I'm Mexican and I'm learning the Hawaiian language. I'm very attracted to everything related to Hawaii, I hope to go one day and knowing this beautiful land. Thank you very much for making these videos.

@ravenwolfkittyface1802

Жыл бұрын

How’s the learning going?

@marie-agnesajmma7613

Жыл бұрын

Holà !! So am I ! 🥰 It's been so many years since I had started. I've just decided to start learning again, very seriously this time. 💥 I dream of going there some day too ! ALOHA from France 🌺

@Itsmelody1234

Жыл бұрын

Yo tambien soy de mexico, saludos 😭😭😭✨

@angelb2412

10 ай бұрын

The Hawaiian vowels sound very similar to Spanish vowels

@TunaSampaio

Ай бұрын

Aloha. mahalo for trying to learn Kou beautiful Olelō

Thank you for sharing your precious story! My great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother were Hawaiian immigrants and went to Hawaii for three years, where my great-grandfather was born! Apparently they often told their children about their time in Hawaii after returning to Japan. Suo-Oshima Town, Yamaguchi Prefecture, where I live, is a sister island of Kauai, Hawaii, so I went to Kauai on a school trip when I was in high school! It's a wonderful place, and the memories of my homestay there are treasured! Currently, as Yamaguchi Hometown Ambassadors, we are performing music as a brother-sister duo, spreading love throughout Japan. Recently, my sister and wife have also started learning hula dancing, and I am currently practicing hula and uploading them to KZread every day. When I sing hula songs, I am also sending gratitude to my ancestors. Let me attach a video! kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYqc0816iLCel5c.htmlsi=-hTl34OVwIPIj2CJ

I am from germany and currently on O'ahu. The pronounciation acutally matches pretty much how I speak those letters. Very intersting insight.

I'm from Brazil and a student of hula. I study with Duolingo but this Chanel is beautiful because teaches the grammar and so it's more easy to comprehension de language structure. Thank you very much, Mahalo nui! 🙂

This was a very well done and clear guide! Subscribed.

Thank you so much for making this video I am part Samoan but I have never learned the language this is helping me learn my native language so thank you so much for showing this💙

I was raised in Hawaii ~ been 25 years since I been back home, eyes getting a bit watery. Thank you so much. ~ Pume Hana Meke Aloha 🌺

Thank you for helping me begin learning the Hawaiian language! I really needed it because I wanna learn more about my Hawaiian culture so I decided to pick it’s language!! ❤️🙏🏾

This is the most helpful video for a person who speaks only European languages and a little bit of sign language. Polynesian languages are so hard for me! Mahalo!

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! I’m glad it was helpful 😊

This is so brilliantly structured, thank you!

The kahako functions similar to Filipino words, where enunciation and stress placement changes meaning. Looking forward to revisit this language and once again become fluent in it

This is an extremely helpful video. Thank you so much for making this!

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Naʻu ka hauʻoli, Mahalo for watching!

@marie-agnesajmma7613

Жыл бұрын

@@KeAlohaNoHawaii MAHALO piha !! It really helps a lot on different levels (it helps keeping a steady motivation too). 🥰 A hui hou KĀKOU !!! No Palani au 🌳🌾🌲

Thank you so much. My wife is half Hawaiian, so my children are part Hawaiian, so I take pride on her culture and have been trying to find our families tribal tattoo so I can represent my Ohana.

@Erika-pq7ip

10 ай бұрын

Aww this is so sweet of you

Absolutely brilliant breakdown & explanations.

Beautiful! Thank you so much!

Thank you very much! This really helped a lot with our project in Linguistics!

Laura. A weekly practice video... listening to new Hawaiian sentences and their pronunciation with any additional nuances would be of great help in speaking Hawaiian.

Oh my gosh, I just found your channel. So, so helpful! Thanks you so much!

Mahalo Nui I love Hawaii and the people .Learning this helps bring me closer with more respect and understanding. Aloha mahalo. 🙏🏾🤟🏾

You are a very good teacher. I can understand you clearly

this was super helpful! thank you!!

Love this video, thank you!🥰🙏💖

Thank you so much for this video! ❤️

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Excellent, thank you for the help.

I am kanaka and it is very hard to find someone teaching Olelo mahalo nui for teaching

Very helpful! Thanks.

just decided to begin studying Hawaiian! this video really helped me (I decided to learn because my name is Hawaiian and I wanted to learn more about it!)

