The lessons shown below are broken down into short easy-to-digest topics. You should plan on 10 to 20 minutes to read and learn the material, and then spend a day practicing what you have learned before moving on to the next lesson in the series.
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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- Pronunciation Practice: Vowels
- 0401V 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
- 0503V 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
- 0601G Kaʻi #1 Introductory Lesson Worksheet
- 0601V The Kaʻi Determiners #1: He
- 0602G Kaʻi #2 Lesson Worksheet
- 0602V The Kaʻi Determiners #2: Ka, Ke
- 0603V The Kaʻi Determiners #3: Kekahi
- 0604V Memeʻa Content Words
- 0605V Iʻoa Proper Nouns #1
- 0606V ʻAmi Particles #1: i, ma
- 0607V ʻAmi Particles #2: me, i, iā
- 0608V The Kaʻi Determiners #4: kēlā, kēnā, kēia
- 0609V 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
- 0902P ʻAilāʻau The Forest Eater
- 0902Q 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
- E Kōkua i nā Kūpuna ʻElua ʻo “Pepeke ʻAike He” lāua ʻo “Pepeke ʻAike ʻO”
- A Glossary of Hawaiian Words in Hawaiian Pidgin English
- Hawaiian language analysis of the song “Puamana” (1401M)
- Hawaiian Number Basics: 1 to 100
- Hawaiian Pidgin English: A Brief History
- Hoʻomaʻamaʻa “Nui”, Nonoʻa, and Iʻoahenua Combined Practice 1
- 0403R How To Write The ʻOkina
- Ka and Ke Quiz #1
- No Ke Kāmelopadi #1 (3302T)
- 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
- Planned Coursework Outline
- Pōʻino i ka Lio (3301T)
- Video Technical Specifications and Help