07/02/2012-07/06/2012

This week was pretty easy, compared to the last couple of weeks. We did a lot with Pepeke Painu and Pepeke Nono'a He and translating stories from 'Olelo Hawai'i to 'Olelo Pelekania.  Pepeke Painu was a new sentence structure we learned. It was a verb sentence pattern that describes the action that is taking place. This one was really easy, so it didn't take me a long time to get the hang of it. This sentence structure was the same as the other Pepeke's structure we used. So, we referred to the he'e with the po'o, piko, and 'awe. If you got this sentence structure down, it makes making sentences a lot more easier. For example, you can have the sentence "I read at school." It would translate to "Heluhelu au i ke kula." "Heluhelu", being the po'o. "au", being the papani as in P.I.N.K. And "i ke kula", being the 'ami. So, yeah this one was easy to learn and get the hang of. And to ho'ole this sentence pattern is real easy, all you gotta do is add "'a'ole" to the front. We even learned how to say past tense.  It's called Pepeke Ua Painu. You just have to add the word "Ua" to the front of the sentence, right next to the painu. "Ua" is kinda like the "-ed" at the end of a verb. So, for example, a sentence could say "we cruised in Waimea." This sentence would translate into "Ua holoholo i Waimea." When you ho'ole this sentence you replace "ua" with an "i" and add "'a'ole" to the front".This one was real easy, too. Another Pepeke Painu we learned was the Pepeke E painu. This was a sentence commanding or suggesting someone to do something. You would begin the sentence woth "E" followed by the verb. You would also use "e" to address someone. One example is if you had to translate "Eh Hinano, go to the house", it would be "E Hinano, E hele 'oe i ka lumi. For the Piko, it can only consist of these five papanis: 'oe, 'olua, oukou, Kauai, and kakou. Pepeke E Painu Ana. Easy. This is a verb sentence pattern, of course, that says an action is going to happen. So for the piko, for me, I just look at the title. It says "E Painu Ana" so all I do is start off the sentence with "E", then the Painu, and then "Ana. See? Real simple. But since most of the sentences are probably gonna say the word "going" in it, like "she is going to kick the ball" or "he is going to jump on the bed", you gotta ignore the "is going". So for example, "the children are going to puns the taro" it would translate to "E ku'i ana nā keiki I nā kalo". The painu is going to be "pound" instead of "going". That'll just mess you up. So, finally, the last of the Pepeke Painus we larded is Pepeke Ke Painu Nei. This is a present tense verb sentence. Just like the Pepeke E Painu Ana, you look at the title. First the Ke, then the Painu, nd then ana. Pepeke Nono'a is another sentence pattern we learned. We learned how to say the "'s" in a word and how to say someone has possession over something. This one is tricky. So, I'll use the example "I have a hat". This would be translated to "he papale ko'u". Yeah it says "I" in it but you have to think of it as possessive. So you gotta use one of the kino 'ō/'ā. And "I have" would be He. Just like Pepeke Aiken He, there are no Hawaiian words for "has or have", so just use He. And we learned about ko or kā markers. The rule is to not put ko or kā markers when a Fab 6 is by itself. "we have a bike" would be "He pakikala ko kākou". "He has a wife" would be "He wahine kona" because the Fab 6 is by itself. "My dad has a truck" would be "He kalaka kā ko'u makua Kane". The fab 6 isn't by itself so you can use the ko or kā markers. Oh and we had to translate a whole story using context clues and everything to understand what's goin on. So this week was pretty easy. Looking forward to next week!

