Spoken Hawaiian
Description:
This Hawaiian language text, intended for self-learning as well as classroom use, presents the principal conversational and grammatical patterns of the language in 67 lessons, each containing English-Hawaiian dialogues. Emphasis is given to idiomatic speech, and a vocabulary of approximately 800 words, selected on the basis of frequency of usage and cultural importance, is introduced.
The frequent humor of the lessons makes Elbert's Spoken Hawaiian an enjoyable learning experience. Also noteworthy is the author's inclusion of old Hawaiian in the text - legends, songs, stories - to enable the student to read the rich Hawaiian traditional literature in the vernacular language.
The illustrations by noted artist Jean Charlot are a charming and amusing complement to the text.
Spoken Hawaiian will help the student not only to read and speak the language, but at the same time to appreciate the rich heritage of the Hawaiian past and its literature.
of the sixty-seven lessons is a sample dialog in Hawaiian with English translation.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780870222160
Related Books
Frequently Asked Questions about Spoken Hawaiian
The price for the book starts from $11.51 on Amazon and is available from 24 sellers at the moment.
At BookScouter, the prices for the book start at $9.91. Feel free to explore the offers for the book in used or new condition from various booksellers, aggregated on our website.
If you’re interested in selling back the Spoken Hawaiian book, you can always look up BookScouter for the best deal. BookScouter checks 30+ buyback vendors with a single search and gives you actual information on buyback pricing instantly.
As for the Spoken Hawaiian book, the best buyback offer comes from and is $ for the book in good condition.
The Spoken Hawaiian book is in very low demand now as the rank for the book is 815,929 at the moment. It's a very low rank, and the book has minimal sales on Amazon.
The highest price to sell back the Spoken Hawaiian book within the last three months was on November 25 and it was $4.05.