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo nui for watching!

@Mariana-sz5oz

3 жыл бұрын

What does your name mean?

Thanks for your tricky teaching We're grateful to you 🙏

The best video I found about it! Thank you so much. Also, I saw your channel and the content is so on point, straight-forward, practical and grammar-focused, just what I was looking for. Please continue educating! I am very excited to learn ōleo hawai'i! Hugs from Brazil.

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

4 жыл бұрын

Mahalo! I am so happy you're finding it useful!

Thank you very much! I want to learn Hawaiian and this video helped me a lot with the pronunciation, and it's well explained too

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Hi Laura, I was looking for an easy way to review what I learned in high school, way back when... I can across your KZread channel, and I have to say you are totally awesome for doing this! Maika'i! Mahalo Nui Loa!

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo nui!

This is so helpful! Mahalo!

Mahalo for this video.

Thank you so much❤❤❤

daghang salamat from Philippines.

Thank you!

woww thank you so much!! i got interested in the hawaiian language and culture since i found out my nickname (nalu) meant "wave" in hawaiian, and i also play ukulele. now i want to learn this language, and your video was soooo helpful as an introduction!! i couldn't thank you enough for that! mahalo !^^

The vowels are like latin ones. I'm from Romanian(a latin language) and the vowels sounds are exactly the same.

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I noticed that as well!

@mew11two

3 жыл бұрын

Romanian has like 2 extra vowels and no length distinction though

@mihaifloares2503

3 жыл бұрын

​@@mew11two Yes ă â and î. Î and  sound the same, but Î is used at the beginning/end of an word. In english, for example a is "ei", e is "i", i is "ai", o is əʊ(like "ou"), u is iu. That's what I meant. In hawaiian and latin languages(and probably more) the vowels are made of 1 single sound unlike english.

i know hawaiian already but this is a great video and your voice is so soothing!

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo nui!

❤🤗😀❤ Love this video! Love to watch many more of these! So intresting to know more. Got intrested in learning the Hawaiin language after I found videos on f.b of some amazing hawaiin dancers perform with both dance and song in the most amazing way. And slso learning that the language was almost lost and still needs more to speak it to keep it alive for the future❤. Keep up the good work!!🤩👍🇸🇪

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo for watching and taking the time to leave a comment 🤗. Aren’t the dancers just amazing! I love watching videos on KZread of the past Merrie Monarch Festivals.

@hannalindstrom575

3 жыл бұрын

@@KeAlohaNoHawaii Mahalo to you to for writing back^^ Yeah they are really amazing!😍👍 Me too, It's really amazing and fun to watch them train for it and then compete! Soo mesmerizing! Would love to see a real performance like that someday if I got the chance to go🥰🤗🌟. Want to learn some more hawaiian until then😁👍

I am moving to HI in a month and want to embrace the culture. I am loving learning the language!! Been on duolingo and its so fun! This series explains so much that duolingo doesn't! Mahalo nui❤

@bellarae4902

11 ай бұрын

i’m also moving there in a month!

I AM FROM BRAZIL BUT I LOVE HAWAIAN CLUTURE AND ISRAEL KAMAKAWIWO'OLE THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO! _MAHALO NUI_

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo for watching!

I have some experience wih Japanese so this seems relatively simple and easy 😁

Mahalo Nui 🙏🏾. A hui hou.

yes😊

Thank you so much! I
m doing a linguistic project about Hawaiian and it is extremely helpful ;)

I’m Spanish and I get the accent quick 😊

'O pepeluali ka mahina 'olelo Hawai'i. Hau'oli mahina 'olelo Hawai'i! With that in mind I want to learn Hawaiian before the mouth is out. Any advice? Lastly I am learning Hawai'i on doulingo and most of your videos are about the same subjects, so in short if you have time can do the Hawaiian course on doulingo and than make videos about each lesson. Thanks for being here to teach me Hawaiian. Have a blessed day.

Mahalo nui loa no Kēia wikio. Ke a’o nei au i ko’u mau poki’i i ka ‘ōlelo makuahine.

The vowels are exactly as we say in Portuguese And the ditongos as well

Thanks maam Please can you do more of it

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Mahalo for watching! I hope you've had the chance to watch the other videos on my channel. I took a little break for a while, but I just recently release some new vocabulary videos, and hope to post more often this year!

