I've been thinking about this as well. I really should, as a 50th birthday gift to myself and NZ as a whole, start to learn it properly
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I highly recommend taking a class. Te Wānanga o Aotearoa has free ones that are generally evening classes.
There are other places offering courses but you'll probably have to pay.
The TWoA ones provide the Māori made easy book (and the sequel in the second year).
For flashcards, you can use Ankidroid. It has downloadable te reo set, but I think it's better to start empty and add your own words and phrases as you learn them in other places (course/book/etc).
I learned reo Māori at the Wānanga about 15 years ago and it was a great experience. The resources were great and they use a lot of different teaching methods. I imagine their resources have only gotten better over time. Plus Olly Ohlson was a guest teacher!
Lucky! Yeah they do quite a mix and especially in the first year they do quite a holistic view rather than focusing on the language exclusively.
So for example, learning about pōwhiri, marae, te ao Māori, karakia, and waiata were all used as devices to teach language.
I did a couple of years starting in 2020 (it was a bit of chaos at the start as they took a class that had always been taught in person and tried to convert it for online delivery).
I highly recommend The Wānanga ō Aotearoa (TWoA).
I did two courses, one evening per week for two semesters each (over two years). Actually did it at work with about a dozen other colleagues.
It was awesome. A perfect blend of the technical aspects of the language, actual usage, cultural background.
That might be more than you can commit to, they also have many other courses in smaller more manageable chunks.
I used the Drops app (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.languagedrops.drops.international&hl=en&gl=US&pli=1) for a while, but it was mostly just vocabulary, and may not be entirely accurate :-/
I also watched some Toku Reo online https://www.tokureo.maori.nz/ There are hundreds of episodes with Grammar, Vocabulary, and Activities sections in each episode and online exercises to practice after each episode. There's also a short version of each episode.
I'm probably not the best person to give recommendations though, I've made very little progress...