael Bradley photography]

Pharmacist Claire Salter gave up her full-time job to spend the whole of 2022 in a te reo Māori immersion course. She writes the experience has changed the way she thinks

In January of 2022, community pharmacist and single mum Claire Salter uprooted her life in Christchurch to move to Waikato, just as her youngest child