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Moani<p>To prepare you for <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/stPatricksDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stPatricksDay</span></a> tomorrow:<br>ʻIhi pua kea == shamrock<br> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hwotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hwotd</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiianWordOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiianWordOfTheDay</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/shamrock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>shamrock</span></a><br>Screenshot from Drops <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languageDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageDrops</span></a></p>
Moani<p>“I've been learning with Drops for 1000 days.” <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languageDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageDrops</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/streak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>streak</span></a></p>
Moani<p>Kūlanakauhale == town <br>This is one of my Drops vocabulary words, which I have trouble with (such a long word!) Duolingo uses kaona. <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hwotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hwotd</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiianWordOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiianWordOfTheDay</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/town" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>town</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languageDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageDrops</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/duolingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>duolingo</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/HPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HPR</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/HawaiianPublicRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HawaiianPublicRadio</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/LeilaniPoli%CA%BBahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeilaniPoliʻahu</span></a><br> <a href="https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian-word-of-the-day-february-18th" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian</span><span class="invisible">-word-of-the-day-february-18th</span></a></p>
Moani<p>It’s strange that Drops has a September challenge which I completed by doing a lesson a day in October, but I won’t complain, I love these <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/challenge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>challenge</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/badges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>badges</span></a> ! <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languageDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageDrops</span></a></p>
Moani<p>Hawaiian word for the day— cauliflower! According to Drops, it is kāpiki pua! But— (1/3) <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languageDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageDrops</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hwotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hwotd</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiianWordOfTheDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiianWordOfTheDay</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/OleloHawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OleloHawaii</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/LearnHawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnHawaiian</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiian</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/cauliflower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cauliflower</span></a></p>
Moani<p>I used the term “ʻĀina Pākē” in my Hawaiian class and kumu said that is fine if you want to say “the land of the Chinese” but if you want to say “China” the name of the country is “Kina.” <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languageDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageDrops</span></a> has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/uTalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uTalk</span></a> teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops :blobcatangery: <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/%C5%8CleloHawai%CA%BBi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ŌleloHawaiʻi</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/%CA%BB%C5%8Dlelo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ʻōlelo</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawai%CA%BBi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiʻi</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/OleloHawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OleloHawaii</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/LearnHawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnHawaiian</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/olelo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>olelo</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaii</span></a></p>
Moani<p>In Hawaiian there’s also rules about whether to use “ka” or “ke” for “the,” and similarly there are exceptions. For example since “ʻeke” starts with the letter ʻokina, it ought to use “ka” but it actually uses “ke” instead. It would be nice if Drops also was able to help drill the correct article to use in Hawaiian! (3/3)<br><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/drops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drops</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languageDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageDrops</span></a><br><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiianLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiianLanguage</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/LearnHawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnHawaiian</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiian</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/spanish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spanish</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/teabag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>teabag</span></a></p>
Moani<p>In Spanish there are exceptions to the rule of thumb that if it ends in the letter “o”, it uses “el”, for example, it’s “la mano” not “el mano.”<br><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/drops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drops</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languageDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageDrops</span></a><br><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiianLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiianLanguage</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/LearnHawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnHawaiian</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiian</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/spanish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spanish</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hand</span></a></p>
Moani<p>I started the Spanish course in Drops and noticed that it includes the definite article with each noun, for example “el pan” (literally, “the bread”). This is helpful for the language learner because in Spanish “the” depends on the “gender” of the noun. However, the Hawaiian course doesn’t show the associated definite article.<br><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/drops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drops</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/languageDrops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languageDrops</span></a><br><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiianLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiianLanguage</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/LearnHawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnHawaiian</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/hawaiian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hawaiian</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/spanish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spanish</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/bread" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bread</span></a></p>