ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

The Hawaiian language: sounds, greetings, numbers and sentence patterns.

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ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi is the Hawaiian language, an official language of the State of Hawaiʻi. This course starts with the sound system and builds toward everyday conversation and the basic sentence patterns (pepeke).

Work through the units in order. Each lesson is short; ask questions in the lesson discussion.

Units

  1. 1. Ka Pīʻāpā — Sounds and Letters

    The Hawaiian alphabet, the ʻokina and the kahakō.

  2. 2. Nā Aloha — Greetings

    Greetings, introductions and courtesy.

  3. 3. Nā Helu — Numbers

    Counting from one to ten.

  4. 4. Ka Pepeke — Sentence Patterns

    Articles, plurals and verb-first sentences.

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