Hawaiian seems to be a good language to learn

Mahalo nui.

So helpful! Thank you

Thought it would be a good idea to learn Hawaiian Because I live in a place where Hawaiian is commonly used xD

Aloha! E ui aku ana au ia oe… Would you mind explaining more behind the accent differences (Lā being a palatal R, Kē being a T, etc…) as I can’t seem to find much about that! Mahalo nui loa ^^

You are great! Mahalo! Thank you for this nice video. How do I say in Hawaiian "I am very happy because I have money and it is sunny!"

Thanks for this video! Quick question: I have seen words that *begin* with an 'okina. Does that affect the pronunciation of the word, or is it just there to make sure you don't create a diphthong with the word that precedes it?

im just trying to teach myself many langues so im not a dissapointment to my fam no more, prove them that i can do sum great.

@yologreek

Ай бұрын

How its goes

The vowels is the same pronunciation in Portuguese , very interesting

2:33 | In Slovak it's exactly same

The pronounciation is also very similar in German.

It's not just how vowel are pronounced in Hawaii but how more than 3000 languages in the world pronounce vowels.

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Very true!

Mahalo no kēia koho, koho iki kou leo.

Is there one for android phones?

Okay. So I'm actually Hawaiian. About 25% I'm told. So when I told my Aunt I started learning German, she reccomended I learn some Hawaiian. To protect the heritage of my people, or something

when you mentioned the dollar, i immediately said “une kālā” as if french and ‘ōlelo hawai’i were the same language-

@IosuaKaalekahi

2 ай бұрын

Whaaaaat!? That happens often I guess but 🤔not often enough for me to provide an example 😐🤔🤫😅😅

The pronunciation of the w as s soft v is exactly the same in Spanish b / v :) I believe the ipa symbol is /β/

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

I've noticed a lot of similarity in sounds between Hawaiian and Spanish. The "w" in Hawaiian is interesting because you can hear it pronounced a lot of different ways depending on the person, but I tend to use that soft "v" sound.

Great video! If we have a specific pronunciation question (in regards to the 'okina), is there an email address we can contact you by? Please let me know. Thanks.

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the late reply here. I'm trying to respond to comments more often, so if you have a pronunciation question, you can leave it as a comment -- which is helpful because others might have the same question!

Haha thanks! I keep saying “ Loaʻa iā ʻoe kahi ka lā keu?” to my friends and they think I am crazy..

Great video! Could you further explain the differences between "ae" and "ai?" They sound very similar. Also, "ao" and "au."

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, those two pairs are definitely the hard ones! "Ae" should sound pretty much like the English word "eye" (American accent). But keep it open at the end. Practice slowly "Ah" going into "Eh" and then speed it up more and more. For "Ai", I actually hear a lot of native Hawaiian speakers begin that diphthong with more of a "uh" sound for the "A" (rather than "Ah") and then is glide into the "i" (pronounced "ee"). Try it slowly "Uh...ee", then go faster and faster. "Ao" will be similar to "Ae". Start with "Ah" and then slowly go into "Oh". Then speed it up. And "Au" will be similar to "Ai", where you'll start with more of an "Uh" sound and then glide into "Oo". Again, start slow and then speed it up. I feel like "Ae" and "Ao" keep the mouth more open and their counterparts "Ai" and "Au" are more closed. Hope that helps!

@carolvsworld1514

4 жыл бұрын

@@KeAlohaNoHawaii Mahalo!

I was directed to check out how Hawaiian sounds like by someone claimed that mine own language is supposedly somehow similar sounding ... Well, by the looks of it, we have more phonemes and where Hawaiian uses “ā” we write “aa” and ’ isn't used, but is pronounced (I think: "veeanum" would be "vē'anum” for Hawaiian, and "õeelu” would become “õe'elu”?)

@KohaAlbert

Жыл бұрын

Actually, no. Ignore what I said about ‘okina... However “kala" is "fish" in Finnic languages.

Hello vorrei sapere come si pronuncia letteralmente e con la giusta cadenza, moe' uhane. Grazie.

I non-flowing speech, I always add an ‘okina sound because words beginning in vowels in my dialect of English, and this carries over to Hawai’ian, How can I get rid of that ‘okina sound? I can’t say words that begin with vowels without that ‘okina.

