Today we began class by first reading a book called Hāloa. We read it out loud in order to
practice pronouncing Hawaiian words correctly. I thought this exercise was
really good because it pushed me out of my comfort zone and I learned a lot of new
material about the ancestry of Hāloa, Wākea, Papa, and the Hawaiian islands.
After finishing the book, we began to sing a few songs, for example we sang Mele Kino. This song gave us all the
Hawaiian names for our body parts. We also sang a song that taught us how to
count from one to ten in Hawaiian and another one but I forgot what it was
called. After our twenty minute break we took a quiz on our Nā ninau. Then we
went on to learn how to count from zero to one hundred in Hawaiian. After
practicing our numbers, we finally moved on to learning the papani, which are
au, ‘oe, and ‘oia. These three words translated into I, you, and he/she. The
number one thing that I believe I am struggling with is reading Hawaiian out
loud. I’m not sure how to pronounce a lot of the Hawaiian words when I see them.
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