Hoʻolauna: An Introduction. Welcome to the Hawaiian Language!

[MyDolls27]

I live on Maui

[MyDolls27]

I'm Hawaiian :) you look just like me you are very pretty I am a keiki I'm 12 and you are ho brah you are very a very fluent speaker :) aloha

[kimbuehrle]

Are there more videos

[mcdoalyne]

i just wonder what language u guys usually use for everyday life?? hawaii or english?

[nahebailon]

Pehea 'oe I a'o ua a'o au mai ka punanaleo o honolulu moapopo 'oe ia anake lolena?

[bryanhopkins1]

Ready to Try Hawaiian - Yep !

[cclaud31]

can I get your test? I would like to learn hawaiian language. thank you

[BrilliantlyBecks]

I loove this. What's really cute, is that your voice sounds totally different from when you speak Hawaiian and then when you speak English. :O It's so cool. (:

[CornerOfMystery]

Hawaiian sounds so awesome!! :3

[2553shean]

guys if u can speak maori or samoan u will be able to pick up hawaiian language very quick :):)

[aurielMoon]

@2553shean really? thats interesting. i don't know any maori or samoan though. so, where does that put me?

[2553shean]

@aurielMoon lol im ment for other people sweetheart hahaha what i ment darlin is if a person has the tounge for it wont take long

[2553shean]

hawaiian is the same as samoan and maori

[myheartisinhawaii]

Aloha Kumu Ahonui. Pehea 'oe? I ko'u mana'o, maika'i no kou a'o aku 'ana i ka 'olelo Hawai'i. E ola i ka 'olelo makuahine! Mahalo no kou hana maika'i. 'O wau 'o Kapuaalohamaikalani. No Ewa mai au. Noho au ma Storm Lake ma Iowa no ke kula nui. Ua 'ike wau i kou mau wikio, a makemake wau i kou mau mea no ka mea, hoihoi nui ke a'o mai 'ana i ka 'olelo i keia la. 'ane'ane make ka 'olelo, no laila, pono e ho'omau i ke 'ano hawai'i a me ka 'olelo.

Mahalo nui loa, malama pono!

[tallie02]

Pehea 'oe ......... Mahalo ......mahalo im so honor to learned the hawaiian language

Mahalo nui loa

aloha

mika'ele

aloha ke akua

[GuamKomudo]

My comment is, you're awesome!  =D

Mahalo!!! =D

[HEADBUSSAH77]

right on aunteh i needed dis..shame idk my own language..lol!

[iAMcirca]

im from canada, i think hawaiian girls are soooo pretty!

i want to move there some day,

to be a marine biologist

[jjay75]

This is a wonderful thing for you to do.

[munden1971]

Mahalo nui loa for sharing the Hawaiian language.

[t3121]

thankyou soo much. yeah I used to live on hawaii when my family got stationed over there. and I really loved the place soo much. Im gonna learn this language, already know some from living there but it would be GREAT to know how to speak it. its endangered. you know only .1% of people on the islands are native these days? sad right? thankyou SOOO much for these lessons

[aurielMoon]

i wish rosetta stone would have hawaiian

[jjay75]

@aurielMoon It's a terrible way of learning languages.

[GuamKomudo]

Oh I know! We should email them and ask for it! More and more people are learning Hawaiian especially young people in Hawai'i. It's a legit language! And one of the most unique and coolest ones in my opinion. So they should make one!

[2553shean]

@aurielMoon u dont really need rosotta stone set to learn hawaiian all hawaiian language is basicly mixed between samoan and maori and little bit tongan

hawaii use to be called hawaiki

[Kamaka675]

@2553shean Yes, there are similarities between those languages because they are all members of the Polynesian language family. With regard to shared innovations in languages, Hawaiian, Marquesan, Tahitian, Maori and Rapanuian are more closely related to one another than Tongan or Samoan, and they form their own subgroup referred to as Eastern Polynesian languages. Their shared innovations have more to do with the natural evolution of languages than crossbreeding.

[vairocana23]

Yes, I will definitely purchase the text to go along with the lesson. And I saw the copyright on the book is the same year that I was born. : )

[PoiKanak]

Thanks

I was also a Kamehameha Grad in 03' and am glad that I found this. I didn't take Hawaiian in school and have been putting it on the back burner, but find your teaching style helpful in illuminating an type of discrepancy one may have.

All in all, glad you're a teacher cause you do a great job.

[beforeyouwakeup]

you are cool