Hawaiian Language Learning

This course on Hawaiian teaches Hawaiian words and phrases to younger children. The focus is on simple words that can be put to daily use. Content is organized into 10 daily sessions, starting with learning new words and phrases and then reviewing them over subsequent sessions. This is an ideal way to start your child learning the Hawaiian language.

The Hawaiian kingdom was tiny, and the big world was huge. The 19th century was the high water mark of Western imperialism, worldwide, and the great powers were planting their flags across the Pacific. Hawai'i was in their sights. By late in the century, two strong American currents were running: one east from the islands, one west from the continent. Sugar plantations had become Hawai'i's biggest moneymaker. And many of the biggest names in the business were of American blood - the sons of missionaries, devout capitalists.

"A chuckle on every page!"~Reviewer The funny, wild and wacky crime-solving adventures of Kat Smith, a Secret Service Agent turned postmaster sleuth, and her cat Tiki in the tiny town of Ohia, on Maui in Hawaii. Meet colorful characters and solve crimes in a paradise setting you'll never want to leave in this immersive trilogy! "I'm Kat Smith, ex-Secret Service, current Postmaster...and these are my adventures solving crime in the village of Ohia on Maui." gs "This series is my favorite new addiction!"~ Reviewer

Read by the author and set in one of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, Kuleana is the story of an award-winning journalist’s effort to hold on to her family’s ancestral Hawaiian lands—and find herself along the way. “A powerful story of land, belonging, loss, and survival that...

"This series is my favorite new addiction! I want the Miss Fortune to escape to Maui, too!" ~ Reader My name is Kat Smith, and my new life as postmaster of the tiny town of Ohia on Maui was beginning to settle down. No new dead bodies had turned up for months! And then, the UPS guy spotted a little girl in the window of a house where no child was known to live. My former Secret Service training kicked in. I had to investigate, no matter what Mr. K, my boyfriend, attack cat Tiki, or Aunt Fae said about how far I'd go to find out what happened… to a child who might not even be real. "Pau ...

Progressing from the 1960s to the turbulent present, the novel begins on the island of O’ahu and centers on Ana, abandoned by her mother as a child. Raised by her extended family on the “lawless” Wai’anae coast, west of Honolulu, Ana, against all odds, becomes a physician. While tending victims of Hurricane ‘Iniki on the neighboring island of Kaua’i, she meets Nikolai, a Russian filmmaker with a violent and tragic past, who can confront reality only through his unique prism of lies. Yet he is dedicated to recording the ecological horrors in his motherland.

Use your mind's natural rhythm to learn a language with Rhythms Easy Hawaiian from EuroTalk. It's naturally easier to learn something when it's set to rhythmic music, so that is exactly what we've done. Rhythms puts your mind painlessly to work: you don't even need to focus! Simple words and phrases are set to a varied pattern of rhythms and music designed to help you learn and to keep you engaged so that you won't just switch off after five minutes.

Meg Butler sets sail on the Grand Voyager on a luxury world cruise, eager to visit 30 countries before she's 30. But she hasn't planned on running into murder! The ship is hosting a Bingo tournament for the length of the cruise. Several passengers are competing for the grand prize which is rumored to be in six figures. Meg runs into a friendly older man who boasts of being a skilled player. He has developed a fool proof strategy that is guaranteed to win him big money. Meg is warmed by his affectionate manner toward her and feels he is the father figure she has always yearned for. Disaster ...

Spanning several centuries of history in the Pacific, The Legends and Myths of Hawaiʻi: Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange People is a collection of Hawaiian stories that were preserved through the ages by oral tradition and documented for posterity by King David Kalākaua in 1887. This massive tome recalls the tales of chiefs and kings, explorers and pirates, prophets, sorceresses, and renegades. This is the first in a series of 22 parts.

Beneath the ash and ruins of Pompeii, archaeologists uncover a discovery that could shake the foundations of the world: the earliest known New Testament writings, lost for nearly two thousand years since the eruption of Vesuvius. But before the secrets can be revealed, the priceless texts are stolen—setting off a deadly global chase. The trail leads from the shadowed canals of Amsterdam to the turbulent waters off Oahu’s west coast, to a remote valley and beach named Makaha—“savage” in Hawaiian, and fitting for the outlaws who once ruled its shores. In a desperate race against ...

