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Learn The Hawaiian Language
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Poster: Jesse Tinsley Email: jessehj@imbris.com Subject: Learn the Hawaiian Language |
Posted on 4/28/03 at 6:55pm |
| There have been some questions on how to learn the Hawaiian language. One good place to start is www.hawaiianlanguage.com. There are also online lessons (free!) in streaming video available from Kamehameha Schools at http://ksdl.ksbe.edu/kulaiwi/index.html And if you get serious about it, you should buy the Pukui/Elbert dictionary. Lilo and Stitch question: The word 'ohana does mean family, and can include the wider concepts of kinship, adoption and close friendship. It is spelled with the 'okina glottal stop) in front, I believe. Jesse Tinsley |
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Poster: the best way to learn the hawaiian language Email: punohu@yahoo.net Subject: |
Posted on 6/12/05 at 1:56pm |
| the best way and the only way ios to speak it. it cant just be read from a book. look for olelo(hawaiian language)tapes. there are two books to get. There is the hawaiian dictionary. but this is hard if you do not already know the language. the language and words have many meanings or kaona. plus, crossreferencing can be hard someone that does not speak, as the sentence structure is different, and the kaonas are important the hawaiian language is very similar to shakespearean prose or the homerific languages...flowery and deep and rigch in meanings. the language has become quite pasterized, but the truth of the language is preserved in legends, chants and meles, of the hula and the stories we all know so well. there is another book, standard reading in our first and second year college curriculum called olelo oiwi by hokulani cleeland please excuse me as i do not always use the kahako or okina. it is a modern thing. i am used to writting without it. i know that is a very very bad habit.*laffs* please continue, and support hawaiis immersion schools, kula kaiapuni and punanaleo, gfo online and see how to help them out!! keeping it real in hawaii nei punohu aloha as always |
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Poster: Jesse Tinsley Email: jessehj@adelphia.net Subject: Language lessons |
Posted on 6/13/05 at 7:49pm |
| Aloha e Punohu, Thanks for adding your thoughts. I don't think anyone can learn the language without exposure to the culture and kupuna who can add to what books will teach. Once you gain enough knowledge to express yourself, then you need immersion to complete fluency. My grandfather, Edward Kahale, taught Hawaiian at UH in the 1940s. He later taught night classes around O'ahu and his homemade books had no macrons at all! Old Hawaiians thought it was quaint to add them because everyone knew the language anyway, didn't they? E aloha mai, Jesse Tinsley |
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Poster: Mary Email: eitherorr@gmail.com Subject: olelo oiwi book |
Posted on 10/22/06 at 7:29am |
Trying to purchase the boook olelo oiwi but have been unable to locate. Any suggestions? Thank you. Mary Orr |
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Poster: Keola Donaghy Email: keola@nahenahe.ent Subject: 'Olelo 'Oiwi |
Posted on 10/23/06 at 1:10pm |
'Olelo 'Oiwi was published by the 'Aha Punana Leo, but I believe it is out of print. You may want to contact them directly: http://ahapunanaleo.org/ I had heard that it might be revised and reprinted but don't know that for sure. Otherwise your best bet would be to keep an eye out on eBay. Keola |
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Poster: Keko Email: iuke_keko@yahoo.com Subject: Olelo Oiwi |
Posted on 11/11/06 at 7:28am |
Olelo Oiwi is out of print as I have checked numerous stores, but there is a chance it might still be available by calling Border's Book/Music (Ward Center) and adding your name/telephone number on the list and also Na Mea Hawaii list. I am desperate to learn the language and I have taken classes at UH Hilo and currently attending a small kine class held every saturday for 2 hours, also I have choke Hawaiian books, audio and short video clips. I think in order to learn the language, you have to think and hear Hawaiian, like listening to Hawaiian music and reading short Hawaiian story books which again can be found at either Na Mea Hawaii or Border's Books. It has been past a year and a half and I can understand small Hawaiian talk and read small kine Hawaiian stories. Hope this helps out and GOOD LUCK. l |
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Poster: Mateo Rhodes Email: steelgtr@earthlink.net Subject: Kaliko Beamer's CDs |
Posted on 5/17/07 at 11:45am |
If you want a great way to get started with the correct pronunciation and syntax, then look for Kaliko Beamer's CDs in Borders & Barnes/Noble bookstores. It's sold under the Topics Entertainment label, usually comes as an 8-CD package (blue & white), and costs about $25-$30. Or take a look at the web site: www.panpolynesia.net |
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Poster: Mokihana Email: honehonepuliki@aol.com Subject: Help translate to hawaiian |
Posted on 7/2/07 at 10:30am |
Aloha no, I am trying to translate "The witness of a new day" for a new keiki. Someone translated Kamakaokealaulahou as the hawaiian translation but some how I don't feel comfortable. I think Ke alaula hou is a new dawn (or sunset). Can anyway help me get the correct translation? |
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Poster: Keli'i Email: keliichang@sbcglobal.net Subject: "The witness of a new day" |
Posted on 9/14/07 at 12:52pm |
This is what I would say..."Ka 'ike o ka la hou." |
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Poster: Rose Subject: "The tree of life" |
Posted on 12/2/07 at 1:24am |
Could you please help me in translating "The tree of life", for a newborn baby girl? It comes from the bible, Proverb 3:18. It was translated as keolaola'au. I'm not sure of the translation of la'au. I think la'au means tree( or medicine). Could you please help me get the correct translation? Thank You! |
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