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Common Hawaiian Words To Learn for Your Vacation https://www.hawaii-guide.com/hawaiian-words-to-know-for-your-vacation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HawaiianLanguage #Hawaii #VacationInHawaii #LearnHawaiian #TravelTips

E nānā i ka Mele Manaka ma ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi! #merriemonarch #merriemonarchdaswhy #hula #hulaislife #morningmanao #learnhawaiian #hawaiian #hawaiianlanguage #olelo #olelohawaii #livealoha #hilo
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Common Hawaiian Words To Learn for Your Vacation https://www.hawaii-guide.com/hawaiian-words-to-know-for-your-vacation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #HawaiianWords #LearnHawaiian #HawaiiVacation #TravelToHawaii #ExploreHawaii

I missed doing my daily #Hulihua yesterday! It was a long day of travel and when I arrived home at LAX, I thought the Los Angeles World Airport signs were fitting because:

lawa! == enough!

Lawa ka huakaʻi! (Enough traveling!)

#lax #lawa #enough #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #languageLearning

Manu == bird
#hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #languageLearning

I only just noticed that #Duolingo #Hawaiian course has two different lessons for the English sentence “You have a lot of classmates.” I am still figuring out when to use the k-less forms of possessives! #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii

Image from Duolingo of cartoon character Vikram with the caption “Nui kou mau hoa papa. - You have a lotnof classmates.”

Image from Duolingo of cartoon character Falstaff with the caption “Nui nā hoa papa ou. - You have a lotnof classmates.”

My first time in uTalk finding a flub. The Hawaiian written text for this exercise is “Hiki iā ʻoe ke ʻoka i kaʻa hoʻolimalima noʻu?” but both voice tracks say, “E kaʻa hoʻolimalima noʻu, ke ʻoluʻolu” (more like, “a taxi for me, please” - either is fine I’m sure, but they don’t match! #uTalk
#OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #languageLearning

Screenshot from uTalk has a photo of a yellow taxi with an open door and a driver standing nearby, with a black question mark glyph at bottom right of the photo. The Hawaiian caption is “Hiki iā ʻoe ke ʻoka i kaʻa hoʻolimalima noʻu?” and the English caption is, "Could you call a taxi for me?"

In Hawaiian, I learned the word “maopopo” to mean “understand” so I would interpret “ʻaʻole au maopopo” as “I don’t understand.” I was a little surprised when in the uTalk app they also used the same world for “I don’t know.” #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaiian #uTalk

Screenshot from uTalk. Studio photo of upper body of a White woman facing the camera with eyebrows raised and arms spread palms up. Caption in Hawaiian: ʻAʻole maopopo. Caption in English: I don’t know.

Screenshot from uTalk. Studio photo of head and shoulders of an Asian man with glasses and a confused look on his face, with a question mark icon in the upper right of the photo. Caption in Hawaiian: ʻAʻole maopopo iaʻu. Caption in English: I don’t understand.

ʻAno ʻē == weird #weird #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #languageLearning

OK #duolingo make up your mind!! Is the answer “i kahakai” or “ke kahakai”?! Spoiler alert, my kumu says “kahakai” never takes the definite article, so she would side with “i kahakai” or just plain “kahakai” #beach #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #languageLearning

Screenshot from Duolingo. The lesson prompt is a cartoon image of a tan horizontal area representing sand with a wavy blue area beneath representing waves; a red cartoon crab stands atop the sand, and a yellow cartoon sun hangs above. Lesson prompt text: “the beach.” I have answered “ke kahakai” but at the bottom is the judgement “Incorrect! Correct answer: i kahakai” in a bright red box!

#duolingo #perfect #languageLearning #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian

Image from Duolingo app of cartoon owl Duo on shades of green on a black background, pumping fist (?) with the number 10 and the caption, “I set a new record for perfect lessons in a single day!”

He lā maikaʻi ma ka #duolingo ! (A good day on Duolingo!) #streak #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #languageLearning

Award banner from Duolingo app: Loke and I completed the Friends Quest

Award banner from Duolingo app: I’m on a 1600 day learning streak!

Hawaiian word for the day— cauliflower! According to Drops, it is kāpiki pua! But— (1/3) #languageDrops #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #cauliflower

Screenshot from the app Drops showing a cartoon fldrawing of a head of cauliflower with the caption: kāpiki pua

In #Hawaiian class this week, we discussed this #oleloNoeau and one student said it’s like the English “Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched!” (Excerpt From ‘Ōlelo No‘eau Mary Kawena Pukui & Dietrich Varez) #hawaiianLanguage #olelo #oleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelonoeau #maryKawenaPukui #adage #wiseSaying

“Aia a kau ka i‘a i ka wa‘a, mana‘o ke ola. One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe. Before one feels elated and makes plans he should first secure his “fish.”

I ran across the term “copula” in a mathematical context the other day, but when I looked it up, the first meaning that appeared was the linguistic one, meaning: a linking word. For example, in English, “is.” I also learned that the term “zero copula” is used to describe a language that doesn’t use linking words. Five years ago I would’ve said wow, that’s a mind blowing concept! But today I said, oh, just like Hawaiian! #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaii #copula #zeroCopula #linguistics

I used the term “ʻĀina Pākē” in my Hawaiian class and kumu said that is fine if you want to say “the land of the Chinese” but if you want to say “China” the name of the country is “Kina.” #languageDrops has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while #uTalk teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops :blobcatangery: #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii

Screenshot from Drops with a graphic of the Great Wall of China and the Chinese flag captioned with Hawaiian text “ʻĀina Pākē”

Screenshot from uTalk with a graphic map of of China captioned with Hawaiian text “Kina”

Hoʻomaka ka pule Mele Manaka ma ka lā kanakolukūmākahi o Malaki! Merrie Monarch week starts on March 31st! #merriemonarch #merriemonarchdaswhy #hula #hulaislife #morningmanao #learnhawaiian #hawaiian #hawaiianlanguage #olelo #olelohawaii #livealoha #hilo #duolingo #oscar

Screenshot from Duolingo of the cartoon character Oscar and the exercise, “ʻOliʻoli ʻo Hawaiʻi i ka pule Mele Manaka” == “Hawaiʻi is joyful during Merrie Monarch week”

I really like #uTalk the language learning program! In the “Countries” unit, I get to strengthen my #geography as well as learning #vocabulary! It’s a challenge for me — can YOU pick the image for ”Kuleke” (Turkey) from the assortment below? :blobcatwhat: Someday I will get it right!
#OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian

Screenshot from uTalk showing a 3 by 3 grid of snippets of maps, without any borders but with countries highlighted in a darker shade of the same color. For example the upper left shows the entire continent of South America, with Brazil in dark green and the rest of the land in light green, surrounded by light blue ocean. There is no text at all on the image.

I stayed at a hostel earlier this week which had this whiteboard in the dining area with the greeting “welcome!!” in
various #languages. I was a little tempted to ask them to change “Aloha!!” to “Welina mai!!” which would be a better translation of #welcome. “Aloha” is more of a generic greeting. But, at least most people will recognize #aloha! #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian

Photo of a whiteboard with the phrase “Welcome!!” written in 12 different languages (English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Finnish, Hebrew, et cetera), but the Hawaiian one is “Aloha!!”

There are still a few bugs in the newly added #Duolingo #Hawaiian lessons. There’s at least three words which I keep getting marked wrong because I use the ʻokina and the response, incorrectly, expects an apostrophe: ke kumu lāʻau (the tree), ka hale ʻaina (the restaurant), and ka ʻalemanaka (the calendar). #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii

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