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Auntie Maria
Ha`aha`a
USA
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 Posted - 05/28/2008 : 04:58:59 AM
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This may have been mentioned before -- advance apologies if so, but it's worth a double-mention.
The Hawai`i Magazine website has an audio page, with the marvelous Puakea Nogelmeier giving correct pronunciation of a few Hawaiian words:
http://www.hawaiimagazine.com/hawaiian_words
I could listen to him read a phone book, and still swoon! 
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Sarah
`Olu`olu
571 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2008 : 08:53:32 AM
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Aloha Auntie Maria (*wave!*)
Very cool! He is an expert (too bad they couldn't include the kahakÅ but...) and you are right, his voice is very compelling :-)
aloha,
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da_joka
Lokahi
361 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2008 : 10:17:11 AM
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| ho, so da "w" in Hawaiian is no sound like one "v" but jus moa like da ragulah w??? How come we wen learn dat in school liddat? |
If can, can. If no can, no can. |
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ypochris
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 05/29/2008 : 12:17:48 PM
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Sometimes I hear native speakers say a "w" like an English "w", sometimes like an English "v", but usually it seems to be somewhere in between. Or at least that is how I hear it...
Chris
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