kahana kelii
@PrimeMinister · 1:17
Does anyone wanna learn the Hawaiian language?
I know everything about it. I just want to share it with the world, share what I know, share a little bit about my culture. And I saw that I asked slow. They would like anyone would like to know. Anyone has a question, anyone has a word they would like me to translate, just let me know. But I hope everyone's having a good Wednesday. I hope everyone's having a good time
Jack .
@zejacques · 0:43
Gahana. What's up, man? You already know I love the anyone Hawaiian language. Definitely want to learn more. I know aloha and the meaning of and you've also deepened the understanding for me. But I have Hawaiian friends already. That kind of explained it, but again, you've made it more a deeper understanding dining. I also know mahalo. I heard you say the word for food the other day. I can't recall that one. I know moana
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:40
Hey, kahana, thank you for this offer. You know, it's so interesting to think about how many gems are in our brains that stay there unless we offer it up as an accessible, you know, place for people to mine hawaiian and learn things. So I'm very generous of you, and you sound so proud and loving of your language, and I'm really moved by that
kahana kelii
@PrimeMinister · 1:20
So how come means to eat? And I'm so happy that you got hawaiian friends that explain to you different languages and interact with you for the home and culture. It's amazing how our language is going throughout the whole world, and I love it so much. I grew up with that language. Hawaiian was my first language. I knew hawaiian before I even knew english. So I'm just happy that I can share my culture, my voice, our language stories with you
kahana kelii
@PrimeMinister · 4:57
Aloha. First, I want to say maho for coming in and for listening and wanting to learn my culture. And yes, I am very proud of my culture. I grew up learning Hawaiian as my first the language. And in Hawaii, how we say speaking Hawaiian is Oledo, Hawaii, and it means to speak Hawaiian. And I love my culture. I love teaching people, whoever wants to learn about it. It's so rare to talk to people who knows it so well
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
kahana kelii
@PrimeMinister · 4:48
And I just love that I can sit here and explain my culture to you. And at the same time, as you can hear playing ukulele, as we say, clinic appeal, playing the ukulele. So I hope you enjoy it. Any questions, please come and ask me if you want to know more words, anything. If you want to jot down some sentences that you would like to learn, please do it and come. And I'll be glad, I really be glad to teach you
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:28
Oh, wow. Kahana mahalo to you. This was amazing. You're such a natural teacher, and your your connection and your enthusiasm and your love for your culture is so beautiful. You know, it's so it's such a gift to love where you're from and to love the teachings of your great great grandparents and bring that forward. It's just magical. I really appreciate your presence here, and I play ukulele as well, and I play more like a little guitar strum
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 1:51
Definitely teach me how to say those. Say it slowly first, and then say it's regular, or say it regular, then say it slowly or phonetically, and then say it regular again for each phrase. And, yeah, I'll put those into practice over the next week. Thank you for the offer. Bye, you
Angela Copas
@ackenmaramack · 5:00
But I do think as far as, like, foreign languages in school, I think American Sign Language, ASL needs to be taught also just to if for anything, the inclusion part of it, I think that would go a long way. Rather than German, French, and Latin. Okay? Because who speaks Latin? No one. Not in Rome. This is america. There's not a lot of people from Rome that come here because I mean, Rome is spectacular
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:42
Hey, Kahana, I wanted to give you a suggestion about how to actually go about this. If you want to do this whenever you want to do it, every time you do a swell, a new swell, you can call it lesson one, lesson two, lesson three. And it could be a new word or or a new phrase or a new idea. And that way, your swell cast will be filled with different swells in it that are titled with lessons