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Luigi Pascioni,
Auto Mechanic
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Hawaiians had no written language until the haole (white-skinned people) arrived, so their genealogy and history were remembered in songs and chants.
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Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk
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Their culture and language were vigorously repressed, and many contemporary Hawaiians have lost contact with the views and practices of the ancient belief system.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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The early Hawaiians lacked a written language, and their culture was entirely oral and rich in myth, legend, and practical knowledge, especially of animals and plant life.
Through blending the traditional with the technological, Hawaiian Language Immersion teachers ( kumu kaiapuni ) are not only playing a crucial role in preserving the language, but also preparing their students as bilingual speakers capable of functioning in the technological world of the future.
The vast majority of the immersion teachers in these schools are not native speakers of the language, but have recently learned oral and written Hawaiian as adults through intensive language and culture courses of the Hawaiian Studies Program at the University of Hawai'i.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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If your project calls for words or phrases in the Hawaiian language or the beautiful music of our islands, point your browser to Ka Olelo Hawaii - a fun and colorful way to learn words and phrases.
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Chrissie Tanner,
Homemaker and Mom
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Most children in the immersion program are exposed to fluent oral Hawaiian until they attend elementary school, and a limited number have one or more years of Hawaiian language immersion in preschool.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Teachers must go through the same certification process as English language teachers in addition to demonstrating oral and written proficiency in Hawaiian before they can be hired permanently as immersion teachers.
These schools and the teachers working in the immersion programs have faced the daunting tasks of developing both oral language competence and literacy proficiency in Hawaiian with extremely limited materials available.
English and Hawaiian shall be the official languages of Hawaii, except that Hawaiian shall be required for public acts and transactions only as provided by law.
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Nick Lazzaro,
Adult Webmaster
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Free fonts are available for download from Kualono , the WWW site of Hale Kuamo'o, the Hawaiian Language Center at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo.
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Adam Findley,
Professional Motivator
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Language Patterns In addition to the students' immersion in Hawaiian throughout the content areas and through songs and chants, storybook reading, and a wide range of other oral and written language experiences, a portion of the Hawaiian Immersion curriculum focuses on the development of specific language patterns.
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