Touch a place name... hear it pronounced!

Learning to pronounce Hawai‘i streets and places correctly is FUN

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On March 22, 2011 Speak Hawaiian Place Names version 1.1.1, for iOS, was released in the App Store on iTunes®.

Touch a place name and hear native speaker Ka‘upena Wong pronounce it on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad. Ka‘upena is a National Endowment for the Arts national heritage fellowship winner celebrating artistic excellence and cultural authenticity and diversity.

Over one hundred-sixty carefully chosen place and street names are presented along with definitions, proper Hawaiian diacritics and the correct audio pronunciation when touched.

Version 1.1.1 features a touch index to jump quickly between place names alphabetically. It also supports autorotation.

For pronunciation try to remember to sound every letter of Hawaiian individually. A is "uh" as in above or "ah" as in father, E is "eh" as in bed (soft) or "ay" as in they, I is "ee" as in police, O is "oh" as in vote, U is "oo" as in true. The glottal stop (‘okina) is an interruption as in "oh-oh."

For more help with pronunciation see our other Hawai‘i App with audio, Speak Hawaiian Phrases.

For a handy Hawaiian Pocket reference and dictionary with thousands of words consider the Touch Hawaiian Pocket Dictionary .

Visit TouchHawaiian.com to learn more about our Apps and publications for iOS devices.

Enjoy,

Coconut Info Software & Publishing
Making software in Hawai‘i in the shade since 1986.