06/18/2012-06/22/2012

Okay, so this week was the hardest week of my life. We had to do so much work and learned like a million new things. We had to do so much stuff to do. Vocab, new sentence patterns, counting, new meles, and P.I.N.K. I could barely understand what was going on. Like there was so much stuff to learn. Words cannot explain. Everyday was a new thing to learn and I was still stuck on what we went over the day before. We had a test everyday. Even right now while i'm typing this. So, yeah, there's so much we had to go over. Vocab. We had to study and memorize like a million words a day. Just joking. Only like twenty-five. But it was still hard. And the next day we would have a test on the words. For me, it's more easier to translate the words from hawaiian to english. Everyday, our kumu would give us twenty-five words to study. We had to study words for things you find around your home, your school, in your family, verbs, and adjectives. Learning these new vocabulary words made it easier to create sentences. It was pretty easy trynna memorize the words. I studied by making notecards. I also practooced with my friends in the morning. So, that made things easier. We even learned new sentence patterns. Pepeke Aike He, Pepeke Aike 'A'ano. Weadded onto the Pepeke Aike He to make more harder by adding descriptive words to the sentences. So, instead of putting "I am a student" we added a descriptive word like "smart". "I am the smart student". This means more rules. And here comes the tricky one. Pepeke Aike 'O. I would always get this one and Pepeke Aike He mixed up. This one was probably the most difficult one to learn. But I could understand it better after we got to make posters for this. For this one we would have to make two 'ōkenas equal eachother. For the ho'ole we would have to take out the 'o part because it'll just be saying the same thing. Pepeke Aike 'A'ano is a descriptive sentence. You start it off by using an 'a'ano to describe an 'ōkena. To do this one you have to think about Yoda or pidgeon. So instead of saying "he is tall", you would say "Tall him" and the. Translate it into 'olelo Hawai'i. To me, this was the easiest one to learn. We evenlearned a way to construct these sentences by thinking of a he'e and their body parts. The po'o representing the What, adjective, or action. The piko represents anything P.I.N.K. The 'awe is the outcome. And between the 'awe and the piko, there has to be an 'ami that attaches them. We use i As the 'ami which means to or at. And you can have as much 'awes as you want. So I understood real fast. Another thing we learned was how to count up to one thousand. It's kinda easy to count now compared to last week. It's really easy because I practiced and we had alot of worksheets where we had to write the numbers out in 'ōlelo Hawai'i. If you know up to one hundred, then you can pretty much easily count up to one thousand and even pass that. Throughout this week we've been studying a new oli kahea. Kunihi. At first, it was really hard to memorize and all that. But everyday, I studied and memorized line after line. Then it became easier and I can say it without the words. It wasn't that long and didn't take a long time to remember. Now, like sometimes I just randomly start singing this oli in my head. I don't know. Now it's lust stuck in there. This oli is about the legend of Hi'iaka and Lohi'au. Lohi'au was Pele's lover. So this MELE talks about the journey of Hi'iaka went to go fetch Lohi'au. And finally, we learned about P.I.N.K. and what each letter stands for. The P stands for Papani, a pronoun. I stands for I'oa, a proper name. There are two types of I'oas. I'oa Paku which is a place. And the other one, I'oa Ma'uli which is a proper name. N stands for Nonoa, a posessive noun. K stands for Ka'i+Kikino. So, for papanis we learned eleven different papanis. Au, oe, and 'o ia means I, you, and him/her. The rest were groups of two and three. I'oa is a proper name like Ikaika, Kaleo, Waimea, or Nanakuli. A name or a place. For nonoa, we went over Kino 'o and Kino 'A. Kino 'O was possessive and you would use it for describing things that you had when you were born, things you could wear, get into, or like get on. There were words like ko'u, kou, and Kona. Kino 'A is used for thongs you acquired. I could memorize the difference because kino 'a, I would think a for acquire. You would three words: ka'u, kau, and kana. For Ka'i+Kikino. A Kikino is a common noun like animals and stuff. And one rule is that if there is a kikino, there has to be a ka'i. A Ka'i leads the sentence at the end. But this rule doesn't apply to keia, kena, and kela. These will act as a Papani whenever their alone in a sentence. So umm yeah. That's alot of stuff. But i'm still looking forward to next week. But hopefully, it'll be more easier.

