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All lessons are arranged from beginner to advanced levels in each section: the basic Hawaiian lessons are numbered lower than the advanced lessons.
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- “ʻO ka makua ke koʻo o ka hale e paʻa ai.”
- Pronunciation Practice: Vowels
- Pronunciation #1: The Hawaiian Alphabet
- 0402P Pronunciation Practice: Kahakō
- 0402V Pronunciation #2: Macrons
- 0403P Pronunciation Practice: ʻOkina
- 0403V Pronunciation #3: The Glottal Stop
- 0404P Hakalama Practice Audio
- 0501V Spelling Hawaiian Words in Hawaiian
- 0502E Thoughts on the Number Twenty
- Traditional Hawaiian Number Groups
- 0504V Numbers Zero and One, Quantity and Question
- 0505V Hawaiian Number Prefixes #1: ʻA-, ʻE-
- 0506V Using Numbers #1
- 0514G Telling Time On The Hour
- 0515G Time on the Half Hour
- Kaʻi #1 Introductory Lesson Worksheet
- The Kaʻi Determiners #1: He
- Kaʻi #2 Lesson Worksheet
- The Kaʻi Determiners #2: Ka, Ke
- The Kaʻi Determiners #3: Kekahi
- Memeʻa Content Words
- Iʻoa Proper Nouns #1
- ʻAmi Particles #1: i, ma
- ʻAmi Particles #2: me, i, iā
- The Kaʻi Determiners #4: kēlā, kēnā, kēia
- Nonoʻa Possessive Kaʻi #1
- 0699R Hawaiian Parts of Speech
- 0702V Papani Pronouns #1: Au, ʻOe, ʻO ia
- 0703V Papani Pronouns #2: Kāua and Māua
- 0716E Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in Hawaiian
- 0800V The Pepeke #1: Sentence Parts
- 0801P Pepeke Henua Practice #1
- 0801P Pepeke Henua Practice #2
- 0801V Pepeke Henua Locational Sentences #1
- 0802V Pepeke Henua Locational Sentences #2
- 0901P Practice Describing Things #1
- ʻAilāʻau The Forest Eater
- Vocabulary Quiz #1 for ʻAilāʻau Story
- 1201C Nā Pō Mahina: The Hawaiian Moon Calendar
- 3401B He Moʻolelo Pōkole: Introduction
- 3401B He Moʻolelo Pōkole #1
- 3401B He Moʻolelo Pōkole #2
- “Aia me Niolopua”
- Anamanaʻo Papa ʻŌlelo Online
- CH1 Materials Index 202110
- Cumulative Quiz #1 for Kaʻi
- Basic Articles
- “Hakalama”
- Greetings
- Combining Kikino and ʻAʻano to Describe Objects
- The Future Tense
- Maui Vocabulary
- Sentence Subject Using Kikino (Common Nouns)
- Introducing Plural Article “Nā”
- Using “Ua” to Make the Past Tense
- Using “No ka mea” (Because)
- Oʻahu Vocabulary
- First-Person Pronoun “I” & Times of Day
- More Number Practice
- Second-person Pronoun “You”
- Using “i” for Destination
- Kauaʻi Vocabulary
- How to Say Where Something/Somewhere From
- Using “kekahi” and “kekahi mau”
- How To Use “iā” to Direct Action Towards Another Person
- How to Say “In Front Of” and “Behind”
- Quiz for Kauaʻi Island
- Molokaʻi Vocabulary
- How to Say Something is Somewhere using “aia,” “ma mua,” “ma hope,” “ma,” and “i”.
- How to say “on top of” and “underneath”; and using them with “aia”
- Showing Time Using “ma mua” and “ma hope”
- Lānaʻi Vocabulary
- Nā Māhele o ke Kino (Parts of the Body)
- How to Say “Should” In Hawaiian Using “E”
- Common Colours In Hawaiian
- Days and Months
- Review of Expressions Learned – Disc 2 through Disc 7
- Moving Parts of a Sentence Around
- Yes/No Question Intonation
- Quiz for Hawaiʻi Island
- Quiz for Maui Island
- Quiz for Oʻahu Island
- Quiz for Molokaʻi Island
- Quiz for Lānaʻi Island
- Program Introduction
- Hawaiʻi Vocabulary
- Dog In A Wetsuit
- E Kōkua i nā Kūpuna ʻElua ʻo “Pepeke ʻAike He” lāua ʻo “Pepeke ʻAike ʻO”
- E Ola Ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
- A Glossary of Hawaiian Words in Hawaiian Pidgin English
- Hawaiʻi Is My Native Land
- Hawaiʻi Island Story
- Puamana
- Hawaiian Number Basics: 1 to 100
- Hawaiian Numbers Basics Zero To Infinity
- Hawaiian Pidgin English: A Brief History
- “He ula, he iʻa noho i ka naele.”
- “He uouoa pili kahakai.”
- “Hoʻi hou i ka iwi kuamoʻo.”
- “Hoʻi hou i ke ehu me he moi lā.”
- Hōʻike Waenakau KHAW 453-K23
- 0403R How To Write The ʻOkina
- “I hele i kauhale, paʻa pūʻolo i ka lima.”
- “I kahiki ka ua, ʻako ʻē ka hale.”
- Ka and Ke Quiz #1
- “Ka hāʻawi a ka mea hale, koe koena ʻole ma kūʻono.”
- Kalaiwa: Hamani or Hehele?
- Kauaʻi Story
- Lānaʻi Story
- “Mai paʻa i ka leo, he ʻole ka hea mai.”
- Maui Story
- Memeʻa Quiz #1
- Memeʻa Quiz #2
- Memeʻa Quiz #3
- Memeʻa Quiz #4
- Memeʻa Quiz #5
- Moana ma ka ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi
- Molokaʻi Story
- No Ke Kāmelopadi #1 (3302T)
- “Noho lulu ʻo Mōʻīkeha i ka laulā o Kapaʻa.”
- Nonoʻa Quiz on Kinoʻō and Kinoʻā #1
- Nonoʻa Quiz on Kinoʻō and Kinoʻā #2
- Numbers Quiz: Matching 0 to 10
- Oʻahu Story
- ʻŌlelo Online Session Sampler
- The Hawaiian Alphabet (OOVC-CH1 2020-10-19)
- Macrons, Word Stress, and Articles (OOVC-CH1 2020-10-26)
- Greetings and Numbers (OOVC-CH1 2020-11-02)
- Photos of Kaliko Beamer-Trapp
- “Pili ʻohā, he kāmau mai waho.”
- Pōʻino i ka Lio (3301T)
- Pronunciation of the Hawaiian Alphabet
- Sentence Comprehension Quiz #1
- Something is in a state or condition, Quiz 1
- Making the Subject of the Sentence an Inoa (name)
- Time on the Quarter Hour (0516G)
- Translation Exercise KLH59
- Video Technical Specifications and Help