Its so cool to see someone speak Olelo Hawai'i so fluidly and naturally. The majority of speakers today are second language learners so it doesn't sound as natural.

Getting a dog soon and want to name her something that means heaven sent or gift from heaven (we are thinking, or hoping at least, that our two late soul dogs are sending her to us). Could you help us pronounce some of our favorites? • Mililani • Leilani • Nalani • Pualani • Aolani • Noelani Do you have any other suggestions? Also, how to tou correctly pronounce the Disney resort, Aulani?

O Beretania ka hoohawaii ana i ka hua olelo Britannia.

Maitai loa tia witio nei, ite katou ta waiwai o ta olelo mawaena na po’e lahui kanaka. Mahalo nui loa no tia witio nei.

As a Spanish speaker I feel like I can pick up this language

Love these it helps alot to speak more often. Mahalo

Thank you 🤙🏽

Can i live with you folks so i can speak like my ancestors

uiha! hoopau ‘ia no keia wikio holooko’a (maopopo pono nae? malia paha….). Very intersting, learned many new huaolelo. now e holomua i keia mahele a’e!

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Mahalo for da video

How do you pronounce Laie?

Very helpful ❤

Omg piikoi I never get it right lol

When I 1st moved here I used exit number but quickly realized no1 knows them by exit number lol

Mahalo for sharing your journey! I can see and feel your humbleness as you speak both in Olelo and English. Keep the lessons coming.

I am from India..i dont understand the language..i can feel the energies n feeling as if i know the language....loving to listen you both talking ❤❤❤❤❤❤lots of gratitude from India

It's great that the state is slowly adding the ʻokina and kahakō to street signs.

Mahalo no keia wikio. Hauoli au e hoomaa i ka Olelo Hawaii i ho’olohe ia oe. Uwe ka pepe ma ka background ~7:00? 😂 ka'u mau popoki ho'olohe i ka uwe

English has glottals too. Midwestern US accent says, ʻmoun’in’ for ʻmountain’ and ʻimport’nt’ for ʻimportant’. Those are glottals. UK English has lots more glottals. Funny how Japanese does not have glottals, but for local families, like the Fujii family (the double ii indicates a long ī), but locals (even Fujii family members) say ʻFuji‘i’ as if there is a glottal in there. lol. Love how foreign languages took away Hawaiian glottals in local language (and the distinction between long and short vowels), but Hawaiian added glottals to foreign words too...

Thanks for this video. I struggle with "Keeaumoku".

My husband is HPD and he usually has to repeat street names incorrectly for people to understand what street he’s referring to. Hopefully correct pronunciation will continue to catch on with time and more videos like this one. Mahalo malu!

yay I been saying them right

Your mother's chickens and property are beautiful. Thank you for showing us! 😊

Same as Zulu that’s how we say our vowels! How crazy is that !

The vowels are like Spanish and Japanese

This one real kanaka right here.

Vowel are identical to Japanese あいうえお which is interesting Are there kids books in hawaiian because id love to dabble in them. I cant find many recources

Black man moving to Hawaii for work definitely want learn the language fluently. That you for your vids

Why doesn’t aalii alahee need the ‘okina to make it a-a and i-i? And what about the diphthongs lanai =lan-eye? ;and a word you mentioned i now forget that ended in ei? Thanks!!!

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Mahalo for the english. Itʻs a good reference when learning

He wikio waiwai loa no ka ulu ana o ka oleo hawaii. Aloha no ia laua no keia makana nani. Aole hiki iau ke maopopo i ka mea apau, aka, he mele no ka pepeiao no hoʻi e. "Ko mou ko mamua keia he honua lepo no one no ma o ulu nahehele like no me kena. Ua hele loa au ma anei nei. O kou wa liilii ua loaa ka, ua paʻi kii, a , he kii onioni nui. " I look forwards to learning from this. Thank you for helping grow the language. It is greatly appreciated.

Man so similar to cookisland Māori - Kiaorana, pe’ea koe? Meitaki lol

This is very interesting. Didn’t know this about the word aloha

Mahalo no teia wikio e palala. Ke Ho’oma’a nei wau I ta ‘Ōlelo Hawai’i piha no ku’u ‘Ohana. E lohe mai ia’u ka leo kūpuna me ‘oe, piha no ho’i. Mahalo iā’oe no ka ho’omau ana I ka ‘Ōlelo kūpuna a me nā leo Maoli. Mahalo ia lakou no ka hana pono i ho’omau no matou.

I hear this split across Molokai where theyʻll either say it with or without the ʻokina. I think it was when it was put into writing it went through a lot of changes and the ʻokina got added. I donʻt remember it too well anymore though.

Omg! We are related. My great grandparents, great aunties and uncles are from Kahana and that is the grave in Kahana, where they passed away from the hurricane on April Fools’ Day 1946. Everyone thought the hurricane was a April fools joke.

Manaia tele le fa’alogo atu i le gagana fa’a Hawaii. Hope more Hawaiians will learn and speak their olelo Hawaii ❤

mio loa cheehee

I wish they made translation for hawaiian for the close captioning... mahalo

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ono kela make some sinigang!

A very enjoyable two part interview.

REAL WALA'AU KANAKA IA CONVERSATIONAL NOT FOR WRITTEN. EVERYONE WHO LEARNED VIA UNIVERSITY GOT MORE LOST FROM THE GRAMMAR BEING ADDED. FOR LEARN FASTER, YOU GUYS WHO IS FROM HAWA'I, THINK PIDGIN HAOLE 1ST, THE USE THAT FOR WALA'AU.

Thats me lol😢...ke ao nei au i ke olelo hawaii but hillahila au because even if Kaimi put himself at level 1 (which I don't like doing number levels either lol) then I guess I'd put myself at like .00001 😅

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Cheeehoo! Mahalo! No ka kanaka oiwi stuck in Utah!!!

Wawa ka mele. Ale hiki ke lohe maikai

Beautiful explanation Braddah. Thank you for sharing your mana'o about mana'o! 😊🤙