This audiobook offers an overview of different aspects of Hawaiian and contains a Hawaiian language course at three levels of complexity—basic, intermediate, and advanced together with review material. This is an ideal way to get more out of your trip to Hawaii with a better understanding of both the language and culture after listening to this audiobook.

"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. Starting with the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy in 1893 and continuing through the Spanish-American War and the Cold War and into our own time, the United States has not hesitated to overthrow governments that stood in the way of its political and economic goals.

In 1893, Liliuokalani, the Queen of Hawaii, was deposed and five years later her nation became an incorporated territory of the United States. Published shortly after these momentous events, her book Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is an incredibly personal history of the islands that she was born to rule. Liliuokalani covers from her birth in 1838 through the reigns of her forebears to her own turbulent time as Queen of the Hawaiian Islands.  

Hawaiian Shamanistic Healing explores the techniques of several renowned healing systems, including Kahi Loa, Heartworks Lomi, Big Island Massage, Traditional Hawaiian Touch Medicine, and Temple Style Lomi. Join authors Wayne Kealohi Powell and Patricia Lynn Miller, longtime students and practitioners of Hawaiian bodywork and shamanism, as they show you how to create space for miracles and open up to the healing energy of the divine.

Entdecken Sie in der Ausgabe 10/2022 von "Spotlight Audio" einige wirklich magische Orte in Großbritannien. In "A Day in My Life" lernen Sie eine Perückenmacherin kennen und sehen ihre Wunderwerke. Um beim Thema Wandel zu bleiben - könnte ein Ausflug zu einem geheimnisvollen Leuchtturm eine Frau wieder auf den rechten Weg bringen? Erfahren Sie mehr in der Kurzgeschichte. Englisch lernen mit "Spotlight Audio".

Auf Hawaii kann man sich fühlen wie im Paradies. Hören Sie hier Interessantes über Geschichte und Kultur der schönen Pazifikinseln...

「カタカナ英会話」は、遊び感覚で、覚えやすく発音し易いカタカナ発音で学べる英会話教材です。

今まで『外国人が話している事は何となく解るのに、返事ができない』『英語は発音が難しいし、話すのはちょっと恥ずかしい』と、既存の英会話教材を途中で諦めてしまった方でも”カタカナ発音“で気軽に勉強が出来ます。

この “カタカナ発音”は、映画で聞くようなかっこいい発音ではありません。
ですが、大手商社で30年海外勤務をしていた人の監修の下、ネイティブスピーカーに通じる発音ですので、”カタカナ発音”でも自信を持って話すことで、相手にしっかり思いを伝えることが出来ます。

”○○しながら”聞き流す勉強法は多いですが、ネイティブ発音の後に、日本人が聞き取りやすいカタカナ発音をリピートしますので、ネイティブ発音でよくわからなかったセンテンスを簡単に再確認しながら勉強することが可能です。

センテンスは、実際に使えるものをより短いもので、すぐ活用できることを目的にご用意しています。

今回は「もしも旅行先でかっこいい異性にあったら？...

「カタカナ英会話」は、遊び感覚で、覚えやすく発音し易いカタカナ発音で学べる英会話教材です。

今まで『外国人が話している事は何となく解るのに、返事ができない』『英語は発音が難しいし、話すのはちょっと恥ずかしい』と、既存の英会話教材を途中で諦めてしまった方でも”カタカナ発音“で気軽に勉強が出来ます。

この “カタカナ発音”は、映画で聞くようなかっこいい発音ではありません。
ですが、大手商社で30年海外勤務をしていた人の監修の下、ネイティブスピーカーに通じる発音ですので、”カタカナ発音”でも自信を持って話すことで、相手にしっかり思いを伝えることが出来ます。

”○○しながら”聞き流す勉強法は多いですが、ネイティブ発音の後に、日本人が聞き取りやすいカタカナ発音をリピートしますので、ネイティブ発音でよくわからなかったセンテンスを簡単に再確認しながら勉強することが可能です。
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