The state doesn't have enough teachers to keep up with demand for schools taught in Hawaiian. Upcoming retirements are ...

The voice was soft and scratchy, as if a bit timid in front of the microphone. "Ae," she said, meaning "yes" in Hawaiian, when asked a question by a male voice. "Ae hanau ia wau i Honoma'ele." ("Yes, ...

Hawaiian, one of Hawaii’s official languages, is now available as a course on Duolingo, a popular education platform available online and as an app. The Hawaiian language, or olelo Hawaii course was ...

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Kulaniakea is a nonprofit that offers preschool and toddler programs focused on Indigenous ways of learning. Above, students and a teacher aboard the Hokule‘a in 2019. In 2019, Kahanuola Solatorio, ...

Of the many language-learning apps on the market, for both adults and kids, none currently offers instruction in Hawaiian, a language that, according to The Endangered Languages Project, has fewer ...

Waimea Bay takes its name from the Hawaiian word for "reddish-brown waters." hey tiffany! via Flickr under CC BY-NC 2.0 The Hawaiian language has no term for “virtual reality.” At least, it didn’t in ...

“In one generation, olelo Hawaii was nearly erased,” Kainoa Daines, co-author of “Island Wisdom: Hawaiian Traditions and Practices for a Meaningful Life” and senior director of the Hawaii Visitors and ...

Hawaiian language activist Larry Kimura led the charge in the 1970s in getting Hawaii's Department of Education to sanction Hawaiian-language immersion schools. The state, however, did not offer any ...