Telling Stories, Developing Confidence
String sentences together into paragraph-length stories, written and spoken, with traditional literature and recordings of native speakers.
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi about 20% of the timeSee a class in action
A new CH2B sampler video is coming soon.
Is this course for you?
- You’ve been through CH2A a few times.
- You want to tell stories and narrate events in Hawaiian.
- You’d like to hear and read the language of native speakers.
Before you start: CH2A, usually taken more than once.
What you’ll learn
- Short stories and narratives
- Pepeke Nonoʻa No/Na (belonging)
- ʻAwe nonoʻa
- Kuʻa joining particles e and i
- Iʻoahenua in ʻawe henua and ʻawe lauka
- Compressed and uncompressed possessives
- Sequences of actions
- Times past and future
- Nō, naʻe and paha
- Tense markers for storytelling
- Asking for things with «i»
- Making actions transitive with «hoʻo»
- Poʻe, wahi and nui as kaʻi
Tuesday Sections
You sign up for the course, not a Section. Join whichever one suits you each week.
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| Section | Class time (Hawaiʻi) | Your time · |
|---|---|---|
| Section 1 | Tue 1:00 pm | |
| Section 2 | Tue 3:00 pm |
Hawaiʻi doesn’t change its clocks, so your local time may shift by an hour when yours change. Full schedule
Inside every class
Community Building TimeEach class opens with about twelve minutes for classmates to talk together in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, at whatever level you’re at, in a friendly, judgement-free space. Kumu Kaliko listens in and sends word hints in the chat.
Live teaching, then recordingsThe rest of the hour is live instruction. Every Section is recorded and posted with the combined class notes within 24 hours.
Your Kaiāulu course SpaceVideos, lesson PDFs and homework live in your course’s private Space, where you can also chat with classmates between classes.
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