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A simple daily practice for building ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi vocabulary
Decades of language research show the same pattern across every language studied. The 2,000 most used words cover roughly 95 percent of everyday speech and writing. Hit that milestone and you stop reaching for a dictionary every other sentence. You start understanding.
Hawaiian works the same way. The same core nouns, verbs, and connectors do the heavy lifting in conversation, mele, moʻolelo, and the news. Lock in those 2,000 and you have a real working command of the language.
This app tracks your path to all 2,000. Every word you master moves the needle.
The proven threshold for understanding Hawaiian fluently
A few building blocks for sentence structure.
People, places, and things. Often preceded by markers like ka or ke.
Actions that do something to a direct object, like ʻai (to eat).
Actions of movement or state that do not take a direct object, like hele (to go).
Words describing a state, condition, or quality, like maikaʻi (good) or nui (big).
The ʻokina (ʻ) is a glottal stop and acts as a consonant. The kahakō (ā) is a macron that elongates a vowel. Typing without them still counts.
This will erase all your progress.
Save your progress so it follows you across devices and survives clearing your cookies.
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Your progress syncs after every round. Your local progress stays on this device too as a backup.
We found progress in two places. Here's what happens when you continue:
Mastered words are kept on whichever side has them. For words at lower levels, the more recent attempt wins.