Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 10, Number 7, 1 July 1993 — Opportunities to learn abound [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Opportunities to learn abound

There are lots of opportunities to learn Hawaiian. Community education classes are offered by Kamehameha Schools (eall 8428279), the state DOE (eall 3959453), the University of Hawai'i, and community colleges. Folks working in downtown Honolulu ean brown-bag their way to eonversational Hawaiian at 1 1 a.m. and noon on Wednesdays at 'Iolani Palaee Barracks (eall 5220822). If you can't make it to a class, there are other ways to learn. There are a number of good instruction books, including the late Robert Lokomaika'iokalani Snakenberg's Hawaiian Word Book and Hawaiian Sentence Book, Kahikāhealani Wight's Learn Hawaiian at Home, and Alberta Pualani Hopkins' Ka Lei Ha'aheo: Beginning Hawaiian. Cassette tapes are available, too. There are also a eouple of books that unloek the meanings of the many Hawaiian words we

encounter daily: Plaee Names of Hawai'i and Rich B u d n i e k ' s Hawaiian Street Names. And let's not forget the most important puke of all, Pūku'i's and Elbert's Hawaiian Dictionary. Plus, it can't hurt to just listen in: radio station KCCN 1420 am features "Ka Leo Hawai'i," a Hawaiian language talk show, Sunday evenings at 7. What are you waiting for? Live your culture - perpetuate the Hawaiian language! E ola mau ka 'ōlelo Hawai'i!

Words to live by.