Do you have any pointers on pronouncing words that start with an ‘okina? For instance, how do ‘ala and ala differ from one another.

@severussnapple2366

3 жыл бұрын

This would prevent the vowel glide from occurring across words as mentioned in the example at 10:15

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry for the late reply. You know, the way that most people pronounce English words that start with a vowel (e.g. "apple"), that pretty close to creating that 'okina sound. I would say that it's actually hard for English speakers to replicate the sound when the Hawaiian word starts with a vowel without an 'okina -- which requires you to ease into that vowel sound.

@tylersmith3139

Ай бұрын

You know how some British people say Bu'uh instead Butter or how Americans don't really pronounce the last "t" in "don't", it's just a stop. That stop/glottal stop is the okina. It's a sharp pause/stop between sounds.

I’m going to Hawaii so I thought to learn it º-º

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

That's great! Yes, you'll came across a lot of place names and streets in Hawaiian, so this should help you pronounce them :)

@xmoonbellxrose8289

3 жыл бұрын

@@KeAlohaNoHawaii thanks it’s helping so much🙂

Sometimes the “a” vowel has an /uh/ sound, right? Like in the word maika’i - from what I’ve been hearing, it’s not Mai-kah-I as much as mai-kuh-i. Or “Au” is less ah-u as uh-u. Just something I’ve noticed.

0:33 This is how we say voules in croatian, consistently just like in hawaiian Edit: alot of these letters is similar to croatian

i’m hawaiian, should’ve paid more attention in class ngl

Kala means fish in Finnish. Amazing we are on the other side of the world!

@Purple_Box

2 жыл бұрын

Also, Hawaiian is pronounced very similarly to Finnish. Both and vowels and consonants sound very much alike.

I came here because I heard that "Laniakea" is the name for our galaxy Supercluster and I wanted to know how to pronounce it in Hawaiian :) This was really helpful!

How are you supposed to pronounce the ‘Okina when it is at the beginning of a word?

@jennifertucker1496

3 жыл бұрын

Also how do you pronounce these?: aa ee ii oo uu

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'll admit it's pretty hard to distinguish between 'okina and no 'okina at the beginning of the word. The best way I can describe it, is when there is no 'okina at the beginning of the word, you kind of ease into the vowel. But with the 'okina, you have the glottal stop. Like say the vowels how you would in English "a", "e", etc., the way we tend to say those is with a glottal stop, almost like it has an okina. Another note: if a word starts with a vowel, but it's in the middle of the sentence, that beginning vowel will blend in with the vowel that ends the preceding word to create a diphthong. For example, the phrase "ka i'a" means "the fish". I'a does not start with an okina. But when combine with the "ka" before, it creates that diphthong, as if you were saying "kai 'a".

@KeAlohaNoHawaii

3 жыл бұрын

If there is no 'okina between those vowels, you would just extend the sound of the vowel -- similar to what happens with the kahakō.

E nana ke wala’au apau....🥺😩 it’s almost overwhelming how much “Aloha” resonates from within this comment section(I’m seriously tearing up) too many people...my wife included discount themselves and see themselves irrelevant!? Simply because they’re not native Hawaiian 😱😭 for 1”Hawaiian” is not a “hawaiian” word lol😅 We don’t call ourselves Hawaiian... we call ourselves “ Kanaka Maori” which literally means human/likewise...who speaks Maori... and it’s a way of life, a way of thinking...we don’t distinguish between physical characteristics but physical interaction , Hawaiian isn’t in your always in your blood...it’s in your heart🥺🤙🏽🤙🏽... e kala mai...😅that was lactose intolerant level cheesy 😂😂😂😂 cheeeeeeeeehoooooo🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽🤙🏽 Malama pono kakou!

How much do you charge to learn the proper way of speaking the Hawaiian language ?

I did that in Hawaiian class like these A E I O U l and these He Ke La Mu Nu Pi We

'A'ole maopopo ia'u.

@gmwell1

8 ай бұрын

Don't know what?

Thankfully German vowels are pronounced exactly the same!

why no V >>> Please spell volcano

@VannahGreen

3 жыл бұрын

Volcano is not a Hawaiian word

@S0ph13_Kei

Жыл бұрын

Lua Pele is how you say Volcano in Hawaiian