My Drops #streak is unbroken for the month of March! Yes technically it’s a 1388-day streak overall, but usually my monthly calendar has a green lighting bolt on one or two (or 3 or 4) of the days, meaning I used a “streak rescue.” #languageDrops #languageLearning
To prepare you for #stPatricksDay tomorrow:
ʻIhi pua kea == shamrock
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“I've been learning with Drops for 1000 days.” #languageDrops #streak
Kūlanakauhale == town
This is one of my Drops vocabulary words, which I have trouble with (such a long word!) Duolingo uses kaona. #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #town #languageDrops #duolingo #HPR #HawaiianPublicRadio #LeilaniPoliʻahu
https://www.hawaiipublicradio.org/hawaiian-word-of-the-day-february-18th
Hawaiian Word of the Day: February 18th

Although many people use kaona to mean town, you may also say kūlanakauhale for town or city.

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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 #challenge #badges ! #languageDrops
Hawaiian word for the day— cauliflower! According to Drops, it is kāpiki pua! But— (1/3) #languageDrops #hwotd #hawaiianWordOfTheDay #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #hawaiian #cauliflower
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.” #languageDrops has taught me “ʻĀina Pākē” while #uTalk teaches “Kina” — l just lost another unit of trust in Drops   #ŌleloHawaiʻi #ʻōlelo #hawaiʻi #OleloHawaii #LearnHawaiian #olelo #hawaii
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)
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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.”
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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.
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