If public speaking terrifies, try laughter or te reo for a real thrill

If public speaking terrifies, try laughter or te reo for a real thrill
From left: Scotty Morrison, Neil Thornton and Miriam Chancellor.
Garth Bray
If you are reading this article, congratulations.  2024 was awash with signals of an emerging post-literate culture, where the spoken word once again has been gaining the upper hand and confident speakers thrive as written language merely survives. The explosion of video content online, the plethora of podcasts and their influence on the US presidential election, the recent worrying signs that 30% of 80,000 New Zealand secondary school students failed the benchmark reading test that enables their NCEA qualifications to count: all are...

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