HONOLULU (KHON2) – As engineering innovations, so do the opportunities we have to also advance.
As Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, or Hawaiian Language Month, progresses, a absolutely free online application recognized as Duolingo carries on to acquire reputation all around the globe foremost to additional people knowing how to speak Hawaiian.
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I was ready to speak story with one particular of the guys who is guiding the application.
Thank you Maui for taking the time.
When we are talking of Duolingo, this initial of all has been 5 several years since Hawaiian has been involved in this.
Notify us a tiny about what Duolingo is and how has the past 5 many years been in phrases of engagement.
“Well, 1st of all, Duolingo is an on line language discovering app” claims Maui Bartlett, Remedies Engineer and Structure Direct at Kamehameha Colleges.
“You can down load it on your cellphone, on your laptop computer, you can understand a language at dwelling really easily. And we partnered, Kamehameha Schools and Kanaeokana, partnered with Duolingo to build this ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi course. From that time in 2018 to now, there is about 600,000 folks, end users globally about the world and listed here in Hawaiʻi, in America, all around the area employing this and learning ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.
What is the change between Duolingo and let us say other language programs?
“So 1 factor about Duolingo, in our partnership with them when we 1st begun to get the job done with them, they did not have recorded audio,” says Bartlett.
“All of the language of the key globe languages that they have been educating, all the audio for these languages, Spanish, French, English and many others, those people are pc produced voices. So, when we commenced doing the job with them, we actually required to make absolutely sure that folks could hear ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi spoken and discover. Even while they are doing work outside of the classroom, perhaps on their have at dwelling, they at minimum have these examples, and they can study and practice at household. Speak out loud and master pronunciation as well as sentence patterns.”
Why is it crucial to continue on to instruct and people today to proceed to understand how to speak Hawaiian language?
“I think the most crucial thing is that it’s genuinely about connection and identification, our love for this position, our aloha for every other, and creating that connection to our kūpuna,” claims Bartlett.
“A good deal of persons never have entry to ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi learning. Many men and women I have met individually experience separated from their heritage and tradition and I assume that if we can assist to join men and women, I believe which is a stunning matter.”
It has been stated by taking absent a language, you get away a lifestyle.
So conversely, by strengthening a language, you bolster a tradition.
Duolingo is aiding to do that with their absolutely free software, either by your cellular device or their web-site on the web.
No make any difference where by you are situated all around the environment or no matter what your stage in Hawaiian language, this application is for you.
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