06/12/2012-6/15/2012

   This week, we learned a lot. I learned about Haloa, mele kino, pi'apa, na hleu, and na ninau 'umi. On the first and second day we learned about Haloa. On the first day the kumus made pa'i 'ai to teach us about how we're all connected. Haloa was the first born hawaiian. We read more about him on the second day of summer school. Haloa died when he was born and so his mom buried him. Where he was buried, a kalo plant grew in his place. That day we learned Mele Kino, a childish song that taught us our body parts in 'olelo Hawai'i. It was like head, shoulders, knees, and toes. It went from our po'o all the way to our manamana wawae. It was a fun song to learn. Throughout this week, we learned na ninau 'umi. Ten questions asking who we are, where we're from, our about our parents, and our birthdays. I learned how to ask and answer in 'olelo Hawai'i. This week we also focused on pi'apa and the rules. There are thirteen letters in the hawaiian alphabet. Five vowels: a, e, i, o, u. And eight constonants: h, k, l, m, n, p, w, and the 'okina. ʻOkinas are used to make breaks in between vowels. This is also a rule, 'okinas can only be used between vowels, not constonants. Constonants can' be next to eachother either. Thats called a constonant cluster. Another rule is that a word can't end with a constonant. There is even at least one vowel in every word. Another thing we learned about this weekend was about Pepeke Aike He, a general statement. It stated that something or someone is a, are a, or am a. One thing to remember is that there's no hawaiian word for is, are, or am. That just messes everything up because when your trynna translate a sentence your english mind is going crazy and trynna mess you up. So, it took me a while to remember that there are no words for is, are, or, am. We learned three papanis this week, too. Ppanis are pronouns. Au, oe, and 'o ia. Those are the three papanis we learned this week. Au means I. Oe means you. And 'o ia mean him/her/. This took forever for me to memorize. So like we had two get into two lines in the middle of the room like everyday and had to keep saying it over and over again. This helped. Throughout this week, we even learned hot to count. Na helu. We learned how to count up to one hundred so far. It's pretty easy now cause we gotta practice like everyday. At first it was super hard. I was like "what language is this?!?" I knew hot to count up to ten already but learning up to one hundred was really hard. But when we started doing all worksheets and stuff for it, I got it down. So now it's easier. So this week was fun, but we gotta learn so much like oh my gosh. Okay, but I'm looking forward to next week.

06/13/2012

   Today, we read about Haloa, sang mele kino, took a test, and learned about na helu. In the beginning,  we brought out the lauhala mats and everyone sat in a circle. We took turns reading about Haloa. Whoever read had to read in both english and Hawaiian. Then, we learned Mele Kino. It's like head, shoulders, knees, and toes. Then, we took a test on our na ninau 'elima. We had to go outside with kumu and he asked us the questions. We had to answer in 'olelo Hawai'i. It was hard for me because I couldn't memorize it good. Ha Helu is the numbers. Today, we learned all the way up to one hundred. So, after, we got in a circle and we went in a circle saying the number that comes next to see how long it took us. We took so forever. It took us nine minutes and forty seconds. So, if we keep practicing we could do it faster. It's pretty hard. For me, it's easy in the beginning up to nineteen, but then I get lost in the twenty's. But after the twenties it's all good. I'm looking forward to tomorrow and I need to practice.

06/12/2012

   Today was a fun first day of summer school. I learned about connection and Haloa, the hawaiian alphabet, na ninau 'elima, and we had a scavenger hunt. So, the first thing our class did this morning was our kumus took us outside and they made pa'i 'ai. They did this to teach us about connection and Haloa, the first born hawaiian. It taught us how we're all connected. Later, when we went back to class, we learned about pi'apa, the hawaiian alphabet. It had thirteen letters. Five vowels: a, e, i, o, u. And eight constonants: h, k, l, m, n, p, w, and the 'okina. Then we learned na ninau 'elima which was five questions about ourselves. It asked who we are, where we came from, and who our parents are. We had to learn how to ask and answer the questions in 'olelo Hawai'i. Near the ending of class, we went to the library and did a scavenger hunt for our syllabus and handbook. It was so we could get familiar with the rules and no where to find things. So, today was a fun day and i can't wait to learn more.